Re: [Libguestfs] [Qemu-devel] [qemu-img] support for XVA
On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 11:07:10AM +0100, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote:
2017-11-16 11:01 GMT+01:00 Richard W.M. Jones
<rjones(a)redhat.com>:
> As mentioned before you can use this to do a qemu-img convert using
> captive nbdkit:
>
> $ nbdkit -U - \
> perl script=./xva-reader.pl file=./debian8cloud.xva size=4294967296 \
> --run 'qemu-img convert -f raw $nbd -O qcow2 /var/tmp/output.qcow2
-p'
What if XVA is hosting 2 or more partitions ? Which partition are you
converting with this command ?
See "XXX" comments in the code, left as an exercise to the reader :-)
Rich.
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