-\textit{In the talk this section will talk about creating a virtual
- disk with a virtual partition table using the nbdkit
- ``partitioning'' plugin.}
+Whereas loopback mounts are limited to a single file, there are
+several nbdkit plugins for combining files. One of them is called the
+``partitioning'' plugin, and it turns partitions into disk images:
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+$ nbdkit partitioning \
+ boot.img \
+ swap.img \
+ root.img
+\end{verbatim}
+
+This time I'll use \texttt{guestfish} to examine this virtual disk:
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+$ guestfish --format=raw -a nbd://localhost -i
+
+Welcome to guestfish, the guest filesystem shell for
+editing virtual machine filesystems and disk images.
+
+Type: ‘help’ for help on commands
+ ‘man’ to read the manual
+ ‘quit’ to quit the shell
+
+Operating system: Fedora 26 (Twenty Six)
+/dev/sda3 mounted on /
+/dev/sda1 mounted on /boot
+
+><fs> list-filesystems
+/dev/sda1: ext4
+/dev/sda2: swap
+/dev/sda3: xfs
+\end{verbatim}
+
+You can see that the NBD disk contains three
+partitions\footnote{\texttt{/dev/sdX} inside libguestfs is equivalent
+ to \texttt{/dev/nbd0} on the host}.