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 The documentation for it is outdated.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
