On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Warren Block <wbl...@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. -- Adam Vande More _______________________________________________ freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-emulation-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
