Is there any way to view the contents of a vmdk file from Python, and to be able to read files from it? (I have no need to write to it). If not, is there any way to mount a vmdk file on a host machine, or generally any other way to look at a vmdk file without attaching it to a VM and running it?
Is there a way to force Django models to pass a field to a MySQL function every time the model data is read or loaded? To clarify what I mean in SQL, I want the Django model to produce something like ...