Decompress/Extract VMA files offline

lukewoot

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Hey everyone. I have some .vma.lzo server images that I need to extract for forensics analysis. I use lzop to get to just the .vma file, but I'm finding it difficult to decompress further. My analysis machines is disconnected from the internet so I need to find a way to get the vma extract tool, or qmrestore tool, (whichever works) onto my forensics terminal. Any ideas? Thanks for the info!
 
hi,

if you add the PVE repositories [0] on a Debian machine you can do apt-get download pve-qemu-kvm and take the vma binary from the .deb file. you might also need to install dependencies libiscsi7 librbd1 libgfapi0 libjemalloc2

hope this helps!

[0]: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Package_Repositories
 
hi,

if you add the PVE repositories [0] on a Debian machine you can do apt-get download pve-qemu-kvm and take the vma binary from the .deb file. you might also need to install dependencies libiscsi7 librbd1 libgfapi0 libjemalloc2

hope this helps!

[0]: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Package_Repositories
Is there a manual way to get this and install them? My debian machines is not connected to the internet so I have to download certain dependencies manually on a windows machine, and transfer them to my debian machine.
 
Is there a manual way to get this and install them? My debian machines is not connected to the internet so I have to download certain dependencies manually on a windows machine, and transfer them to my debian machine.
the dependencies are from the regular debian repositories, only pve-qemu-kvm is needed from PVE repositories (you can also download it manually from [0])

[0]: http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve/dists/buster/pve-no-subscription/binary-amd64/
 
the dependencies are from the regular debian repositories, only pve-qemu-kvm is needed from PVE repositories (you can also download it manually from [0])

[0]: http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve/dists/buster/pve-no-subscription/binary-amd64/
I've been able to download the pve-qemu-kvm, install the repositories and extract the vma binary. When I try to run it I get "vma: error whlie loading shared libraries: libproxmox_backup_qemu.so.0: cannot open share object file: No such file or directory". I can't seem to find any information on that library?
 
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When I try to run it I get "vma: error whlie loading shared libraries: libproxmox_backup_qemu.so.0: cannot open share object file: No such file or directory". I can't seem to find any information on that library?
you can install libproxmox-backup-qemu0 package from pve-no-subscription
 

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