Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 22:21:48 -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: <AANLkTik6z7TEqMQzfvK5b2vW11FT5TUpakG_AO4E_8mS@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilqmrQp1zi656FZqX7VwPZv38X41rjquTC2sjNI@mail.gmail.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007052053090.9243@wonkity.com> <AANLkTilqmrQp1zi656FZqX7VwPZv38X41rjquTC2sjNI@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>wrote: > 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. > Actually just had another idea if you're using ZFS. Just put the raw image on it's on FS, and set it compressed. Problem solved ;) -- Adam Vande More
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