Robin Moffatt 3/11/2017

Mount VMDK/OVF/OVA on Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2

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This article provides a step-by-step technical tutorial for accessing the contents of a Linux VM's virtual disk (VMDK/OVF/OVA format) on an AWS EC2 instance. It details converting the disk to a raw image, inspecting partitions, mounting filesystems using offsets, and handling Logical Volume Management (LVM) volumes with commands like losetup, vgscan, and vgchange.

Mount VMDK/OVF/OVA on Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2

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