Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 11:00:55 +0100 From: Edward Tomasz =?utf-8?Q?Napiera=C5=82a?= <trasz@FreeBSD.org> To: Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount bhyve image Message-ID: <20160308100055.GB1872@brick.home> In-Reply-To: <56DC73CA.7080207@freebsd.org> References: <20160306145730.GA88508@potato.growveg.org> <56DC73CA.7080207@freebsd.org>
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On 0306T1315, Allan Jude wrote: > On 2016-03-06 09:57, John wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > Can a bhyve image be mounted to the filesystem? Not an active image, I > > mean, say one has a problem loading a bhyve instance. Is it possible > > to mount the image as one would for example mount a cdrom image as per > > md(8) ? If it is possible, what are the parameters please? > > > > thanks, > > Yes, you mount it the same way as a cdrom image: > > mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /path/to/image > > then: mount -t <filesystem type> /dev/md0p1 /mnt > > note that depending on your partitioning scheme, the exact device name > will different. md0p1 is the first GPT partition, it might be MBR > instead, which would be md0s1, etc. Or attach them using mdconfig (just as described above; note it can be shortened to "mdconfig /path/to/image") and use autofs media support, which takes care of figuring out the partitioning scheme and mounting stuff. See https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/usb-disks.html, the last section.
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