On Sat, 14 Oct 2023, 16:25 George R Goffe via VBox-users-community, < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I have been having install problems in a VM and would like to mount the > VMs vdi file to my host system so I can copy data. > > I see that this is possible but there are are a lot of different ways to > do this. > > Can someone tell me the simplest/easiest way to do this please? > > Best regards, > > George... > On Linux, VDIMount https://github.com/deitch/vdimount (notice that the above only mounts the vdi as a block device - same as plugging a new ssd or hdd to your system - you must then have or enable the required file system drivers, if different from the host's own). On Windows... Magicdisc claims to support mounting vdi in addition to vhd. I all cases you should convert dynamic volumes to fixed size volumes beforehand. Use VBoxManage clonemedium disk olddiskimage.vdi newimage.vdi –variant fixed FC PS: wrt follow-ups, please note I'm in the middle of a deadline, so I will probably not be able to answer further until Tuesday. Good luck!
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