Re: [Libguestfs] [Qemu-devel] [qemu-img] support for XVA
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 09:05:00PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
This will give you one offset/size/filename tuple for each file.
The
plugin will then simply need to calculate which file to access to
resolve each virtual file range (or substitute zeroes for missing
files).
By which I mean, of course, that it accesses the offset/size directly
by opening the tar file. The file doesn't have to be extracted.
I'm still interested if you have a small XVA example you can share.
Rich.
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