Xmount

xmount
Maintainer:	Daniel Gillen
OS:	Linux, Mac OS X
Genre:	Image mounting
License:	GPL
Website:	www.pinguin.lu

Description taken from xmount project site on Pinguin's HQ:

xmount allows you to convert on-the-fly between multiple input and output harddisk image types. xmount creates a virtual file system using FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) that contains a virtual representation of the input image.

The virtual representation can be in:

• raw DD
• DMG
• VHD
• VirtualBox's virtual disk file format
• VmWare's VMDK file format

Input images can be:

• raw DD
• EWF (Expert Witness Compression Format)
• AFF (Advanced Forensic Format)

In addition, xmount also supports virtual write access to the output files that is redirected to a cache file. This makes it possible to boot acquired harddisk images using QEMU, KVM, VirtualBox, VmWare or alike.

See Also

• Disk Images

External Links

• Pinguin's HQ
• HOWTO: Booting an acquired hard disk image containing a Windows installation using xmount and OpenGates.
• Xmount: When "Changing" the Evidence isn't so Bad, by John Lehr, March 21, 2013