Until recently VCS has only been tested on Linux which, whith the GNU toolset, differs considerably from other UNIX-like OSes. These are some notes on the compatibility status.
The first and main target for compatibility is FreeBSD
Experimental compatibility introduced in 1.0.100a.
Compatibility modifications (from the Full changelog):
/bin/bash
vcs
works on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE but the output is still less refined than on Linux. See http://outlyer.net/2009-03-25:vcs-working-on-freebsd/.
The output on FreeBSD 8.0 matches the one on Linux so it might be some (minor) problem with ImageMagick's arguments.
Notes/References
# mdconfig -a -t vnode -f file.iso
. Only root can set up loopbacks?