From owner-freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Thu Nov 10 12:32:14 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DA2AC38477 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 12:32:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tech-lists@zyxst.net) Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0564E37A for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 12:32:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tech-lists@zyxst.net) Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 373DF2148D for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 07:32:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 10 Nov 2016 07:32:12 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=zyxst.net; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:message-id :mime-version:subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=m4aV6hEONymNG/E0C7FFRBVmjio=; b=CGkwHF SC1pgTP7FxqfyH078B2VI/4WMP8eYx2ZgpTEsjVho2MnNs5uv6n6zTbK/qUAjjQY OGAGZweH7M+zjiLavvJfmMGE0LiGCfiGq64bCjdbJhvvaQTgWT6mJqwSwCyL8iAX ZIS/7mRkwP1mG1pOYFyIRpXrLOsliVQCWirTs= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:message-id:mime-version:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=m4aV6hEONymNG/ E0C7FFRBVmjio=; b=A4Jds6myd6d39497AiRnv8URQ1/elRjYWgnGxyZLrDWTB+ 4Da/zbA31FmtharckyiCin69iSNpGjEXenzURAMXmBgbT0qKMhenB2Se0cRGAQTd V9w6kzmvK/XgF7I7rYUYZotMD32mMI4J7thKIwzYP0fQeGEH2zPOpB2H6l/NU= X-ME-Sender: X-Sasl-enc: VoCSQ2q4aKyBl/n9Q1xNsUm5YseZEhfMdJi5+OfouoFS 1478781131 Received: from pumpkin.growveg.org (pumpkin.growveg.org [82.70.91.101]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C36DCF29CC for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 07:32:11 -0500 (EST) To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org From: tech-lists Subject: mounting an ubuntu 14.04 bhyve image as a filesystem for editing Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 12:32:07 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 12:32:14 -0000 Hello list, [originally sent to virtualization@ but got no replies, probably because, thinking about it, the fact that it's a bhyve image is incidental] [snipped stuff about bhyve] Is there a way of taking an ubuntu VM image that normally runs as a bhyve guest, mounting it on some mountpoint on the freebsd host and directly editing the files within it? Alternatively, is there a way of making grub boot the image into single-user-mode like one can with freebsd? Many thanks, -- J.