Physical Disk VMDK

[coder_lol@yahoo.com]

VirtualBox: 3.2.8
Host: Fedora 13
Guest: Fedora 13

Guest is installed in a physical partition.../dev/sda3 through vmdk. All works well, but is there a way I can view the contents of /dev/sda3 from the host? I shutdown VB, and tried to mount /dev/sda3, but without success. I figure if I can read /dev/sda3, then I can also backup the VM and its data using standard tools.

I'd appreciate all your help!

Thanks...

[Sasquatch]

It's very odd you can't mount the partition. What command did you use? You should be fine using something like this:

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sudo mkdir /mnt/fedora
sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda3 /mnt/fedora

Now the Guest partition is mounted on /mnt/fedora. This is basic Linux knowledge, I don't see where VB comes to play into mounting local hard drives, other than that you used VB to install an OS on it.