mount vhdx in linux

install_tools.sh

#!/bin/bash

# install qemu utils
sudo apt install qemu-utils

# install nbd client
sudo apt install nbd-client

mount_vhdx.sh

#!/bin/bash

VHDX_IMG="$1"
MOUNT_POINT="$2"

# [ubuntu] How do you mount a VHD image
# https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2299701
# 

# Load the nbd kernel module.
sudo rmmod nbd;sudo modprobe nbd max_part=16

# mount block device
sudo qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 "$VHDX_IMG"

# reload partition table
sudo partprobe /dev/nbd0

# mount partition
sudo mount -o rw,nouser /dev/nbd0p1 "$MOUNT_POINT"

unmount_vhdx.sh

#!/bin/bash

MOUNT_POINT="$1"

#unmount & remove nbd module
sudo umount "$MOUNT_POINT" && sudo qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0 && sudo rmmod nbd

On Arch and Manjaro, you will need the following packages:

• qemu-headless
• nbd

To install them:

sudo pacman -S qemu-headless nbd

Thank you very much, worked perfectly on artix.
If you are mounting a win10 backup, be sure to select the good file and partiton (often nbd0p2), multiple vhdx are generated.

Thank you. This allowed me to mount WSL2 partitions from native linux after running into errors with libguestfs.

Simmilar to @stewSquared I mounted a WSL2 partion aswell. The only thing I had to change was the last command of the mount script, because in my case there were no partitions just /dev/nbd0 so I my command was:
sudo mount -o rw,nouser /dev/nbd0 "$MOUNT_POINT" (notice the missing p1)

Thank you very much! @allenyllee ! Is it also possible with VHDX configured with Bitlocker encryption?

Anyway to resize the image please @allenyllee

On 64-bit Slackware 15.0 I didn't have to specify max_part=16 (default). Using qemu-nbd -r both *.vhd and *.vhdx works without partprobe and I didn't even need nbd-client from the nbd package and I didn't have to reload the nbd kernel module after each try. BTW, I run modprobe -r nbd instead of rmmod nbd for the final cleanup.

Ty! Awesome script 👌