On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 20:12, Albert Hopkins <mar...@letterboxes.org> wrote: > > > On Thursday, June 23 at 13:45 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said: > >> > Yes the stage4 should work similarly. However Pandu was asking >> about >> > building ".xva" which I know nothing about, unless an .xva is >> similar >> > to/same as a stage4 (I have no idea)? >> >> .xva is a format specifically for Citrix Xen. >> >> There are tools to convert "classic" Xen VMs to "xva" files: >> http://www.xen.org/files/xva/README >> >> I would be willing to assist in getting this tool to work with your >> program. >> All I'd need is a copy of your program along with assistance from >> Pandu Poluan >> to test the resulting XVA files. >> >> I do not run Citrix XenServer and have no need for it as Xen itself >> works fine >> for me. > > Thank you. I downloaded the xva.py script and created a target to > create .xva files. The script appeared to run fine. No errors, but I > cannot verify that the .xva is good. I used hvm and converted the raw > image. The .xva is 4.1G whereras the original raw image is only 414MB > (sparse). The .xva appears to be a tar file, but I guess w/o the -S > flag passed to gnu tar. > > My program is hosted on bitbucket[1]. The documentation for it is > outdated. > > -a > > [1] https://bitbucket.org/marduk/virtual-appliance/wiki/Home
I'll give it a drive tomorrow (already 21:13 here in my country) Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com Google Talk: pepoluan Y! messenger: pepoluan MSN / Live: pepol...@hotmail.com (do not send email here) Skype: pepoluan
