[Libguestfs] Virtualbox vdi Input Format and man pages

stef204 stef204 at yandex.com
Sun Oct 8 22:41:48 UTC 2017



08.10.2017, 16:00, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com>:

>
> Guests consist of the disk images, plus copious metadata.
>
> When you give just the disk image to virt-v2v (‘-i disk disk.img’), it
> has to make many guesses about the metadata. See this file for
> details:
> https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/v2v/input_disk.ml
>
> Sometimes these guesses will be suboptimal, and by supplying the
> correct metadata you can get a more correct conversion (‘-i libvirtxml’
> or even better getting the true metadata from VirtualBox).
>

OK, thanks a lot for your helpful feedback, most appreciated.




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