How do I mount a .VDI filesystem under linux?

[mister_v]

Hi,

I want to mount a harddisk of VirtualBox under linux.
How do I do that?

It has .vdi exetntion.
Filesystem was created by VirtualBox 4.0.4

thanks.

[mister_v]

I was able to create a clone and use it on another virtual machine with

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VBoxManage clonevdi /var/vm/test_drive.vdi /var/vm/test_drive_22.vdi

is the same as

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VBoxManage clonehd /var/vm/test_drive.vdi /var/vm/test_drive_22.vdi

But this isn't exactly what I want.

I know that the .vdi file is a complete harddisk,
and that I need to access the partition on it.

[Chris]

For fixed-size VDI images,
you can follow this tutorial.
http://wiki.przemoc.net/tips/linux#moun ... size_image

For dynamic size VDI-images, it looks to be more difficult...
From what I read it is highly discouraged to mount it with a non-vdi aware application.
With the risk of corrupting the data.

You can get info of the VDI-image with:

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VBoxManage showhdinfo drive.vdi 
UUID:                 {UUID1}
Accessible:           yes
Logical size:         61440 MBytes
Current size on disk: 7041 MBytes
Type:                 normal (base)
Storage format:       VDI
Format variant:       dynamic default
In use by VMs:        {VBOXSYS} (UUID: {UUID2})
Location:             /var/driveb/share/os_sys/drive.vdi