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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

Activate Windows 11 inside the Terminal

Open your terminal as an Administrator.
Select license key depending on your windows edition.

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Home N: 3KHY7-WNT83-DGQKR-F7HPR-844BM
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Home Country Specific: PVMJN-6DFY6-9CCP6-7BKTT-D3WVR
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	# DO NOT PUT THE WIFI DONGLE IN THE DEVICE BEFORE MENTIONED EXPLICITLY BELOW

	# Brief note, after this the UI will not show the usb dongle,
	# the wifi does work and I get an IP address, so all works,
	# but I don't go into detail of making it show on the Raspbian UI.
	# (for this purpose I don't care about the UI)

	# For the use of this I connected my device to an ethernet connection and through the Router could see the IP which I can SSH into.

	## STEP 1: Prepare machine and install packages needed

	# should works on any cloud-init enabled hypervisor (openstack.. )

	# start from a normal ubuntu 20.04 install as minimal was not available for ARM64
	# Since ARM64 machines has higher RAM, Shrinking is desired but not necessary. Instead we will increase tmpfs to 1700MB

	# Getting root (if sudo -i doesn't work then set a root password beforehand using 'sudo passwd root'

	sudo -i

	# make sure we are on the highest kernel, so we can delete all the others ...