Extract BIOS from VMware

VMware products store various BIOS and other important data files using resources on Windows and in extra sections on other platforms. With the arrival or Workstation 10 and Fusion 4, these resources can now be easily extracted from the command line using the vmware-vmx executable, which is responsible for actually running the guest.

Here are the options:

The “-e” flag specifies which named resource to extract from the executable. As of writing the current the list of resources that can be extracted are:

Here is a BASH script for OS X to extract all the files.