How do I mount a qcow2 disk image?
I have a QEMU virtual machine that uses a qcow2 disk image.
How can I mount its filesystem without powering on the virtual machine?
mount virtualization qemu
asked Sep 19 '10 at 22:36
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I have a QEMU virtual machine that uses a qcow2 disk image.
How can I mount its filesystem without powering on the virtual machine?
mount virtualization qemu
asked Sep 19 '10 at 22:36
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I have a QEMU virtual machine that uses a qcow2 disk image.
How can I mount its filesystem without powering on the virtual machine?
mount virtualization qemu
asked Sep 19 '10 at 22:36
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I have a QEMU virtual machine that uses a qcow2 disk image.
How can I mount its filesystem without powering on the virtual machine?
mount virtualization qemu
mount virtualization qemu
asked Sep 19 '10 at 22:36
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A quick google search turns up the qemu-nbd program, mentioned here. It is part of the qemu-kvm package, so you'll have to install KVM if you aren't using that already. Not sure about any direct GNOME/KDE solutions, if that is what you were looking for. Here is an example for using it:
sudo modprobe nbd
sudo qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 --read-only /path/to/image.qcow2
udisksctl mount -b /dev/nbd0p1
edited Jan 4 at 3:34
Mihai Capotă
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answered Sep 20 '10 at 1:08
Tim YatesTim Yates
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Looks likeqemu-nbdis the best way to go, as long as I remember tomodprobe nbdfirst.qemu-nbdfails silently if this module has not been loaded!
– ændrük
Sep 24 '10 at 16:03
That's unfortunate. You should be able to addnbdto/etc/modules, anyway.
– Tim Yates
Sep 24 '10 at 16:54
I wrote a little tool to wrap this up: github.com/JonathonReinhart/qcow2-explore
– Jonathon Reinhart
Nov 23 '16 at 1:49
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There's also libguestfs, but it's not yet available from official repositories1. There are binaries in libguestfs.org though.
edited May 20 '15 at 19:21
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answered Sep 16 '11 at 22:14
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While libguestfs looks really nice, but is heavyweight. It has a ton of dependencies (It recommends up to 55 dependencies, and installs an entiresuperminappliance.
– Stefan Lasiewski
Mar 4 '13 at 5:53
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xmount can make the disk images of some VMs look like a raw disk (which can then be partitioned with losetup, and the partitions mounted). I don't know if it supports qcow2, however.
answered Sep 20 '10 at 23:59
GillesGilles
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The xmount manual states that only EWF and raw disk images can be used.
– ændrük
Sep 21 '10 at 2:21
add a comment |
you can directly mount as a normal mount like this
mount /dev/sdb1 /mount-point
But if u have n number of device mean you want again mount it to another directory for
that you can follow this one:
Mounting a partition from raw image is pretty simple:
losetup /dev/loop0 image.img
kpartx -a /dev/loop0
mount /dev/mapper/loop0p1 /mnt/image
answered Feb 28 '14 at 4:50
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A qcow2 image is not a raw image, and can't be mounted through either of those approaches.
– Twirrim
Mar 15 '18 at 23:03
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A quick google search turns up the qemu-nbd program, mentioned here. It is part of the qemu-kvm package, so you'll have to install KVM if you aren't using that already. Not sure about any direct GNOME/KDE solutions, if that is what you were looking for. Here is an example for using it:
sudo modprobe nbd
sudo qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 --read-only /path/to/image.qcow2
udisksctl mount -b /dev/nbd0p1
edited Jan 4 at 3:34
Mihai Capotă
1,46911318
answered Sep 20 '10 at 1:08
Tim YatesTim Yates
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Looks likeqemu-nbdis the best way to go, as long as I remember tomodprobe nbdfirst.qemu-nbdfails silently if this module has not been loaded!
– ændrük
Sep 24 '10 at 16:03
That's unfortunate. You should be able to addnbdto/etc/modules, anyway.
