Re: CFT: vdfuse port (was: Re: Mounting VirtualBox vdi files [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED])

2010-09-15 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Juergen Lock wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 01:21:26PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Juergen Lock wrote: Dumping the partitions of that FreeBSD system worked just now. Not what I'd call a thorough test, but it

Re: CFT: vdfuse port (was: Re: Mounting VirtualBox vdi files [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED])

2010-09-15 Thread Juergen Lock
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 08:11:35PM -0500, Brandon Gooch wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Juergen Lock wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 01:06:24PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > >> On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Juergen Lock wrote: > >> > >> > On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 07:44:37PM -0600, Warren Block w

Re: CFT: vdfuse port (was: Re: Mounting VirtualBox vdi files [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED])

2010-09-15 Thread Juergen Lock
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 01:00:19PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: >[...] > In any case, I'd rather have a port that is not 100% than no port at > all. Announcing possible problems in the pkg-message would be > appropriate. Well if we can establish that readonly works consistently at least for `some

Re: CFT: vdfuse port (was: Re: Mounting VirtualBox vdi files [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED])

2010-09-15 Thread Juergen Lock
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 01:21:26PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Warren Block wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Juergen Lock wrote: > >>> > >>> Dumping the partitions of that FreeBSD system worked just now. Not what > >>> I'd call a thorough test, but it did read everything i

Re: CFT: vdfuse port (was: Re: Mounting VirtualBox vdi files [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED])

2010-09-14 Thread Brandon Gooch
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Juergen Lock wrote: > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 01:06:24PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: >> On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Juergen Lock wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 07:44:37PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Juergen Lock wrote: >> >> >> >>> ...there

Re: CFT: vdfuse port (was: Re: Mounting VirtualBox vdi files [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED])

2010-09-14 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Juergen Lock wrote: Dumping the partitions of that FreeBSD system worked just now. Not what I'd call a thorough test, but it did read everything in the filesystem without problems. Ok that sounds promising... Someone want to do

Re: CFT: vdfuse port (was: Re: Mounting VirtualBox vdi files [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED])

2010-09-14 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Juergen Lock wrote: Dumping the partitions of that FreeBSD system worked just now. Not what I'd call a thorough test, but it did read everything in the filesystem without problems. Ok that sounds promising... Someone want to do more tests or should I just commit the port

Re: CFT: vdfuse port (was: Re: Mounting VirtualBox vdi files [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED])

2010-09-13 Thread Juergen Lock
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 01:06:24PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Juergen Lock wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 07:44:37PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > >> On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Juergen Lock wrote: > >> > >>> ...there is a much simpler fusefs tool in debian called vdfuse that I

Re: CFT: vdfuse port (was: Re: Mounting VirtualBox vdi files [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED])

2010-09-11 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Juergen Lock wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 07:44:37PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Juergen Lock wrote: ...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 th

Re: CFT: vdfuse port (was: Re: Mounting VirtualBox vdi files [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED])

2010-09-11 Thread Juergen Lock
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 07:44:37PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Juergen Lock wrote: > > > ...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 pl

Re: CFT: vdfuse port (was: Re: Mounting VirtualBox vdi files [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED])

2010-09-08 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Juergen Lock wrote: ...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 exam

CFT: vdfuse port (was: Re: Mounting VirtualBox vdi files [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED])

2010-09-02 Thread Juergen Lock
(Yes this thread is a bit old but now I may have a solution...) In article <20100706032057.ga15...@stlux503.dsto.defence.gov.au> 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 >>vd

Re: Mounting VirtualBox vdi files

2010-07-06 Thread Kyryll A Mirnenko aka Mirya
If you're creating the VM from scratch, you may use raw file-backed disk image along with VMDK format wrapper. You may create a sparse file # truncate -s 2G img or a preallocated one # dd if=/dev/zero of=img bs=1m count=2048 , then create a character device for it # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f im

Re: Mounting VirtualBox vdi files

2010-07-05 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 9:58 PM, 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 >> wha

Re: Mounting VirtualBox vdi files

2010-07-05 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 9:58 PM, 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 fi

Re: Mounting VirtualBox vdi files [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-07-05 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
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 wo

Mounting VirtualBox vdi files

2010-07-05 Thread Warren Block
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