If you want to mount VirtualBox drive image (vdi) in Ubuntu 12.04/12.10 use vdfuse.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.
I am currently trying to backup data from my computer's hard drive to an external one while live-booting to Ubuntu from a USB, and I've encountered a bit of a problem. You see, I cannot mount my hard drives.
well, though compile it well, it doesn't give proper resultI only get two files name EntireDisk and Partition1 lolwhile vdimount works fine but needs sudo and modprobe loop
I've created a 8GB disk image (ext4) from a partition of USB flash drive via 'dd'. I mount it to a directory:
mount -o loop disk.img mount_dir/
I can access the files inside it. The problem is that when I copy files to the mount_dir, the system seems to have large IO Wait and the system is nearly hang. I also tried to copy only few small files.
I installed in my Slackware 13.1 with generic kernel 2.6.33.4-smp VirtualBox packages taken from SlackBuilds.org (acpica, virtualbox-ose and virtualbox-kernel). Then for testing purposes I installed in VirtualBox Windows XP using CD-ROM drive connected to USB port. Its a lot of fun to see Windows as an application in Linux!
It’s quite easy to get access to Image files without burning them using Furius ISO mount, with application you are able to mount these files ” ISO, IMG, BIN, MDF and NRG ” it’s completely simple GUI “ Graphical User Interface ” , automatically add a mount point for the selected image file.
I'm brand new to Linux and to EC2, so I'm probably making a stupid mistake. But I've spent over a day on this, so time to ask for help...
I'm trying to get VirtualBox to work on Amazon EC2 so that I can load a virtual image I've downloaded from another site.
I've tried a number of different ways to get VirtualBox going, but nothing works.
I am trying to run zerofree on Ubuntu 11.04 so that I can compact the VirtualBox vdi image using:
VBoxManage modifyhd Ubuntu.vdi --compact
In order to run zerofree the disk image has be mounted as read-only.
So I just did a dd image of a partition and gzip'd it on the fly. After formatting the partition, I realized I forgot to get some files off the drive *doh*.
So I had to gunzip the image (109GB image gzip'd to 25GB) before I could mount it as a loop device.
My question is, does anyone know of a live tool (not ghost or any live CD) that can do an image of a drive but skip the empty blocks?
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