Re: [Libguestfs] dump VBR of a VM image's partition

On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 06:33:12PM +0000, adrelanos wrote: So it's similar to my answer here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2013-November/msg00092.html what you would do is change /dev/sda (which means the whole disk), to /dev/sda1 (for the first partition), /dev/sda2 (second partition) and so on: guestfish --ro -a disk.img run : pread-device /dev/sda1 512 0 > mbr.1 If you want to find out what/how many partitions a disk image contains, use the virt-filesystems program, eg: virt-filesystems -a disk.img --partitions HTH, Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW