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).
