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 ) id 1QZn8d-0007nq-LH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:52:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 703B81C00B; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:49:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 224F01C00B for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:49:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.146] (helo=smtp15.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZn5n-0007rZ-DL for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:49:23 +0200 Received: from 5353c717.cm-6-4d.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([83.83.199.23] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp15.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZn5k-0001KJ-Nu for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:49:20 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FC522921 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:49:28 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6EHFNkRv+jXL for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:49:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E23674BC for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:49:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Joost Roeleveld To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:49:19 +0200 Message-ID: <14709927.3KDTlEEv4W@eve> User-Agent: KMail/4.6 beta5 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1308834735.3657.5.camel@stretch> References: <10149738.9Fez4OoRTa@eve> <1308834735.3657.5.camel@stretch> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1QZn5k-0001KJ-Nu X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-0.851, vereist 5, BAYES_00 -1.90, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, TW_HV 0.08, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.01) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 6298ffce8edb1a97c38093a5a988e908 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