, tar extract and conversion. It does all of that, at the
same time during the VM export in a single pass.
If someone interested in testing it, it would be apreciated.
2017-11-16 15:02 GMT+01:00 Max Reitz :
> On 2017-11-16 11:08, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote:
>> 2017-11-15 23:55 GMT+0
2017-11-15 23:55 GMT+01:00 Max Reitz :
> https://xanclic.moe/convert-xva.rb -- does this work?
> (It seems to works on the two example images I found...)
>
> An example is in the code, you use it like this:
>
> $ ./convert-xva.rb ~/Downloads/stats-appliance-2.36.020502.xva Ref:73
It doesn't work
2017-11-16 11:01 GMT+01:00 Richard W.M. Jones :
> As mentioned before you can use this to do a qemu-img convert using
> captive nbdkit:
>
> $ nbdkit -U - \
> perl script=./xva-reader.pl file=./debian8cloud.xva size=4294967296 \
> --run 'qemu-img convert -f raw $nbd -O qcow2 /var/tmp/o
Il 15 nov 2017 11:28 PM, "Max Reitz" ha scritto:
Hmmm, that gives me a timeout when downloading. And another image I got
gives me an "argument list too long" -- which I had feared already...
It has a size of 3 MB and Linux "only" allows 2...
https://cloud.vates.fr/index.php/s/jynIvCjhso47nR8/d
https://stacklet.com/downloads/XenServer-XVA-Template-Debian-7.8-Lightweight-x86
Some XVAs
Il 15 nov 2017 10:42 PM, "Gandalf Corvotempesta" <
gandalf.corvotempe...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> I'm thinking on how to prove you a sample XVA
> I have to create (and popu
I'm thinking on how to prove you a sample XVA
I have to create (and populate) a VM because an empty image will result in
an empty XVA
And a VM is 300-400Mb as minimum
Il 15 nov 2017 10:30 PM, "Max Reitz" ha scritto:
> On 2017-11-15 21:41, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote:
> >
2017-11-15 21:29 GMT+01:00 Richard W.M. Jones :
> Gandalf, is there an XVA file publically available (pref. not
> too big) that we can look at?
I can try to provide one, but it's simple:
# tar tvf 20160630_124823_aa72_.xva.gz | head -n 50
-- 0/0 42353 1970-01-01 01:00 ova.xml
--
2017-11-15 20:59 GMT+01:00 Max Reitz :
> Well, you can't just add support to qemu-img alone either. Every image
> format supported by qemu-img is one supported by qemu as a whole and
> thus needs a proper block driver that needs to support random accesses
> as well.
I was talking about qemu-img c
ritto:
[adding libguestfs]
On 11/15/2017 09:52 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote:
> I'm thinking if support for XVA files could be added to qemu-img
> The file-format is well known (it's just a tar archive) and there are
scripts
> that are able to convert an XVA file to a RAW ima
I'm thinking if support for XVA files could be added to qemu-img
The file-format is well known (it's just a tar archive) and there are scripts
that are able to convert an XVA file to a RAW image. (ie:
https://gist.github.com/miebach/0433947bcf053de23159)
Running these script on their own is very t
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