livebtfs

LIVEBTFS (bittorrent to access to remote OS)

What is this?

With LiveBTFS, you can mount any .torrent file or magnet link and then use it as any read-only directory in your file tree. The needed bytes of the files will be downloaded only when they are read by applications. Tools like ls, cat and cp works as expected.

LiveBTFS is optimized to access to remote OS

It is based on btfs (https://github.com/johang/btfs)

Example usage

• Download the torrent of the VM (example : an iso of Kali Linux)

    $ wget https://kali.download/base-images/kali-2022.1/kali-linux-2022.1-live-amd64.iso.torrent

• Create a mount point

    $ mkdir -p mnt/kali

• Mount the VM

    $ livebtfs -f kali-linux-2022.1-live-amd64.iso.torrent mnt/kali

The iso file is "mnt/kali/kali-linux-2022.1-live-amd64.iso"

• Start the VM with your Hypervisor (example : qemu)

    $ qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 -cdrom mnt/kali/kali-linux-2022.1-live-amd64.iso -enable-kvm -usb -device usb-tablet

• To unmount and shutdown:

    $ fusermount -u mnt/kali

Dependencies (on Linux)

• fuse : "fuse" in Debian / Ubuntu
• libtorrent : "libtorrent-rasterbar2.0" in Debian / Ubuntu
• libcurl : "libcurl4" in Debian / Ubuntu

Building from git on a recent Debian/Ubuntu

    $ sudo apt-get install make g++ libfuse-dev libtorrent-rasterbar-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev gzip
    $ git clone https://github.com/Raizo62/livebtfs.git livebtfs
    $ cd livebtfs
    $ make

And optionally, if you want to install it:

    $ make install