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On Thursday 23 June 2011 09:12:15 Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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> On Thursday, June 23 at 13:45 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said: |
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> > > Yes the stage4 should work similarly. However Pandu was asking |
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> > about |
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> > > building ".xva" which I know nothing about, unless an .xva is |
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> > similar |
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> > > to/same as a stage4 (I have no idea)? |
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> > .xva is a format specifically for Citrix Xen. |
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> > There are tools to convert "classic" Xen VMs to "xva" files: |
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> > http://www.xen.org/files/xva/README |
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> > I would be willing to assist in getting this tool to work with your |
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> > program. |
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> > All I'd need is a copy of your program along with assistance from |
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> > Pandu Poluan |
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> > to test the resulting XVA files. |
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> > I do not run Citrix XenServer and have no need for it as Xen itself |
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> > works fine |
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> > for me. |
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> Thank you. I downloaded the xva.py script and created a target to |
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> create .xva files. The script appeared to run fine. No errors, but I |
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> cannot verify that the .xva is good. I used hvm and converted the raw |
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> image. The .xva is 4.1G whereras the original raw image is only 414MB |
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> (sparse). The .xva appears to be a tar file, but I guess w/o the -S |
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> flag passed to gnu tar. |
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Yes, that's what I read on the web as well. A tar-file filled with silly-named |
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files and an XML-file containing the configuration. :) |
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> My program is hosted on bitbucket[1]. The documentation for it is |
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> outdated. |
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> -a |
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> [1] https://bitbucket.org/marduk/virtual-appliance/wiki/Home |
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I'll have a look at it later. |
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Joost |
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