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 supported by qemu as a whole and
>> thus needs a proper block driver that needs to support ran
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 talking about qemu-img c
On 2017-11-15 18:44, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote:
> XVA is a tar archive.
> I don't think would be possible to directly use the image stored inside
> without extracting and merging each chunks
>
> Any random reads would be impossible to do, only a huge sequential dump to
> build the raw image
Wel
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 04:52:56PM +0100, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote:
> I'm thinking if support for XVA files could be added to qemu-img
> The file-format is well known (it's just a tar archive) and there are scripts
> that are able to convert an XVA file to a RAW image. (ie:
> https://gist.github
XVA is a tar archive.
I don't think would be possible to directly use the image stored inside
without extracting and merging each chunks
Any random reads would be impossible to do, only a huge sequential dump to
build the raw image
Il 15 nov 2017 6:33 PM, "Eric Blake" ha scritto:
[adding libgue
[adding libguestfs]
On 11/15/2017 09:52 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote:
> I'm thinking if support for XVA files could be added to qemu-img
> The file-format is well known (it's just a tar archive) and there are scripts
> that are able to convert an XVA file to a RAW image. (ie:
> https://gist.git
I'm thinking if support for XVA files could be added to qemu-img
The file-format is well known (it's just a tar archive) and there are scripts
that are able to convert an XVA file to a RAW image. (ie:
https://gist.github.com/miebach/0433947bcf053de23159)
Running these script on their own is very t
