From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 6 03:21:04 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 115B21065670 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 03:21:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wilkinsa@dsto.defence.gov.au) Received: from digger1.defence.gov.au (digger1.defence.gov.au [203.5.217.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6958A8FC14 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 03:21:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ednmsw520.dsto.defence.gov.au (ednmsw520.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.68.60]) by digger1.defence.gov.au (DSTO/DSTO) with ESMTP id o663FpLb028962; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 12:45:51 +0930 (CST) Received: from ednex510.dsto.defence.gov.au (ednex510.dsto.defence.gov.au) by ednmsw520.dsto.defence.gov.au (Clearswift SMTPRS 5.3.2) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 12:51:01 +0930 Received: from stlex511.dsto.defence.gov.au ([203.6.60.49]) by ednex510.dsto.defence.gov.au with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 6 Jul 2010 12:50:58 +0930 Received: from stlux550.dsto.defence.gov.au ([203.6.60.61]) by stlex511.dsto.defence.gov.au with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Tue, 6 Jul 2010 11:20:57 +0800 Received: from stlux550.dsto.defence.gov.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by stlux550.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o663KvJ5016078; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 11:20:57 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from wilkinsa@stlux550.dsto.defence.gov.au) Received: (from wilkinsa@localhost) by stlux550.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o663KvBN016077; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 11:20:57 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from wilkinsa) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 11:20:57 +0800 From: "Wilkinson, Alex" To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, emulation@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100706032057.GA15827@stlux503.dsto.defence.gov.au> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, emulation@freebsd.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organisation: Defence Science Technology Organisation X-Message-Flag: "Please Restore Line Breaks If Necessary" User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Jul 2010 03:20:57.0728 (UTC) FILETIME=[403AC800:01CB1CBA] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-8.0.0.1285-6.000.1038-17488.003 X-TM-AS-Result: No--4.024500-0.000000-31 X-TM-AS-User-Approved-Sender: Yes X-TM-AS-User-Blocked-Sender: No Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: 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: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 03:21:04 -0000 0n Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 08:58:58PM -0600, Warren Block 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. Try: http://libguestfs.org/ -Alex IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email.