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How to mount a qcow2 disk image

This is a quick guide to mounting a qcow2 disk images on your host server. This is useful to reset passwords, edit files, or recover something without the virtual machine running.

Step 1 - Enable NBD on the Host

modprobe nbd max_part=8

	package at.favre.lib.bytes.otherPackage;

	import org.junit.Test;

	import javax.crypto.Cipher;
	import javax.crypto.SecretKey;
	import javax.crypto.spec.GCMParameterSpec;
	import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;
	import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
	import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;

	import socket
	from http.server import HTTPServer, SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
	import io

	class MyHandler(SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
	def do_GET(self):
	if self.path == '/ip':
	output = io.StringIO()
	self.send_response(200)
	self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html')

	# Setting up the colors and copy/paste
	set -g default-terminal "screen-256color"

	# This is OS/X specific and should only be enabled when the 'reattach-to-user-namespace' is installed
	set -g default-command "reattach-to-user-namespace -l /bin/bash"
	bind C-c run "tmux save-buffer - \| reattach-to-user-namespace pbcopy"
	bind C-v run "tmux set-buffer $(reattach-to-user-namespace pbpaste); tmux paste-buffer"

	# Make it use C-a, similar to screen..
	unbind C-b