File System Support

Traditional Windows file systems (including FAT, FAT32, and NTFS) are supported. Linux file systems (including ext2, ext3, ext4) are supported if the proxy machine supports them. VixMntapi depends on an operating system for file attributes such as compression, encryption, hidden files, ACL, and alternate streams. If a vixMntapi-linked application runs on a virtual machine that supports these attributes, vixMntapi can support them. Windows basic volumes and simple dynamic volumes are supported for writing, but spanned, striped (RAID-0), mirrored (RAID-1) and parity (RAID-5) volumes are supported read-only for VixMntapi.

You must open a disk set read/write to obtain the OS information for dynamic volume types including LDM and LVM. If you cannot open a base disk read/write, create a child disk in front, and open it read/write. In a multi-boot setup, only the first entry #0 is opened.

The order of mounting is important. For instance, mount top-level directories before subdirectories, and drives with dependencies after drives that they depend on. Mount points are not enumerated, nor are they restored. When you mount one volume, the other volumes are not implicitly mounted also.