On 06/02/11 12:21, jdd wrote:
> Le 02/06/2011 21:06, JD a écrit :
>
>> I downloaded the source and tried to build it.
> may be try an opensuse rpm? ,I also use variable size disks
>
>> I do not have a fixed size vdi. Mine is variable size, and would
>> like to convert it to fixed size so I can use this script.
> don't know.
>
> It should be pretty easy to figure out the vdi structure (may be it's
> described in the source code or in help). one have just to figure out
> the virtualbox offset to the beginning of the disk. After that a fdisk
> -l in the guest gives you the ofset in the disk.
fdisk -l does not give offset of logical drive from start
of the file. The file contains lots of structures meaningful
only to VB, and you have to skip all that before fdisk can
give you meaningful info. So VB presents to the kernel
something that looks just like a hard drive.

> mounting loop ro is harmless
>
> jdd
>
>


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