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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?
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To open VDI file, please follow the steps, Run PowerISO. Click the "Open" button on toolbar or choose "File > Open" menu to open vdi file. If there are more than one partition in the vdi file, PowerISO will list all partitions, you need select a partition from the list to continue.
There are two simple methods that you can use to export a VirtualBox virtual machine. The first method is to use the built-in Export function to generate an exportable VDI file. The other method is to copy and paste the entire VM folder you want to move.
follow the below steps to open Source VDI file in Windows: Download and Install the tool VDI recovery on your system. Choose the disk type and hit the Browse button to select a location of VDI file, you wish to recover. After file selection, you can now view the VDI file contents.
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
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