Mount qcow2 to Ubuntu host: ============================= Temporally create qemu-nbd mount points by: sudo modprobe nbd sudo qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 -f qcow2 "My drive.qcow2" sudo qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0 *Also eject the partition to fully remove. To unmount nbd driver from system: Option 1: Run #sudo modprobe -r nbd Option 2: Reboot host to clear all /dev/nbdX drives. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sources: https://askubuntu.com/questions/4396/how-do-i-mount-a-qcow2-disk-image https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/tools/qemu-nbd.html https://phoenixnap.com/kb/modprobe-command Date: March 30th 2024 Update (July 23rd, 2024): (Figured out how to un-mount nbd driver).