It so happens that I will be working on sl.vdi today, I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out what I've done, but let's just say that Leopard is NOT necessary to install Snow Leopard within VirtualBox. Implementation : Let's start by getting that little-endian, 4-byte, 32-bit integer at offset 0x158 in the. Once mounted, all standard utilities can be used against the disk image, including but not limited to any cli-based command and even the gui Disk Utility (Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility). Once we have this value, we will divide it by the number of bytes per sector, 0x200 (hex) or 512 (dec), and use Apple OS X's included hdid utility to attach the virtual device using a subset of the image file ( please see the man 8 hdid, -section, parameter ). This is discerned by reading a little-endian, 4-byte, 32-bit integer at byte offset 0x158 (hex) or 344 (dec) from the. vdi header stops and the raw disk image begins. Methodology : To mount the image, we need to find where the VirtualBox. Though possible to mount dynamically-sized images, it is beyond the scope of this post. This method is a re-post of collective information I found online, I will post attributions to the original authors once I can find their sites again.Ĭaveat : This method only works on flat, statically-sized. This includes partitioning, formatting, data transfer and general maintenance - all much simpler to do within the host, especially if the guest isn't actually running yet. Introduction : While tinkering with Sun's VirtualBox 3.1.4 on Apple OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.2 as of this writing), I found the necessity to be able to mount VirtualBox's virtual disk image files so I could work on them from within the host. vdi and though there were no filesystems it could read, the same procedure works now as it did then. I tested it with Oracle's Solaris 11 (2) on a statically-sized.
#MAC OS X VDI FILE MAC OS X#
Updated () : This procedure is confirmed to work with Oracle's VirtualBox 4.3.22 r98236 running on Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10.2).
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