mounting VDI image on the host
by BenCollver from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5GZZ9)
On Fedora i used guestmount to mount VirtualBox VDI images on the host system.
This method won't work on Slackware because libguestfs depends on supermin, which has a hard requirement for the package manager to do dependency checking [1].
Also, i have experienced guestmount freezing and hanging when i copy large numbers of files or large multi-gigabyte files from the guest.
Today i tried vdfuse and it is working like a charm [2]. Attached is vdfuse.SlackBuild updated so it will build on -current.
[1]
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/.../msg00072.html
[2]
https://github.com/phoemur/Slackbuil.../master/vdfuse
Attached Files


This method won't work on Slackware because libguestfs depends on supermin, which has a hard requirement for the package manager to do dependency checking [1].
Also, i have experienced guestmount freezing and hanging when i copy large numbers of files or large multi-gigabyte files from the guest.
Today i tried vdfuse and it is working like a charm [2]. Attached is vdfuse.SlackBuild updated so it will build on -current.
[1]
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/.../msg00072.html
[2]
https://github.com/phoemur/Slackbuil.../master/vdfuse
Attached Files
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