Re: [Qemu-block] [Libguestfs] [Qemu-devel] [qemu-img] support for XVA

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 populate)

Re: [Qemu-block] [Libguestfs] [Qemu-devel] [qemu-img] support for XVA

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...

Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [qemu-img] support for XVA

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

Re: [Qemu-block] [Libguestfs] [Qemu-devel] [qemu-img] support for XVA

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" <mre...@redhat.com> ha scritto: > On 2017-11-15 21:41, Gandalf Corvotempe

Re: [Qemu-block] [Libguestfs] [Qemu-devel] [qemu-img] support for XVA

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

Re: [Qemu-block] [Libguestfs] [Qemu-devel] [qemu-img] support for XVA

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 <mre...@redhat.com>: > On 2017-11-16 11:08, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: >> 2017-11-15

Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [Libguestfs] [qemu-img] support for XVA

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

Re: [Qemu-block] [Libguestfs] [Qemu-devel] [qemu-img] support for XVA

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