Extract Virtual Disks with 7zip
Virtual Machines
Extract virtual disks without mounting a VM.
With 7zip it’s possible to extract virtual disk files without having to mount a new VM, this also includes WSL since it also uses a virtual disk.
7-Zip 24.09 (2024-11-29)
Supported formats:
Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM Unpacking only: APFS, AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VHDX, VMDK, XAR and Z. For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip