On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandem...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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. > 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 _______________________________________________ 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"
