How to mount a VirtualBox vdi image as a drive in linux

#install tools
$ sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm

#load module
$ sudo modprobe nbd

#create loopback dev for the image
$ sudo qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 <image>.vdi

#mount the partitions, that are exposed as /dev/nbd0pXXX
$ sudo mount  -o noatime,noexec /dev/nbd0p1  /tmp/vdi/

#in the end unmount && shutdown the ndb
$ sudo umount /tmp/vdi/
$ sudo qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0

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