====== Answer to "Mount a VirtualBox drive image (vdi)?" ======


https://askubuntu.com/questions/19430/mount-a-virtualbox-drive-image-vdi/50290#50290
-by [[https://askubuntu.com/users/7567/maxime-r|Maxime R.]]

 

Use qemu-nbd, the process is explained on serverfault and in this blog.

Basically, you'll have to install qemu if needed:

  sudo apt-get install qemu

Then you'll need to load the network block device module:

  sudo rmmod nbd
  sudo modprobe nbd max_part=16

Attach the .vdi image to one of the nbd you just created:

  sudo qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 drive.vdi

Now you will get a /dev/nbd0 block device, along with several /dev/nbd0p* partition device nodes.

  sudo mount /dev/nbd0p1 /mnt

Once you are done, unmount everything and disconnect the device:

  sudo qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0