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From: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] How to extract content of a raw image on host?
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To: JonY <10walls@gmail.com>
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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