mounting vmfs on windows

While FUSE is native to Linux, Windows ports (such as or Dokan ) allow for user-mode file systems.

Mounting a VMFS (Virtual Machine File System) volume on Windows is a specialized task. Because VMFS is a proprietary clustered file system used by VMware ESXi, Windows cannot natively recognize or mount it.

StarWind offers a VMFS driver for Windows. It works with VMFS5 and VMFS6.