You can use libguestfs-tools to achieve this. First, you need to install it, on Ubuntu/Debian-like Linux that would be: sudo apt-get install libguestfs-tools Then, you can mount almost whatever you wish: guestmount –add yourVirtualDisk.vhdx –inspector –ro /mnt/anydirectory This is just an example of read-only extraction point. Hints: Run it as normal user, i.e.: guestmount … … Read more
You can compact a VHD in Windows 7 using diskpart.exe’s COMPACT option. Also, if you don’t mind a little coding, you can call the CompactVirtualDisk API (I’d post a link to it, but new users can’t post hyperlinks – just search MSDN for it if you’re interested).
The key to the solution is the message that the container has an active disk artifact and the advice to remove it from the repository. The procedure to remove the disk image from the blob repository is: Go to the Windows Azure Management Portal. Click on Virtual Machines. Click on Disks. Click on the disk. … Read more
After troubleshooting this for many hours (and trying all the suggestions posted here), the issue turned out to be the TLS link between our main office and the datacenter. I called our TLS provider and after talking to several NOC technicians, one of them had heard of the exact issue before. It turned out that … Read more
Finally I got it working. So in summary here are the steps to perform Install macfuse Install Virtual Box Compile vdfuse as mentioned in the question Mount the vhd disk sudo ./vdfuse -tVHD -w -f/Path/To/VHD /Path/To/Mountpoint Attach the virtual partition blockfiles hdiutil attach -imagekey diskimage-class=CRawDiskImage -nomount /Path/To/Mountpoint/PartitionN Mount the virtual partition mount -t YourFS /dev/diskK … Read more