Any way to access disk of broken VM?

[thstraus]

Hi everybody,

I have a project development environment installed on a Lima VM of type "vz" that has been broken and is unresponsive at the step waiting for ssh to come up:

INFO[0601] [hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 1 of 3: "ssh"
INFO[0604] [hostagent] 2024/02/09 15:35:25 tcpproxy: for incoming conn 127.0.0.1:55080, error dialing "192.168.5.15:22": connect tcp 192.168.5.15:22: no route to host

This is not the first time it happens to me, and I don't think I'm the only one. I just started a new VM from scratch. This time I'm having a hard time to get my environment up and it could be helpful if I only could access the disk of the broken VM.

Not sure this is possible, but anyhow I'm asking, in case there are some ideas how I could access the filesystem. Any way to mount it? Any hint is really welcome!

Thanks,

Thomas

[afbjorklund]

• Is there a way to run fsck when boot failed? #2104
• Document how to boot a VM into rescue mode for troubleshooting #2115

[thstraus]

So, I'm not the first asking. Sorry for that and many thanks for the references!

[afbjorklund]

It needs to make its way into the documentation, but should give you some hints to start with