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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:13:59 +0700
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
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On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 20:12, Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> wrot=
e:
>
>
> On Thursday, June 23 at 13:45 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said:
>
>> > Yes the stage4 should work similarly. =C2=A0However 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. =C2=A0The script appeared to run fine. =C2=A0No errors=
, but I
> cannot verify that the .xva is good. =C2=A0I used hvm and converted the r=
aw
> image. =C2=A0The .xva is 4.1G whereras the original raw image is only 414=
MB
> (sparse). =C2=A0The .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]. =C2=A0The documentation for it is
> outdated.
>
> -a
>
> [1] https://bitbucket.org/marduk/virtual-appliance/wiki/Home
I'll give it a drive tomorrow (already 21:13 here in my country)
Rgds,
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