mountvirtualbox
Is it possible to mount a VirtualBox drive image (.vdi) so the contents can be viewed in Nautilus etc.?
I have a windows 2000 .vdi which won't boot ("inaccessible boot device") after upgrading from VirtualBox 2.x to 3.1.6. I believe the IDE drive details have changed and that all I need to do is access the internal drive image and edit the Windows boot.ini to point to the new location.
I would venture to say you are overcomplicating things! You only need to mount the iso in the virtual machine.
Under IDE Controller There should be an icon that shows a CD with a + sign on it, to create a new disc drive as shown highlighted in yellow color in the below snapshot:
A box will come up, click Choose Disk
.isoShould boot into the iso like it's in the disc drive.
While I rather doubt it's possible to mount the contents of something to a partition, there is an ubuntuforums.org thread that explains how to boot ISO images with Grub2.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1549847
Basically, you edit /etc/grub.d/40_custom by copying/pasting one of the examples provided in post #1 (version name/ISO may be out of date), modify the entry according to your ISO location and partition layout, and then run update-grub .
Here is an example of the entry (for version 14.04):
menuentry 'ISO Trusty ' {
isofile=ubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso
loopback loop (hd0,1)/iso/$isofile
linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/iso/$isofile noprompt noeject
initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz
}
Best Answer
You can convert into standard image and then mount it.
Then
You will need to KNOW the type of file system,
ext3in this case. After it is mounted, go in and edit away with the editor of your choice. Don't confuse files inside the/mntlocation with the running host, or it will be bad.To check details about your VDI file, run:
VBoxManage showhdinfo ubuntu.vdi.Source: [SOLVED] Open .vdi with archive manager? - ubuntuforums.org