On Monday, 1 August 2016 18:46:44 UTC-4, Andrew "Arthur" Summers wrote: > Does Xen have a native import/export format? I'm WAY more familiar with > VMware offerings (which handle loads of formats), but if there's a way to add > OVA import to Qubes down the road, I'd be in love. Heck, if there's an add-on > or a command to run from Dom0 that I could use now, I'm down. > > > On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 5:43 PM <fmu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday, 29 July 2016 20:12:45 UTC-4, arthur....@gmail.com wrote: > > > I agree with the idea of having an option for a storage VM, but my > > agreement goes a little deeper (and forks a bit). I know that the primary > > goal of Qubes is security, but there are a lot of different use cases for > > it. I use it because I like the compartmentalization provided by VMs. > > Security is almost a secondary for me - I wanted a bare-metal client > > hypervisor. Since XenClient no longer exists and no other offerings are > > well maintained, I landed on Qubes. For my purposes, sharing storage would > > be great, but baking it in DOES defeat the primary goals of the project. > > > > > > Personally, I'm a huge fan of Turnkey Linux (http://turnkeylinux.org), and > > I use their stuff regularly to stand up infrastructure components or for > > testing. They have a fileserver VM, and it's pretty beautiful. Actually, > > all of their stuff is pretty beautiful. However, unless I missed something, > > I don't see an easy way to import an OVA/VMDK into Qubes. If that existed, > > I'd be happier than a dog with eight legs (yes, I said that). This would > > solve a lot of use cases, simplify the creation of third party HVMs, and > > still maintain the goals of the project. > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > I don't know about OVAs, but I imported a Virtualbox VM. If you search for > virtualbox you'll find the post with the procedure. Maybe this link will > work: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qubes-users/YQyRSoRQWCU
I haven't tested this. But it seems you just untar the OVA and then convert the disk with qemu-img -S 4k -f vmdk -O raw image.vdi image.raw -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/18f26322-790f-4c40-86b5-1be4a736aa15%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