– Tim Yates
Sep 24 '10 at 16:54
I wrote a little tool to wrap this up: github.com/JonathonReinhart/qcow2-explore
– Jonathon Reinhart
Nov 23 '16 at 1:49
add a comment |
A quick google search turns up the qemu-nbd program, mentioned here. It is part of the qemu-kvm package, so you'll have to install KVM if you aren't using that already. Not sure about any direct GNOME/KDE solutions, if that is what you were looking for. Here is an example for using it:
sudo modprobe nbd
sudo qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 --read-only /path/to/image.qcow2
udisksctl mount -b /dev/nbd0p1
edited Jan 4 at 3:34
Mihai Capotă
1,46911318
answered Sep 20 '10 at 1:08
Tim YatesTim Yates
27624
2
Looks likeqemu-nbdis the best way to go, as long as I remember tomodprobe nbdfirst.qemu-nbdfails silently if this module has not been loaded!
– ændrük
Sep 24 '10 at 16:03
That's unfortunate. You should be able to addnbdto/etc/modules, anyway.
– Tim Yates
Sep 24 '10 at 16:54
I wrote a little tool to wrap this up: github.com/JonathonReinhart/qcow2-explore
– Jonathon Reinhart
Nov 23 '16 at 1:49
add a comment |
A quick google search turns up the qemu-nbd program, mentioned here. It is part of the qemu-kvm package, so you'll have to install KVM if you aren't using that already. Not sure about any direct GNOME/KDE solutions, if that is what you were looking for. Here is an example for using it:
sudo modprobe nbd
sudo qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 --read-only /path/to/image.qcow2
udisksctl mount -b /dev/nbd0p1
edited Jan 4 at 3:34
Mihai Capotă
1,46911318
answered Sep 20 '10 at 1:08
Tim YatesTim Yates
27624
A quick google search turns up the qemu-nbd program, mentioned here. It is part of the qemu-kvm package, so you'll have to install KVM if you aren't using that already. Not sure about any direct GNOME/KDE solutions, if that is what you were looking for. Here is an example for using it:
sudo modprobe nbd
sudo qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 --read-only /path/to/image.qcow2
udisksctl mount -b /dev/nbd0p1
edited Jan 4 at 3:34
Mihai Capotă
1,46911318
answered Sep 20 '10 at 1:08
Tim YatesTim Yates
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Mihai Capotă
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Mihai Capotă
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answered Sep 20 '10 at 1:08
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Looks likeqemu-nbdis the best way to go, as long as I remember tomodprobe nbdfirst.qemu-nbdfails silently if this module has not been loaded!
– ændrük
Sep 24 '10 at 16:03
That's unfortunate. You should be able to addnbdto/etc/modules, anyway.
– Tim Yates
Sep 24 '10 at 16:54
I wrote a little tool to wrap this up: github.com/JonathonReinhart/qcow2-explore
– Jonathon Reinhart
Nov 23 '16 at 1:49
add a comment |
2
Looks likeqemu-nbdis the best way to go, as long as I remember tomodprobe nbdfirst.qemu-nbdfails silently if this module has not been loaded!
– ændrük
Sep 24 '10 at 16:03
That's unfortunate. You should be able to addnbdto/etc/modules, anyway.
– Tim Yates
Sep 24 '10 at 16:54
I wrote a little tool to wrap this up: github.com/JonathonReinhart/qcow2-explore
– Jonathon Reinhart
Nov 23 '16 at 1:49
2
2
Looks like
qemu-nbd is the best way to go, as long as I remember to modprobe nbd first. qemu-nbd fails silently if this module has not been loaded!– ændrük
Sep 24 '10 at 16:03
Looks like
qemu-nbd is the best way to go, as long as I remember to modprobe nbd first. qemu-nbd fails silently if this module has not been loaded!– ændrük
Sep 24 '10 at 16:03
That's unfortunate. You should be able to add
nbd to /etc/modules, anyway.– Tim Yates
Sep 24 '10 at 16:54
That's unfortunate. You should be able to add
nbd to /etc/modules, anyway.– Tim Yates
Sep 24 '10 at 16:54
I wrote a little tool to wrap this up: github.com/JonathonReinhart/qcow2-explore
– Jonathon Reinhart
Nov 23 '16 at 1:49
I wrote a little tool to wrap this up: github.com/JonathonReinhart/qcow2-explore
– Jonathon Reinhart
Nov 23 '16 at 1:49
add a comment |
There's also libguestfs, but it's not yet available from official repositories1. There are binaries in libguestfs.org though.
