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So i have been playing around with so called VHD based image for a while. Here came the requirement, where i needed to mount this image and push in some keys... This is the solution i found
Step 1: Install the virtualbox fuse package which is required to open up this vhd image into its raw form
# apt-get install virtualbox-fuse
Step 2: Open up VHD image
# vdfuse -w -f <path to vhd image> <path to mount point>
Step 3: Check the extracted Files
# ls <path to mount point>
Here it could list either
# EntireDisk
Lets mark this CASE 1
(or)
# EntireDisk Partition1 Partion2 . ...
Depending on the number of partitions made on the Disk while creating and lets mark this as CASE 2
Step 4: Mount the extracted RAW image
# mount <path to vhd image>/EntireDisk <path to one more new mount point path>
In case of CASE 1
(or)
# mount <path to vhd image>/Partition1 <path to one more new mount point>
In case of CASE 2
Partition here could be the one you wanted to mount
Step 5: unmounting the IMG and VHD after usage
# umount <path to mounted IMG partition>
# umount <path to vhd image>
Hope this is useful for all of you who see this :)
So i have been playing around with so called VHD based image for a while. Here came the requirement, where i needed to mount this image and push in some keys... This is the solution i found
Step 1: Install the virtualbox fuse package which is required to open up this vhd image into its raw form
# apt-get install virtualbox-fuse
Step 2: Open up VHD image
# vdfuse -w -f <path to vhd image> <path to mount point>
Step 3: Check the extracted Files
# ls <path to mount point>
Here it could list either
# EntireDisk
Lets mark this CASE 1
(or)
# EntireDisk Partition1 Partion2 . ...
Depending on the number of partitions made on the Disk while creating and lets mark this as CASE 2
Step 4: Mount the extracted RAW image
# mount <path to vhd image>/EntireDisk <path to one more new mount point path>
In case of CASE 1
(or)
# mount <path to vhd image>/Partition1 <path to one more new mount point>
In case of CASE 2
Partition here could be the one you wanted to mount
Step 5: unmounting the IMG and VHD after usage
# umount <path to mounted IMG partition>
# umount <path to vhd image>
Hope this is useful for all of you who see this :)
Thanks for this information! I'm woundering, would it be possible to dd Partition1 onto a partition on a physical disk? I.e.
ReplyDelete# dd if=/Partition1 of=/dev/sdb2 bs=1M
?
Thanks.
I know its a very late reply.... Yes you can copy the contents of Partition1 to a physical device provided the disk has enough space in it
Deleteon my system it didn't work until I installed another package. For example I didn't have a /etc/fuse.conf
ReplyDeleteAfter installing ntfsprogs everything worked fine
apt-get install ntfsprogs
virtualbox-fuse isn't available anymore in Ubuntu 16.04.
ReplyDeleteBut there is a new way to mount a VHD:
sudo apt-get install libguestfs-tools
Check the VHD first, to get information about the partitions in the image.
virt-filesystems --long --filesystems -a FreeDOS_1.2.vhd
Make a mount point in userspace f.i. /home/username/vhd
Mount it:
guestmount -a FreeDOS_1.2.vhd -m /dev/sda1 /home/username/vhd
Afterwards unmount it with:
guestunmount /home/username/vhd
Works for me, thanks!
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