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

[Richard W.M. Jones]

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 <address@hidden>:
> > 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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