Windows – mount a Linux-formatted VMWare disk image from Windows

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I need to update some files inside of a VMWare disk image from the Windows host machine.
The virtual disks are formatted for Linux (ext3).

Is it possible to mount an image so that it appears as a disk in Windows?

Or alternatively, is there some application that offers a file browser that can be used to access the image (similar to how WinSCP looks like).

There will be no virtual machines running while I do this, I can shut them down or unmount the disks beforehand.

I'm not 100% sure but you could use VMware Workstation 5.5 Disk Mount Utility to mount the file and http://www.fs-driver.org/ to access the ext3 filesystem.

I have used Virtual Floppy Drive in the past. Im fairly certain it supports .img files.

The answer was to mount /dev/sr0 instead of /dev/cdrom. So the following command worked:

sudo mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom

I had to create /mnt/cdrom with mkdir for this to work.