How to open a Vmware VMDK linux guest disk on Windows?

I have CentOS Linux 7.6.1810 64bit guest running in VMWare Workstation 12.1 in Windows. I simply want to read/mount the CentOS root file system in the VMDK directly in Windows to grab some files once in a while. How do I do this? I've tried everything. Linux Reader says "Unallocated space" when I tried that. I have no other ideas. Nothing ever works.

This is a screenshot of me trying to open it in Linux Reader.
https://ibb.co/f0TPdVX

That's more of a Windows issue, isn't it?

From memory -- I'm at home and the next Windows installation, I have access to, is 20 km away -- is to use VMware Workstation. Goto the entry "File" in the menu bar, select the entry "Map Virtual Disks" in the drop-down menu. Follow the instructions on screen.

Another possibility is to use OSFmount. The tool is gratis, but not free (IANAL). According to the table "Supported File Extensions", OSFmount can read VMware Images and mount them as an RAM drive. It can not write VMware Images.

I'm not sure, if you can ran the guest OS AND mount the disk image.

The page at the link below explains various scenarios for sharing using VMWare including the one you want which is about half way down the page, use Samba.

https://www.vmware.com/support/ws3/d..._running9.html