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September 11, 2023 15:09
How to edit contents inside a Virtualbox windows.vdi and make a new vdi from the previous one ?
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| First of all vdi cant be directly modified in an easy way on Linux | |
| Lets suppose we have all our virtualbox files inside Virtaulbox folder in home directory | |
| VBoxManage clonehd ~/Virtualbox/windows11/windows11.vdi output.img --format RAW | |
| Above command will make a clone of your current vdi , remeber the output.img will have the fuoll size the windows11.vdi was allocated | |
| now we have got a clone of windows11.vdi , in form of output.img | |
| sudo losetup -P /dev/loop0 output.img | |
| Above command will mount the output.img as loop device on /dev/loop0 | |
| Now , open Dolphin file manager of KDE Plasma , on left sideview it will show an unmounted Partition mount it | |
| Now you can see the contents of .vdi that was first changed to .img then it was mounted as loop device | |
| Edit replace the files as needed |