diff --git a/proxmox/src/tools/mmap.rs b/proxmox/src/tools/mmap.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dd2347aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/proxmox/src/tools/mmap.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+//! Memory mapping helpers.
+
+use std::convert::TryFrom;
+use std::os::unix::io::RawFd;
+use std::{io, mem, ptr};
+
+use nix::sys::mman;
+
+use crate::sys::error::{io_err_other, SysError};
+
+pub struct Mmap<T> {
+    data: *mut T,
+    len: usize,
+}
+
+unsafe impl<T> Send for Mmap<T> where T: Send {}
+unsafe impl<T> Sync for Mmap<T> where T: Sync {}
+
+impl<T> Mmap<T> {
+    pub unsafe fn map_fd(
+        fd: RawFd,
+        ofs: u64,
+        count: usize,
+        prot: mman::ProtFlags,
+        flags: mman::MapFlags,
+    ) -> io::Result<Self> {
+        let byte_len = count * mem::size_of::<T>();
+        let data = mman::mmap(
+            ptr::null_mut(),
+            libc::size_t::try_from(byte_len).map_err(io_err_other)?,
+            prot,
+            flags,
+            fd,
+            libc::off_t::try_from(ofs).map_err(io_err_other)?,
+        )
+        .map_err(SysError::into_io_error)?;
+
+        Ok(Self {
+            data: data as *mut T,
+            len: count,
+        })
+    }
+}
+
+impl<T> std::ops::Deref for Mmap<T> {
+    type Target = [T];
+
+    #[inline]
+    fn deref(&self) -> &[T] {
+        unsafe { std::slice::from_raw_parts(self.data, self.len) }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<T> std::ops::DerefMut for Mmap<T> {
+    #[inline]
+    fn deref_mut(&mut self) -> &mut [T] {
+        unsafe { std::slice::from_raw_parts_mut(self.data, self.len) }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<T> Drop for Mmap<T> {
+    fn drop(&mut self) {
+        unsafe {
+            // In theory this can fail if too many memory mappings are already present and
+            // unmapping a smaller region inside a bigger one, causing it to become split into 2
+            // regions. But then we have bigger problems already anyway, so we'll just ignore this.
+            let _ = mman::munmap(self.data as *mut libc::c_void, self.len * mem::size_of::<T>());
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<'a, T> IntoIterator for &'a Mmap<T> {
+    type Item = &'a T;
+    type IntoIter = <&'a [T] as IntoIterator>::IntoIter;
+
+    fn into_iter(self) -> Self::IntoIter {
+        <&'a [T] as IntoIterator>::into_iter(self)
+    }
+}
diff --git a/proxmox/src/tools/mod.rs b/proxmox/src/tools/mod.rs
index 4e3095e7..6d39410c 100644
--- a/proxmox/src/tools/mod.rs
+++ b/proxmox/src/tools/mod.rs
@@ -8,15 +8,16 @@ use lazy_static::lazy_static;
 pub mod as_any;
 pub mod borrow;
 pub mod common_regex;
+pub mod constnamemap;
 pub mod fd;
 pub mod fs;
 pub mod io;
+pub mod mmap;
 pub mod parse;
 pub mod serde;
+pub mod time;
 pub mod uuid;
 pub mod vec;
-pub mod time;
-pub mod constnamemap;
 
 #[doc(inline)]
 pub use uuid::Uuid;