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

I did something different, that will build a raw image directly from a xenserver export, on the fly. Compared the resulting file (via MD5) with xenmygrate.py and there is a match. Currently, this is the faster way to convert a XenServer image to a raw file. Don't need to wait for export, tar

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

On 2017-11-16 11:08, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > 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: >> >> $

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

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

On 2017-11-15 23:55, Max Reitz wrote: > On 2017-11-15 23:28, Max Reitz wrote: >> On 2017-11-15 22:50, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: >>> https://stacklet.com/downloads/XenServer-XVA-Template-Debian-7.8-Lightweight-x86 >> >> Hmmm, that gives me a timeout when downloading. And another image I got >>

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

On 2017-11-15 23:28, Max Reitz wrote: > On 2017-11-15 22:50, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: >> https://stacklet.com/downloads/XenServer-XVA-Template-Debian-7.8-Lightweight-x86 > > Hmmm, that gives me a timeout when downloading. And another image I got > gives me an "argument list too long" --

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] [Libguestfs] [Qemu-devel] [qemu-img] support for XVA

On 2017-11-15 22:50, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > https://stacklet.com/downloads/XenServer-XVA-Template-Debian-7.8-Lightweight-x86 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

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) a VM because an empty

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" ha scritto: > On 2017-11-15 21:41, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > >

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

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 10:30:31PM +0100, Max Reitz wrote: > Hmmm... OK, so as Rich said, you can use the raw driver with an offset > and a size. And you can use the null-co driver to emulate holes. And > qemu-img convert supports concatenation. Nice, I didn't know qemu-img convert could

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

On 2017-11-15 22:50, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > https://stacklet.com/downloads/XenServer-XVA-Template-Debian-7.8-Lightweight-x86 > > Some XVAs Thanks! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 10:42:42PM +0100, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > 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 That's fine to download. Also you could compress

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

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

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

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 09:27:14PM +0100, Max Reitz wrote: > On 2017-11-15 21:24, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 09:07:12PM +0100, Max Reitz wrote: > >> On 2017-11-15 21:06, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > >>> 2017-11-15 20:59 GMT+01:00 Max Reitz : >

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

On 2017-11-15 21:24, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 09:07:12PM +0100, Max Reitz wrote: >> On 2017-11-15 21:06, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: >>> 2017-11-15 20:59 GMT+01:00 Max Reitz : Well, you can't just add support to qemu-img alone either. Every

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

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 09:07:12PM +0100, Max Reitz wrote: > On 2017-11-15 21:06, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > > 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