ImgMount a VmWare VMDK Image with DoxBox-X or/and DosBox-Staging \ VOGONS

ImgMount a VmWare VMDK Image with DoxBox-X or/and DosBox-Staging

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First post, by df12

Posted on 2025-07-28, 16:29

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Hi,

how can I mount an vdmk (Vmware) image in DosBox-X and DosBox Staging? My problem is, that imgmount can not find the geomety data. I have some split images of 4GB.

1imgburn c c:\test\test.vdmk -t hdd - -size ????????

1# Disk DescriptorFile
2version=1
3encoding="windows-1252"
4CID=XXXXXXXX
5parentCID=ffffffff
6createType="twoGbMaxExtentSparse"
7
8# Extent description
9RW 8323072 SPARSE "Retro-cl1-s001.vmdk"
10RW 8323072 SPARSE "Retro-cl1-s002.vmdk"
11RW 4325376 SPARSE "Retro-cl1-s003.vmdk"
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13# The Disk Data Base 
14#DDB
15
16ddb.adapterType = "ide"
17ddb.deletable = "true"
18ddb.geometry.cylinders = "16383"
19ddb.geometry.heads = "16"
20ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"
21ddb.longContentID = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
22ddb.uuid = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
23ddb.virtualHWVersion = "21"
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Reply 1 of 1, by DosFreak

Posted on 2025-07-28, 17:23

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This forum is for the original DOSBox which does not support vmdk. For DOSBox forks you'll need to ask on their respective github issuer tracker sites.
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