Several existing solutions allow Windows 10 to access VMFS, but they have limitations:
In this paper, we presented a comprehensive approach to enable Windows 10 to read VMFS. We discussed the existing solutions and their limitations and presented a detailed design and implementation of a Windows 10 driver that can read VMFS. The implemented driver provides a seamless experience for accessing and managing VMware virtual machines from within Windows 10. This work can be extended to provide write support for VMFS and to enable other operating systems to access VMFS. windows 10 read vmfs
(Advanced) You can boot a Linux live USB or run a Linux VM on Windows 10 with physical disk passthrough. Linux has built-in, read-only VMFS drivers (via vmfs-tools or open-vm-tools ). From there, you can copy files over the network. Several existing solutions allow Windows 10 to access
The most direct method for reading VMFS on Windows 10 is the use of user-mode file system drivers. These applications act as a translation layer, interpreting the VMFS metadata and presenting it to the Windows Explorer interface as a mounted volume. This work can be extended to provide write