shamil

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

nhobson99

This will be a step by step guide on exactly how I installed box86 on my Acer Spin 513 equipped with a Snapdragon 7C. This guide should work for several other Snapdragon Chromebooks, though YMMV. Mediatek devices will follow a similar setup, but you will compile the Rockchip (RK3399 or similar) version instead of SD845. Now on with the show:

Step 1 - Setting up Crostini

I've tried this on Crouton, but unfortunately it just doesn't seem to work on my ARM based Chromebook. If you have Crouton installed on an Intel Chromebook, it should work, but I'm not sure about AMD based Chromebooks, as their graphics drivers are different.

It's tempting to immediately create a new Crostini container, but that's actually not what we need here just yet. You see, box86 relies on something called binfmt-support in order to work. Inside Crostini, this means creating a "privileged" lxc container. You may want to have a separate container just for running x86 applications in; for this guide, I'll be using one called "x86" for