xva-img

NAME

xva-img - Citrix XenServer .xva disk extraction tool

SYNOPSIS

xva-img [OPTION] [COMMAND]...

DESCRIPTION

xva-image is a tool to generate disk images from Citrix XenServer .xva VM images as well as to generate .xva VM images from raw disks and the according ova.xml files.

OPTIONS

-h, --help Show summary of options.

-v, --version Show version of program.

-p, --progress Show progress.

-s, --sparse Create sparse files on export.

COMMANDS

package <xva-file> <file> [ ,<file>... ]

disk-export <xva-disk> <disk-image>

disk-import <xva-disk> <disk-image>

EXAMPLES

Extract the XVA file:

$ mkdir my-virtual-machine
$ tar -xf my-virtual-machine.xva -C my-virtual-machine
$ chmod -R 755 my-virtual-machine

Extract one of the disks:

$ xva-img -p disk-export my-virtual-machine/Ref\:1/ disk.raw

Splice the disk file (remove all files in the folder, required not to make any unnecessary mistakes):

$ rm -rf my-virtual-machine/Ref\:1/*
$ xva-img -p disk-import my-virtual-machine/Ref1\:/ disk.raw

Rebuild the XVA file:

$ xva-img -p package my-virtual-machine-fixed.xva my-virtual-machine/ova.xml my-virtual-machine/Ref\:1/

Convert raw image to qcow2:

$ qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 disk.raw disk.qcow2

SEE ALSO

chmod(1), mkdir(1), qemu-img(1), rm(1), tar(1).

AUTHORS

xva-img was written by Erik Lax.

This manpage was written by Francisco Vilmar Cardoso Ruviaro for the Debian project (but may be used by others).