On 06/02/11 13:07, jdd wrote: > Le 02/06/2011 22:00, JD a écrit : > >> fdisk -l does not give offset of logical drive from start >> of the file. The file contains lots of structures meaningful >> only to VB > not sure it's true as vb can use raw disks, vdfuse do just what I > said, as you have the vdfuse sources you can guess where is the > offset. either it's constant or there is a pointer to the disk on the > very first bytes of the file. using the vb library is probably > mandatory for variable size disks where data is stored in various > locations > > > vdfuse: > > DESCRIPTION: This Fuse module uses the VirtualBox access library to > open a VirtualBox supported VD image file and mount it as a Fuse file > system. The mount point contains a flat directory containing the > files EntireDisk, Partition1 .. PartitionN. These can then be loop > mounted to access the > underlying file systems > > USAGE: vdfuse [options] -f image-file mountpoint > -h help > -r readonly > -t specify type (VDI, VMDK, VHD, or raw; default: auto) > -f VDimage file > -a allow all users to read disk > -w allow all users to read and write to disk > -g run in foreground > -v verbose > -d debug > > NOTE: you must add the line "user_allow_other" (without quotes) > to /etc/fuse.conf and set proper permissions on /etc/fuse.conf > for this to work. > > jdd > I downloaded the source rpm as you suggested. I had to modify the spec file to suit fedora AFA Required packages are concerned, and it built just fine. I am using it now and it seems to be working flawlessly. Thank you very much for the location of the srpm. I will browse the source code to learn more about the structure of the vdi file.
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