From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-124665-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1QZjlE-0001bu-9r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:15:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 76E8D1C112; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:12:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35E4B1C112 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:12:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.46]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA313207F1 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:12:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:12:15 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=subject:from:to:date:in-reply-to:references:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:mime-version; s=smtpout; bh=jaqrzn2Q3e85HHK9MuWHw0mwKKA=; b=gRwpeGvsMVG/wORz6A36WKPmkWOHnwtNiVGj0aqvyta6IiBwryGy24ve8qg5RreW/bSmJ+B+Jwu7aufFo2LfwEB4zl/MopaPOxqG1fN494Xj/sMKzT3E2Sbj6jG1aWb+YeVhEhacYIyDfxk0dmX9BdTRIY4meaPR+5FBF3C1//g= X-Sasl-enc: gZRfVdMg6BwzNVURag//PvP8qxmTnM0k63vpaUg3H21K 1308834735 Received: from [192.168.31.28] (cpe-174-109-037-078.nc.res.rr.com [174.109.37.78]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8057A445F13 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:12:15 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:12:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <10149738.9Fez4OoRTa@eve> References: <gFkQjNs3Gw9S.TqHG8vwF@smtp.gmail.com> <48478426.vrnISNt4Jx@eve> <1308827918.71397.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> <10149738.9Fez4OoRTa@eve> Face: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1308834735.3657.5.camel@stretch> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 40cc4c393dc4f6b084a4449e49993125 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