Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 22:20:23 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting VirtualBox vdi files Message-ID: <AANLkTilqmrQp1zi656FZqX7VwPZv38X41rjquTC2sjNI@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007052053090.9243@wonkity.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007052053090.9243@wonkity.com>
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On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > Is there any hope of a utility like mdconfig that would allow mounting a > vdi file directly? > > There's a tantalizingly-named ImageMounter/VBoxFUSE, which is probably not > what that implies. > > It would be great to be able to access vdi files without having to waste > time and space converting them to raw image files. > Not that I'm aware of, all tools that do so depend on having a fixed size image. You could use a sparse file for the raw format :P I use some other methods for getting data from VM's to host and other machines. One place I do work for is a linux shop with a couple Win 2k8 VM's. All disk's are mapped to LVM's including 2k8's "dedicated" backup drive. The backup drive(lvm) is then mapped via kpartx and mounted read-only in the host system so tarsnap archives can be generated against it. I actually don't know how you'd do this under FreeBSD since I'm not aware of any equivalent functionality to kpartx under FBSD. -- Adam Vande More
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