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I'm working from a Mac and need to edit a few lines on a Linux partition. (I need to enable SSH on Raspbian for a Raspberry Pi, but I need to do so effectively headless – I don't have any peripherals that I can use with the device.) I have been working with OSXFuse and trying to get it to work, but I've been unsuccessful.

I was wondering if I could install a virtual machine on OSX and then use a Linux on this VM to make my edits. My caution is that VMs are, to my understanding, slightly abstracted from the hardware. That is, the hardware the VM sees is not necessarily the hardware the host has. Will I be able to make edits this way, or must I find some other workaround?

The partition I need to access is on an SD card.

If this is possible, how can I use this method?

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  • i'm sure you can, though i don't have osx and this link doesn't give a howto cnet.com/how-to/how-to-manage-ext2ext3-disks-in-os-x A more intelligent question would be HOW you connect the host HDD to your Guest OS. Maybe via networking of guest OS and host OS. I hope somebody can provide more of a howto in their answer.
    – barlop
    Commented Dec 27, 2014 at 22:26
  • @barlop Well, now that I know it's possible, the how is a natural next step :) Thanks for the link!
    – Sean Allred
    Commented Dec 27, 2014 at 22:42

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