(Yes this thread is a bit old but now I may have a solution...)
In article <[email protected]> you write:
> 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/
Well that looks like major work to port, but there is a much simpler
fusefs tool in debian called vdfuse that I now finally made a port
of. I don't know how stable this is on FreeBSD or if there still
may be bugs, so please give this a good test and post your results
here. Here's a simple example:
# vdfuse -r -f ~nox/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/win7-64.vdi /mnt
# mdconfig -a -f /mnt/Partition2 -o readonly
md0
# mount -o ro -t ntfs /dev/md0 /mnt2
# ls -l /mnt2
...
# umount /mnt2
# mdconfig -d -u 0
# umount /mnt
I was also able to write onto ntfs using sysutils/fusefs-ntfs, tho
I had to apply a fix to sysutils/fusefs-kmod from this PR first to
get rid of a panic:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=149674
# vdfuse -a -f ~nox/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/win7-64.vdi /mnt
# mdconfig -a -f /mnt/EntireDisk
# ntfs-3g /dev/md0s2 /mnt2
# ls -l /mnt2
...
Of course only do any of this while the guest is completely shut
down... (That's because at least all the `regular' filesystems
cannot be mounted more than once at a time or you'll get corruption.)
And here is the shar:
http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/virtualbox-ose-fuse.shar
Happy testing! :)
Juergen
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