VirtualBox

Notes

I have confirmed that this command works for converting a .vdi file to a mountable image, regardless of what people on certain forums might think:

VBoxManage clonehd <input filename>.vdi <output filename>.iso --format RAW

It was stuck at "0%..." for many minutes, but the size of the .iso file did increase during this time. It was ultimately many times larger than the .vdi file. It may or may not technically be an ISO; the point is that it can be mounted by standard Linux utilities.

Links

• 2017-06-15 How do I convert .VMDK to ISO step by step? -- except once you have the .raw file, just rename it to something that Engrampa can open, and then extract files from inside.
• 2014-09-05 How to convert .img to usable VirtualBox format: Gnome Disk Utility creates .img files from actual hard drives; this lets you boot them in VirtualBox, or at least attempt to.
• 2010-12-30 Mount a VirtualBox drive image (vdi)?: still works in March 2018