edited May 20 '15 at 19:21
Community♦
1
answered Sep 16 '11 at 22:14
sendmoreinfosendmoreinfo
22437
While libguestfs looks really nice, but is heavyweight. It has a ton of dependencies (It recommends up to 55 dependencies, and installs an entiresuperminappliance.
– Stefan Lasiewski
Mar 4 '13 at 5:53
add a comment |
There's also libguestfs, but it's not yet available from official repositories1. There are binaries in libguestfs.org though.
edited May 20 '15 at 19:21
Community♦
1
answered Sep 16 '11 at 22:14
sendmoreinfosendmoreinfo
22437
While libguestfs looks really nice, but is heavyweight. It has a ton of dependencies (It recommends up to 55 dependencies, and installs an entiresuperminappliance.
– Stefan Lasiewski
Mar 4 '13 at 5:53
add a comment |
There's also libguestfs, but it's not yet available from official repositories1. There are binaries in libguestfs.org though.
edited May 20 '15 at 19:21
Community♦
1
answered Sep 16 '11 at 22:14
sendmoreinfosendmoreinfo
22437
There's also libguestfs, but it's not yet available from official repositories1. There are binaries in libguestfs.org though.
edited May 20 '15 at 19:21
Community♦
1
answered Sep 16 '11 at 22:14
sendmoreinfosendmoreinfo
22437
edited May 20 '15 at 19:21
Community♦
1
edited May 20 '15 at 19:21
Community♦
1
edited May 20 '15 at 19:21
Community♦
1
1
answered Sep 16 '11 at 22:14
sendmoreinfosendmoreinfo
22437
answered Sep 16 '11 at 22:14
sendmoreinfosendmoreinfo
22437
answered Sep 16 '11 at 22:14
sendmoreinfosendmoreinfo
22437
22437
While libguestfs looks really nice, but is heavyweight. It has a ton of dependencies (It recommends up to 55 dependencies, and installs an entiresuperminappliance.
– Stefan Lasiewski
Mar 4 '13 at 5:53
add a comment |
While libguestfs looks really nice, but is heavyweight. It has a ton of dependencies (It recommends up to 55 dependencies, and installs an entiresuperminappliance.
– Stefan Lasiewski
Mar 4 '13 at 5:53
While libguestfs looks really nice, but is heavyweight. It has a ton of dependencies (It recommends up to 55 dependencies, and installs an entire
supermin appliance.– Stefan Lasiewski
Mar 4 '13 at 5:53
While libguestfs looks really nice, but is heavyweight. It has a ton of dependencies (It recommends up to 55 dependencies, and installs an entire
supermin appliance.– Stefan Lasiewski
Mar 4 '13 at 5:53
add a comment |
xmount can make the disk images of some VMs look like a raw disk (which can then be partitioned with losetup, and the partitions mounted). I don't know if it supports qcow2, however.
answered Sep 20 '10 at 23:59
GillesGilles
44.6k1399140
The xmount manual states that only EWF and raw disk images can be used.
– ændrük
Sep 21 '10 at 2:21
add a comment |
xmount can make the disk images of some VMs look like a raw disk (which can then be partitioned with losetup, and the partitions mounted). I don't know if it supports qcow2, however.
answered Sep 20 '10 at 23:59
GillesGilles
44.6k1399140
The xmount manual states that only EWF and raw disk images can be used.
