Mount image (qcow2) from KVM on macOS - fastest way? / Convert qcow2 to access files (EXT4 partition)

mount-image-qcow2-from-kvm-on-macos.md

If you haven't installed any FUSE yet:

brew tap homebrew/fuse
brew install Caskroom/cask/osxfuse

1. brew install qemu ext4fuse
2. qemu-img convert -p -O vmdk snapshot.qcow2 system.vmdk This will take some time...
3. Download and register for a free licence of VMDK Mounter for Mac® OS X and install it.
4. Reboot your macOS device.
5. Mount the vmdk volume by double clicking it.
6. Mount the partition: ext4fuse "/dev/disk3s2" "/Volumes/kvm-snapshot" (you have to edit it to your disk numbers)
7. Now you can access it with the terminal.

Did you try qcow2-fuse? I wonder if there is a way to mount it so that it can be remounted by qemu after you are done. (Looking for a quick cross-compiling solution that can reuse libraries obtained using sudo apt-get in rpi)

it isn't clear if in 2020 ext4fuse supports writing from Mac OS X. does it, or is it read only?

3 years ago I think I didn't try to write on that disk. I wanted only to access the data.
I got a .qcow2 as a backup file from a virtual server and only needed to extract some files from there

VDMK Mounter is discontinued, I was able to mount vmdk using VirtualBox

VDMK Mounter is discontinued, I was able to mount vmdk using VirtualBox

brew install --cask paragon-vmdk-mounter

But this is not mounting, but converting. I can't mount and change disk content