Mounting VHD in Kali

I came across a tool called guestmount that allowed me to mount .vhd in my Kali Linux environment. If you are running Kali, this tool should be available in the repository. You can get it by running the following:

apt-get install libguestfs-tools

After you install that, you should have guestmount available.

Before we begin using guestmount we still need to solve the issue with the .vhd file being located in a remote share and not easily downloadable. We can solve this problem by using the mount command, but we will need cifs-utils, so you may need to download that first. You can get this by running this command:

apt-get install cifs-utils

Now that we have all the prerequisites completed, we need to mount the remote share. In order to do this, we need to create a mount point on our Kali file system. I decided to create a directory called “remote” in the “/mnt” directory:

Once we navigate to this directory, we are going to mount the remote share.

When this operation completes, when you list the mount point, you should see the contents of the share. If you don’t, you have to navigate out to an arbitrary directory and navigate back to the mount point.

Now that we solved the remote share problem, we need to now mount the .vhd file within this share. In my particular scenario, I had to navigate deeper into the share until I found the .vhd file.

Before we mount the .vhd file, we need to create another mount point where the contents of .vhd file will reside. I created “vhd” directory within my “/mnt” directory for my mount point.

We can now mount the .vhd file using the following command:

guestmount --add /mnt/remote/path/to/vhdfile.vhd --inspector --ro /mnt/vhd -v

The mounting process may take some time. After it completes, navigate to the location where you mounted the .vhd file and the contents should be there!