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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Libguestfs] [qemu-img] support for XVA


From: Richard W.M. Jones
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Libguestfs] [qemu-img] support for XVA
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:15:11 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10)

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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