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VMA extractor
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`vma.py` implements an extraction tool for the VMA backup format used by
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[Proxmox](https://www.proxmox.com). The tool is implemented in Python3.
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Usage:
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```sh
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./vma.py path/to/source.vma path/to/target/directory
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```
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I think it is pretty important to be able to read Proxmox backups outside of a
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Proxmox environment. Yet, porting their VMA implementation to a standalone
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tool proved difficult. VMA-Reader and VMA-Writer are implemented as patches to
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the Proxmox-patched version and Qemu and are thus very difficult to compile on
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non-Proxmox systems.
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The format specification can be found on [git.proxmox.com](https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-qemu.git;a=blob_plain;f=vma_spec.txt;hb=refs/heads/master).
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