{"id":154,"date":"2010-01-17T17:52:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T23:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/?p=154"},"modified":"2014-09-14T17:19:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T23:19:07","slug":"mounting-a-vhd-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/2010\/01\/17\/mounting-a-vhd-in-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Mounting a VHD in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

The vdfuse instructions have been updated, please view the more up to date instructions for vdfuse here: Mount a VHD or VDI in Linux with vdfuse.<\/a><\/big><\/big><\/p>\n

Let’s say you have a VHD file you’d like to access while in Linux without attaching it to a Virtual Machine.\u00a0 There are many reasons you might like to do this, but it’s not immediately obvious how to do so with Linux.<\/p>\n

There are two ways I know of:<\/p>\n

You can use vmware-mount provided by VMWare Server.\u00a0 I don’t actually like this method because VMWare Server is huge and I don’t use VMWare.\u00a0 However, if you do, take a gander at this: http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/support\/reference\/linux\/loopback_linux.html<\/a><\/p>\n

The method I ultimately went with was vdfuse<\/a> since I use VirtualBox.\u00a0 It allows you to mount any disk image supported by VirtualBox.\u00a0 Basically, if you follow the instructions at that the vdfuse forum link I just provided, you can mount the VHD to a mount point in your filesystem.\u00a0 Now, this alone doesn’t yet give you access to your files yet.\u00a0 It provides the partitions as standard files (and a file for the entire disk as well).\u00a0 The partitions are named Partition1, Partition2, etc.\u00a0 You can then mount the partition you want as a loopback device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The vdfuse instructions have been updated, please view the more up to date instructions for vdfuse here: Mount a VHD or VDI in Linux with vdfuse. Let’s say you have a VHD file you’d like to access while in Linux without attaching it to a Virtual Machine.\u00a0 There are many reasons you might like to… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[156,4263,155,154],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-fuse","tag-linux","tag-mounting","tag-vhd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rrbits.com\/epb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}