Re: Mounting Disk Images

[Christoph Nenning <christoph.nenning@gmx.de>]

Am Mittwoch, 3. Mai 2006 19:07 schrieb David Baron:
> Virtualization may be the wave of the future but "communications" between
> the host and the virtual machine are needed:
>
> How might I mount qemu (raw) disk images and read and write to such files.
> I remember having done so once with a file used as /home in a qemu knoppix
> session. Forgot what I did and these were images I created and mkfs'd
> myself. The file I have in mind is an image I created by dd and then used
> qemu to install windows to this image.
>
> I can install downloads by downloading using the images IE but I have these
> files elsewhere so wish to use directly or copy to the image file.


Hi,

you could try:
# mount -t <fstype> -o loop,rw <path/to/image> <mountpoint>

regards

Christoph