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multidisk-boxgrinder-plugin

This platform plugin converts the RAW appliance disk to VMDK Sparse, VMDK StreamOptimized, QCOW2 Sparse and QCow2 Compressed Sparse.

Installation

gem install multidisk-boxgrinder-plugin

Needs VirtualBox installed to convert from VMDK Sparse to VMDK StreamOptimized.

Usage

boxgrinder-build -p multidisk f15-jeos.appl -l multidisk-boxgrinder-plugin

After the build has finished, you'll find the additional disk formats under build/appliances/x86_64/fedora/15/f15-jeos/1.0/multidisk-plugin

$ ls build/appliances/x86_64/fedora/15/f15-jeos/1.0/multidisk-plugin/
f15-jeos-compressed.qcow2  f15-jeos-sparse.qcow2  f15-jeos-sparse.vmdk  f15-jeos-streamoptimized.vmdk

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2011 Sergio Rubio. See LICENSE.txt for further details.