Type Alias VmdkFileReader 

pub type VmdkFileReader = VmdkReader<Box<dyn ReadSeek + Send>>;

A VMDK reader opened from a file-system path, with an erased inner type.

Returned by VmdkReader::open_path; supports all formats including multi-file flat extents that cannot be opened from a single stream.

Aliased Type

pub struct VmdkFileReader { /* private fields */ }

Implementations

impl VmdkFileReader

pub fn extent_dependencies(path: &Path) -> Result<Vec<PathBuf>, VmdkError>

List the companion extent files this VMDK depends on, resolved relative to the descriptor’s directory.

For a self-contained binary VMDK (monolithicSparse, streamOptimized, …) this is empty — the single file holds everything. For multi-file formats (twoGbMaxExtent*, monolithicFlat, vmfsSparse, seSparse, custom, …) it returns every backing extent file in descriptor order. ZERO/NOACCESS extents carry no file and are excluded.

Forensic use: enumerate what must be collected before the disk can be read, without opening (or even possessing) the extents themselves.

pub fn open_path(path: &Path) -> Result<Self, VmdkError>

Open any VMDK format from a file-system path.

Unlike VmdkReader::open, this constructor handles text-descriptor VMDKs (twoGbMaxExtentFlat) that reference external extent files, as well as binary VMDKs that can be opened from a single stream.