Re: Access a Virtual disk without the VM running

2023-10-16 Thread George R Goffe via test
Thanks to those who responded. guestfish is looking promising... Thanks for the suggestion. Best Regards, George... Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2023 22:17:38 -0700 From: Gordon Messmer Subject: Re: Access a Virtual disk without the VM running To: test@lists.fedoraproject.org Message-ID: Content

Re: Access a Virtual disk without the VM running

2023-10-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2023-10-14 15:04, George R Goffe via test wrote: Ideally, I would mount the VDI on the host and just copy the file. Is there a way to do this easily? https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/tip-open-virtualbox-vdi-file-using-libguestfs/ guestfish tools should work...

Re: Access a Virtual disk without the VM running

2023-10-14 Thread Sérgio Basto
Hi, you may do boot in rescue mode , or live mode with an iso , may be a solution for you ... From server edition, download Network Install iso [1], boot your vm with iso and choose troubleshoot -> rescue , rescue may allow you to do : chroot /mnt/sysimage, also you can mount share folders . to

Access a Virtual disk without the VM running

2023-10-14 Thread George R Goffe via test
Hi, I'm having some problems installing the latest Fedora iso images for the past week or so (Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-Rawhide-20231014.n.0.iso) under VirtualBox... I keep getting fatal error messages "Error in POSTIN for rpm pkg dbus-common" and then the install fails. I have captured