How to Install and Uninstall xva-img Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: February 01,2025

1. Install "xva-img" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install xva-img on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                xva-img
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "xva-img" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall xva-img on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                xva-img
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the xva-img package on Kali Linux

Package: xva-img
Version: 1.5-1
Installed-Size: 62
Maintainer: Francisco Vilmar Cardoso Ruviaro
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libssl3 (>= 3.0.0), libstdc++6 (>= 13.1), libxxhash0 (>= 0.6.5)
Size: 21528
SHA256: 4064da4ba5260b2a67cb4d3fdb4ed825462424347591cdf97efdd15516cc0aaf
SHA1: 81e1df0be90952f54fab55ec5d6b317ec98711c8
MD5sum: b4ee2d40ff8c155242021378805cb680
Description: Citrix XenServer .xva disk extraction tool
xva-image is a tool to generate disk images from Citrix XenServer .xva
VM images as well as to generate .xva VM images from raw disks and the
according ova.xml files.
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It's for example needed if you want to forensically analyse a virtual
machine in .xva format on a non-Citrix operating system.
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Citrix Xen uses a custom virtual appliance format for import/export
called "XVA". it's basically a strangely crafted tar-file. You don't
need this program to unpack this tar-file, just use your favourite tar
unpacker (tar, gtar, bsdtar). Once unpacked you will end up with a lot
of different files, ova.xml (which contains the settings for the virtual
appliance, think VMware vmx) and a number of folders called Ref:/,
this is your disks. Each of these folders contain hundreds of files named
00000000, 00000001 with a accompanying .CHECKSUM file (SHA1).
Each file is a 1MB slice of the disk, but some of the files in the sequence
will probably be missing this is because XVA do not use compression; instead
it will exclude slices of the disk that only contains zeros (are empty).
This tool can assemble the disk for you (you will end up with a RAW disk)
that can easily be mounted and modified. It can then also split the file again
and generate checksum. Once ready, you will probably want to use the "package"
command to rebuild the XVA file.
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://github.com/eriklax/xva-img
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/x/xva-img/xva-img_1.5-1_amd64.deb