Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

[Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>]

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outdated.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