Live View

News:

Live View 0.7b is now available for download

Version 0.7 added support for Vista and Server 2008, 0.7b was a maintenance release. For more information, see the changelog

We appreciate the feedback and encourage you to continue to report bugs and make suggestions to help make this tool more useful for everyone. The best way to do this is to post to the forums

Live View is a Java-based graphical forensics tool that creates a VMware virtual machine out of a raw (dd-style) disk image or physical disk. This allows the forensic examiner to "boot up" the image or disk and gain an interactive, user-level perspective of the environment, all without modifying the underlying image or disk. Because all changes made to the disk are written to a separate file, the examiner can instantly revert all of his or her changes back to the original pristine state of the disk. The end result is that one need not create extra "throw away" copies of the disk or image to create the virtual machine.

Live View is capable of booting

Full disk raw images

Bootable partition raw images

Physical Disks (attached via a USB or Firewire bridge)

Specialized and closed image formats (using 3rd party image mounting software)

Containing the following operating systems

Windows 2008, Vista, 2003, XP, 2000, NT, Me, 98

Linux (limited support)

Behind the scenes, Live View automates a wide array of technical tasks. Some of these include: resolving hardware conflicts resulting from booting on hardware other than that on which the OS was originally installed; creating a customized MBR for partition-only images; and correctly specifying a virtual disk to match the original image or physical disk.