2. Since double clicking the VMDKMounter application did nothing, I rebooted the Mac with OS X 10.8.3 to no avail.
3. Then I found that I could mount the VMware disk image that lives at
/Users/~/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Mac OS X Server 10.6 64-bit.vmwarevm
simply dry drag and drop over VMDKMounter. It mounted the disk "Mac OS X Server 10.6.x".
To use VMDKMounter you ctrl-click (right-click) the target Virtual Machine Package or .vmdk virtual hard disk and select Open With > VMDKMounter
5. But DiskWarrior 4.4 gave the following error when trying to rebuid its directory:
DiskWarrior encountered an unexpected error while attempting to rebuild the directory of the disk "flat".
Rebuilding was cancelled and the disk was not modified.
Restart from the DiskWarrior disk and try rebuilding again. If you report this error, please mention the error code (2150, 5011).
So, is there a way of rebuilding the directory of a VMware virtual disk with Mac OS X Server 10.6.8?
Thanks.
Well at this point the only other option I see is to temporarily attach the target .vmdk virtual hard disk to an OS X Virtual Machine that has DiskWarrior installed and scan it that way. Needless to say if it does not work or is not capable of repairing it under this use case scenario then I'd say you're out of luck and time to build a new Virtual Machine and in the future keep it properly backed up! 