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2016 Sep 09
2
Extracting files from OVA is bad
Hi,
recently we (oVirt) have started discussing whether the way virt-v2v
handles import from OVA files is good. And I would be interested in
ideas how it can be improved. It is likely somebody already gave some
thought to this problem.
TL;DR: Extracting the OVA before import is a problem for large VMs (in
sizes of TBs). Can we change something to prevent the extraction and
work directly over
2016 Sep 09
0
Re: Extracting files from OVA is bad
...hive.org/ can do, and that
package is also in RHEL.
We could even imagine a qemu block backend based on libarchive.
> 3) Solve it on oVirt side: use some FUSE-based tool to provide
> access to the archive and pass the OVA to virt-v2v not as a file but
> as directory.
http://www.cybernoia.de/software/archivemount/ is one such tool which
can do this. It's not in RHEL, but it seems to be based on
libarchive.
Rich.
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