From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 11 18:52:14 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D3B7106566C for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:52:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de) Received: from smtp.kn-bremen.de (gelbbaer.kn-bremen.de [78.46.108.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 396328FC08 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:52:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kn-bremen.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id 324F21E00821; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:52:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from triton8.kn-bremen.de (noident@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o8BIjLRO002153; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:45:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nox@triton8.kn-bremen.de) Received: (from nox@localhost) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id o8BIjJtB002152; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:45:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nox) From: Juergen Lock Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:45:19 +0200 To: Warren Block Message-ID: <20100911184519.GA2100@triton8.kn-bremen.de> References: <20100706032057.GA15827@stlux503.dsto.defence.gov.au> <201009022024.o82KOVni007042@triton8.kn-bremen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, Juergen Lock Subject: Re: CFT: vdfuse port (was: Re: Mounting VirtualBox vdi files [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]) X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:52:14 -0000 On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 07:44:37PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Juergen Lock wrote: > > > ...there is a much simpler fusefs tool in debian called vdfuse that I > > now finally made a port of. I don't know how stable this is on > > FreeBSD or if there still may be bugs, so please give this a good test > > and post your results here. Here's a simple example: > > > > # vdfuse -r -f ~nox/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/win7-64.vdi /mnt > > # mdconfig -a -f /mnt/Partition2 -o readonly > > md0 > > # mount -o ro -t ntfs /dev/md0 /mnt2 > > # ls -l /mnt2 > > ... > > # umount /mnt2 > > # mdconfig -d -u 0 > > # umount /mnt > > It works for a .vdi of a UFS drive. The BSD partitions show up on the > md0 device (md0a, etc). Just a trivial test, but looks promising! Yep, those kind of tests worked for me too, I just wasn't sure if it also survives `heavy use', i.e. reading/writing/using files much on the mounted fs.es... Thanx, :) Juergen