gedankensplitter/virtualbox.md
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VirtualBox

guest share

FYI: remember to mkdir a folder for this sudo mount.vboxsf media /mnt/exchange after adding a guest share the users need access which is granted by a group: sudo usermod -G vboxsf -a $USER

sometimes it will generate a protocol error:

[    6.646480] vboxsf: could not stat root of share: -71
[    6.647218] 06:53:23.826079 automount Error: vbsvcAutomounterMountIt: Failed to mount 'exchange' on '/mnt/exchange': Protocol error (-1,71)

the workaround is to choose an new/other folder on the host system.

vhd

modprobe nbd
qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 image.vhd
mount /dev/nbd0 /mnt
[..work...]
umount /mnt
qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0
modprobe -r nbd

libguestfs

[install libguestfs-tools]
virt-list-partitions FILE_NAME.vhdx
guestmount -a srv-kirikas-storage.vhdx -m DEVICE --ro MOUNT_POINT