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From: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@googlemail.com>
To: JonY <10walls@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] How to extract content of a raw image on host?
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:18:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47B68E49.7020906@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47B6858E.3020008@gmail.com>

JonY wrote:
> Dirk Behme wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> is there a way to extract the contents of a qemu raw image on (x86 
>> Linux) host without starting QEMU itself? If so, any hint would be 
>> quite nice.
>>
>> I'm looking for anything like the reverse what
>>
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2006-04/msg00448.html
>>
>> seems to do. Extract files/directories from an existing raw image.
>>
>> qemu-img reports me
>>
>>  > qemu-img info disk.img
>> image: disk.img
>> file format: raw
>> virtual size: 4.3M (4515328 bytes)
>> disk size: 4.3M
>>
>> but what is in it and how to access the content?
>>
>> Thanks, and sorry if this is a FAQ and I missed the correct search 
>> string,
>>
>> Dirk
>>
> Hi,
> 
> have you tried using a loop back mount?

# mount -o loop disk.img mnt/
mount: You have to specify a file system type
# mount -t raw -o loop disk.img mnt/
mount: unknown file system type „raw“

Sorry if I miss the obvious ;)

Dirk

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-16  7:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-16  6:34 [Qemu-devel] How to extract content of a raw image on host? Dirk Behme
2008-02-16  6:41 ` JonY
2008-02-16  7:18   ` Dirk Behme [this message]
2008-02-16  7:44     ` JonY
2008-02-16  7:47       ` JonY
2008-02-16  7:55     ` Laurent Vivier
2008-02-16 13:47       ` Stuart Brady

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