[Libguestfs] Extracting files from OVA is bad

[Roman Kagan]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 03:08:31PM +0300, Roman Kagan wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 01:03:49PM +0200, Tomáš Golembiovský wrote:
> I think something like this can be done for your usecase, e.g. you can
> create qcow2 images with images from the archive as backing files.  One
> possibility to do so is to have a loopback block device on top of the
> archive with appropriate offset and length

Alternatively, you can make one layer less if you teach QEMU raw block
driver to recongnize offset and length options.

Roman.