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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