– ændrük
Sep 21 '10 at 2:21
add a comment |
xmount can make the disk images of some VMs look like a raw disk (which can then be partitioned with losetup, and the partitions mounted). I don't know if it supports qcow2, however.
answered Sep 20 '10 at 23:59
GillesGilles
44.6k1399140
xmount can make the disk images of some VMs look like a raw disk (which can then be partitioned with losetup, and the partitions mounted). I don't know if it supports qcow2, however.
answered Sep 20 '10 at 23:59
GillesGilles
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answered Sep 20 '10 at 23:59
GillesGilles
44.6k1399140
answered Sep 20 '10 at 23:59
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44.6k1399140
answered Sep 20 '10 at 23:59
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The xmount manual states that only EWF and raw disk images can be used.
– ændrük
Sep 21 '10 at 2:21
add a comment |
The xmount manual states that only EWF and raw disk images can be used.
– ændrük
Sep 21 '10 at 2:21
The xmount manual states that only EWF and raw disk images can be used.
– ændrük
Sep 21 '10 at 2:21
The xmount manual states that only EWF and raw disk images can be used.
– ændrük
Sep 21 '10 at 2:21
add a comment |
you can directly mount as a normal mount like this
mount /dev/sdb1 /mount-point
But if u have n number of device mean you want again mount it to another directory for
that you can follow this one:
Mounting a partition from raw image is pretty simple:
losetup /dev/loop0 image.img
kpartx -a /dev/loop0
mount /dev/mapper/loop0p1 /mnt/image
answered Feb 28 '14 at 4:50
PremkumarPremkumar
310211
1
A qcow2 image is not a raw image, and can't be mounted through either of those approaches.
– Twirrim
Mar 15 '18 at 23:03
add a comment |
you can directly mount as a normal mount like this
mount /dev/sdb1 /mount-point
But if u have n number of device mean you want again mount it to another directory for
that you can follow this one:
Mounting a partition from raw image is pretty simple:
losetup /dev/loop0 image.img
kpartx -a /dev/loop0
mount /dev/mapper/loop0p1 /mnt/image
answered Feb 28 '14 at 4:50
PremkumarPremkumar
310211
1
A qcow2 image is not a raw image, and can't be mounted through either of those approaches.
– Twirrim
Mar 15 '18 at 23:03
add a comment |
you can directly mount as a normal mount like this
mount /dev/sdb1 /mount-point
But if u have n number of device mean you want again mount it to another directory for
that you can follow this one:
Mounting a partition from raw image is pretty simple:
losetup /dev/loop0 image.img
kpartx -a /dev/loop0
mount /dev/mapper/loop0p1 /mnt/image
answered Feb 28 '14 at 4:50
PremkumarPremkumar
310211
you can directly mount as a normal mount like this
mount /dev/sdb1 /mount-point
But if u have n number of device mean you want again mount it to another directory for
that you can follow this one:
Mounting a partition from raw image is pretty simple:
losetup /dev/loop0 image.img
kpartx -a /dev/loop0
mount /dev/mapper/loop0p1 /mnt/image
answered Feb 28 '14 at 4:50
PremkumarPremkumar
310211
edited Feb 28 '14 at 5:52
answered Feb 28 '14 at 4:50
PremkumarPremkumar
310211
answered Feb 28 '14 at 4:50
PremkumarPremkumar
310211
answered Feb 28 '14 at 4:50
PremkumarPremkumar
310211
310211
1
A qcow2 image is not a raw image, and can't be mounted through either of those approaches.
– Twirrim
Mar 15 '18 at 23:03
add a comment |
1
A qcow2 image is not a raw image, and can't be mounted through either of those approaches.
– Twirrim
Mar 15 '18 at 23:03
1
1
A qcow2 image is not a raw image, and can't be mounted through either of those approaches.
– Twirrim
Mar 15 '18 at 23:03
A qcow2 image is not a raw image, and can't be mounted through either of those approaches.
– Twirrim
Mar 15 '18 at 23:03
add a comment |
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