From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 6 03:46:30 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BF9C1065670 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 03:46:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA6528FC15 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 03:46:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws6 with SMTP id 6so7131082vws.13 for ; Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:46:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=jl9W2phA1Eg9vIoNxjFCxrsRx35YZoG/iy5U2E5W+x4=; b=aLWGUxUKyZ+GWcZndKNwelgcucHDafDDWqrQNKQxZjI6LIo8PAs/xYvYTkjeeFmY08 uo/CU8Cbfhb7ZMZN6dZ/dvGiCiluD/lT12CoXlQaFE49tvKG7hMhr8rKjWjVEGXaN3qj 9GXKELDhs+T9p7Gb+knaXX90QAvVJeKRmfZGU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=QnemoJjC4LJ4GHrz+XU9W8/fUqiK8Kebb2Oawqupc40bAyUS+ruoA/pwO3ox2s3fy6 ZxKufpqTWW374KMYQZD/HcBIP8qagEmIH2NITw75qmKG91aoz5QmnZz7Wkb1WdRmzQGH wKfYc7LkVEmsm4Fst7KMrwCCWSJlI8Lhf2Si0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.236.76 with SMTP id kj12mr2077491qcb.226.1278386423273; Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:20:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.86.12 with HTTP; Mon, 5 Jul 2010 20:20:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 22:20:23 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Warren Block Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting VirtualBox vdi files 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 03:46:30 -0000 On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 9:58 PM, 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. > 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