From 940fe79cafbf9e8d262af3bc0db56269c2bf74ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Wolff Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 09:35:42 +0200 Subject: initial commit --- README.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..962f5d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +VMA extractor +============= + +`vma.py` implements a VMA extraction tool in Python 3. + +Usage: +```sh +./vma.py path/to/source.vma path/to/target/directory +``` + +I think it is pretty important to be able to read Proxmox backups outside of a +Proxmox environment. Yet, porting their VMA implementation to a standalone +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. -- cgit v1.2.3