So MDX is a disk image format created by Daemontools. Its fairly uncommon but i came across it today and refused to restart my computer because im hard headed like that. So instead i booted up a virtual machine of windows 7 that i have lying around.

Once Guest Additions have been installed its a breeze to transfer files between your hard disk and the virtual machine. So i transfered the MDX and found myself unable to extract it because my virtual disk image was out of space.... So hell i extracted straight out of the virtual machine.  Fun stuff.

Took a little while and frustration to figure it out. But yea there does not seem to be any other method of access the file type without daemon tools.

That's because there is no native support for mdx files as of now. The idea has been added to Ubuntu's brainstorm but I doubt this will take shape any time soon as it hasn't been requested very often in the forums of other distros.


Edit: It was also created by Blizzard for use in Warcraft 3 (who knew?)

Lol wrong MDX. There are a few of them floating around.. meh. And it wont get implemented. It would be too much work for such a minor image format.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdemu/  looks like it might support mdx for linux.

Maybe daemon-tools would run under wine? Just found out a week ago that Angry Birds runs under wine

Any work is too much work for something useless?

Quote from: antimatter15 on April 24, 2011, 11:29:08 PM

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdemu/  looks like it might support mdx for linux.

.B6T, .CCD, .CDI, .CUE, .ISO, .MDS, .NRG, .TOC support.
No mdx lol

Yeah, wikipedia links to the source code of it for a specification of MDX, and from what I understand, they are pretty much the same thing.

MDX is actually more powerful than ISO, because it also contains the cue sheet. So you could store your (for example) audio disc in a single MDX file as opposed to a data file and a cue file. You can think of it as a dual-mode image.