How can i Extract Files From VDI

Question

I was using VirtualBox on my PC(WIN 7)

I managed to View some files in my .VDI file..

How can I open or view the contents of my .vdi file and retrieve the files from there?

Answer 1

You can mount partitions from .vdi images using qemu-nbd:

sudo apt install qemu-utils
sudo modprobe nbd

vdi="/path/to/your.vdi"  # <<== Edit this

sudo qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 "$vdi"

# view partitions and select the one you want to mount.
# Using parted here, but you can also use cfdisk, fdisk, etc.

sudo parted /dev/nbd0 print
part=nbd0p2 # <<== partition you want to mount

sudo mkdir /mnt/vdi
sudo mount /dev/$part /mnt/vdi

Some users seem to need to add a parameter to the modprobe command. I didn't with Ubuntu 16.04, but if it doesn't work for you, try adding max_part=16 :

sudo modprobe nbd max_part=16

When done:

sudo umount /dev/$part
sudo qemu-nbd --disconnect /dev/nbd0