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I have a virtualbox VM that is broken. It won't boot normally. I don't want to bother trying to fix it but I do want to get some files off it that I need.



If I hold down the shift key I can get to a prompt allowing me to boot into recovery mode and from there I can select the option netroot and I'm in. I can get to the files on that machine which I need and the internet works (I can run wget --spider http://example.com succesfully.) So it seems like I should have everything I need to get the files off. But how? I thought about trying to setup an FTP server but I'm wondering if there isn't an easier way.



I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on the host and 10.04LT on the client (VM).


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An easy way would be to enable SSH on your host, then mount a folder via SSH on your VM.



On the host:



sudo apt-get install openssh-server

mkdir ~/vm_backup


On the VM:



apt-get install sshfs

mkdir /mnt/host

sshfs [username]@[host]:/home/[username]/vm_backup /mnt/host


NOTE:




  • Replace [username] with the username on the host.

  • Replace [host] with either the IP address or hostname of the host



Then you can just copy everything you need to /mnt/host



When you are done, if you do not want SSH anymore, simply uninstall it.



sudo apt-get remove openssh-server

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