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

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Thu Sep 9 02:12:42 UTC 2010


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 example:
>
> 	# vdfuse -r -f ~nox/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/win7-64.vdi /mnt
> 	# mdconfig -a -f /mnt/Partition2 -o readonly
> 	md0
> 	# mount -o ro -t ntfs /dev/md0 /mnt2
> 	# ls -l /mnt2
> 	...
> 	# umount /mnt2
> 	# mdconfig -d -u 0
> 	# umount /mnt

It works for a .vdi of a UFS drive.  The BSD partitions show up on the 
md0 device (md0a, etc).  Just a trivial test, but looks promising!


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