Mount VirtualBox VDI disk

linux virtualbox mount vdi

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Solution 1

it looks like vdfuse is the tool you are looking for. At least for Ubuntu (and possibly Debian) hosts. If you want to compile yourself (2010 source) you can do that too. Sources seem to be here.

To install in Ubuntu use sudo apt-get install virtualbox-fuse

There is also a script vdimount script on Google Code.

Solution 2

VDI is a complex format and AFAIK there's currently no software that can directly mount a dynamic VDI image, although there are plenty to converting it from/to other formats.

I hope to be wrong (or be wrong in the future, such as when someone writes that piece of software) and I'll take a look at this thread just in case ;-)

Solution 3

I always wanted to know, if I could do that. Here is a very informative link >> http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=4748.

So it seems you can mount only fixed sized VDI files in both windows and linux.

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Maister

Updated on September 17, 2022

Comments

Maister over 1 year

I have a virtual Windows 7 computer using VirtualBox on a Linux host. How can I mount this virtual pc's harddisk (VDI file) in Linux? It's a dynamic file, meaning that it only takes up as much space as is actually used.
- Admin over 14 years
  
  I also want to know more about this. So far, the only way I coul dsee would be to actually start the VM, setup a shared directory, and put files there.
- Admin over 12 years
  
  This is a duplicate of the question: serverfault.com/questions/210684/….
- Admin over 12 years
  
  @IsaacSutherland This question is more than a year older than that one.
- Admin over 12 years
  
  @BartvanHeukelom The top-ranked answer at the serverfault.com question works for me. Should I have copied thkala's answer to this thread?
stwissel almost 12 years

not anymore. I successfully mount variable size VDI using vdfuse
stwissel almost 12 years

vdfuse works as of Ubuntu 12.04 (didn't test on any other version) for dynamic images too. Haven't tested one with snapshots yet
Frederick Nord over 10 years

This doesn't work anymore as of 2013 as the package was removed. And the script you mention only mounts fixed sized images.
stwissel over 10 years

It still seems to be on launchpad: launchpad.net/ubuntu/raring/amd64/virtualbox-fuse
dirdi almost 4 years

virtualbox-fuse has been removed from Debian.