On Thursday 23 June 2011 09:12:15 Albert Hopkins 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.
Yes, that's what I read on the web as well. A tar-file filled with silly-named files and an XML-file containing the configuration. :) > 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 outdated.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 have a look at it later. -- Joost
