How to mount VirtualBox drive image (vdi) in Ubuntu 12.10/12.04

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If you want to mount VirtualBox drive image (vdi) in Ubuntu 12.04/12.10 use vdfuse.This Fuse module uses the VirtualBox access library to open a VirtualBox supported VD image file and mount it as a Fuse file system. The mount point contains a flat directory containing the files EntireDisk, Partition1 .. PartitionN. These can then be loop mounted to access the underlying file systems

Install vdfuse in ubuntu 12.10/12.04

Open the terminal and run the following command

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-fuse

Using vdfuse

vdfuse syntax

vdfuse [options] -f image-file mountpoint

-h help

-r readonly

-t specify type (VDI, VMDK, VHD, or raw; default: auto)

-f VDimage file

-a allow all users to read disk

-w allow all users to read and write to disk

-g run in foreground

-v verbose

-d debug

NOTE: you must add the line "user_allow_other" (without quotes) to /etc/fuse.confand set proper permissions on /etc/fuse.conf for this to work.

Example

If you want to mount .vdi file use the following syntax

sudo vdfuse -f /path/to/file.vdi /path/to/mountpoint

/path/to/mountpoint will now contain files like ‘EntireDisk', ‘Partition1', etc. If there's only one partition showing, you probably want that one. So to mount the filesystem, just type:

mount /path/to/mountpoint/Partition1 /path/to/someother/mountpoint

The filesystem should now be mounted on /path/to/someother/mountpoint.

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