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VMA extractor
=============
-`vma.py` implements a VMA extraction tool in Python 3.
+`vma.py` implements an extraction tool for the VMA backup format used by
+[Proxmox](https://www.proxmox.com). The tool is implemented in Python3.
Usage:
```sh
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tool proved difficult. VMA-Reader and VMA-Writer are implemented as patches to
the Proxmox-patched version and Qemu and are thus very difficult to compile on
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).