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

[Joost Roeleveld <joost@antarean.org>]

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 outdated.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