canonical/multipass

Support mounting VHD drives

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#1,923 opened on Jan 17, 2021

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Description

What are you trying to do? Most of the hypervisors we support (hyperkit, VirtualBox etc.) support mounting VHD drives(I am not talking about directories, I am talking about virtual hard disk files).

It would be great if we had a command like multipass mountdisk.

What's your proposed solution? If on hyperkit, add the volume to mount when executing the hyperkit command.

If on Virtualbox, add the volume using VboxManage

Additional context

Challenges

  • The instance needs to be restarted
  • Some hypervisors may not support mounting VHD files, I am not sure about them.

Contributor guide

Research direction
Implement a command like `multipass mountdisk` that mounts VHD files by adding the volume to the hyperkit command or using VboxManage for VirtualBox. Address the need to restart the instance and handle hypervisors that may not support VHD mounting.
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backendinfrastructure
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3
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1-2 days
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Clear
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50