From e9d8ac3f79f01a1faba1a2c9758b5256daaa15b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Wolff Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 17:09:21 +0200 Subject: extend readme --- README.md | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 962f5d5..02f74ee 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ 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 @@ -13,3 +14,5 @@ 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. + +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). -- cgit v1.2.3