How to Install and Uninstall xva-img Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "xva-img" package

Please follow the instructions below to install xva-img on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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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

Learn how to uninstall xva-img on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: xva-img
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.4.1-4
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Francisco Vilmar Cardoso Ruviaro
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 57
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
Filename: pool/universe/x/xva-img/xva-img_1.4.1-4_amd64.deb
Size: 18252
MD5sum: 2b3014ea46786fef440cd6ce0d49a5ae
SHA1: 7d8b32c4a2a88369f2326e92acc56b604ad89dde
SHA256: 04333208029127275f403a5b875b89b813af2ff26dbbdc2ec67de24ac89c3378
SHA512: da28d3822b7acb746417bb71634f28d10f899d870dd2fda81c5b98a0e80713124e5baa972d43c389600ec4f25009cbff6b1389e78147c8fd743c44f6420d2877
Homepage: https://github.com/eriklax/xva-img
Description-en: 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: 49b2029d55d45c8aa5e480cd177bc5a0