vdfuse

VirtualBox software mounts VDI partition file tool

Supplementary instructions

vdfuse command is a tool for VirtualBox software to mount VDI partition files. VirtualBox is an open source software that can create virtual machines, and vdi is its default disk format.

What is VirtualBox

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 virtual machine software that not only has rich features, but also has excellent performance. What's even more gratifying is that VirtualBox became open source a few days ago and became a free software released under the GPL license. VirtualBox can run on Linux and Windows hosts and supports client operations for installing Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), OpenBSD, etc. system.

**Install vdfuse in Ubuntu, open the terminal and enter: **

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-fuse

grammar

vdfuse [options] -f image-file mountpoint

Options

-h help
-r read only
-t type (VDI, VMDK, VHD, or raw; default: auto)
-f image file
-a allows all users to read
-w allows all users to write
-g runs in the foreground
-v output feedback
-d debug mode

Note: You must edit /etc/fuse.confand and remove the comment symbol (#) in front of "user_allow_other", otherwise it will not run correctly.

Example

Use the following statement to mount the .vdi file:

sudo vdfuse -f /path/to/file.vdi /path/to/mountpoint

/path/to/mountpoint should contain the following files EntireDisk, Partition1, etc. If there is only one file, you may need to mount it like this:

mount /path/to/mountpoint/Partition1 /path/to/someother/mountpoint

The file system is mounted to /path/to/someother/mountpoint.