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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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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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