Loading a VMDK file as a disk in Ghost

Products

• Ghost Solution Suite

Issue/Introduction

How to load a VMDK file as a disk in Ghost.

Resolution

Notes:

• Ghost 11.0 and earlier were not designed to work with virtual machines and are not supported.
• Only Ghost 11.5 and newer have been tested and are known to work.
• Please use VMWare 6 or newer and only the Workstation version.
• VM disks drive numbers start at 50.

Follow the below instructions:

1. To load a VMDK file as a disk you will need to run Ghost32.exe with the switch -ad=
2. From a command line, type:
   "C:\Program Files\Symantec\Ghost\ghost32.exe" -ad=C:\\.vmdk
   
   
3. Ghost will open and the VM can now be selected as a disk.

The Vmdk disk is listed as a drive 50 disk and can be chosen to then take an image of or restore an image to. (see screen shot below.)