I am not able to mount the .iso of Ubuntu on my MacBook Pro with OS X Mavericks.

I tried double click, Disk Utility and also Terminal but the image just won't mount nor work.

When using double click it says no mountable file systems.

When using Disk Utility it says unable to attach ubuntu-12.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso (no mountable file systems).

When using Terminal, I was able to create ubuntu.img.dmg but it won't mount or install either and the message is similar.

What should I do ?

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The MacOS has no internal system for mounting .iso image files. There may be third-party solutions for doing so (I have not searched for or needed any to make recommendations). Disk Utility will let you burn the .iso image to disc - drag the .iso file to the bottom of the Sources list in Disk Utility, select it, Control-click it and select "Burn to disc" from the contextual menu. The 12.04 release .iso will likely require burning to a DVD. After burning, the disc will be mountable.

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In my case, even after burning to a DVD using Disk Utility, it still would not mount, so instead I simply converted the iso to dmg:

hdiutil convert ~/Download/ubuntu-12.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso -format UDRW -o ~/Download/ubuntu-12.04.3-desktop-amd64.dmg

Then I used the dmg as the disk image file for DVD in my virtual machine.

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