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   5 <h1>OVA files</h1>
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   9 ┌───guest.ova──────────┐
  10 │ guest.ovf            │
  11 │                      │
  12 │ disk1.raw (or .vmdk) │
  13 │                      │
  14 └──────────────────────┘
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  18 tar file = header - file - header - file ...
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  22 ┌──────────┐      ┌────────────┐      ┌────────────┐
  23 │ test.ova │─────▶│ tar filter │─────▶│ qcow2 file │
  24 └──────────┘      └────────────┘      └────────────┘
  25                                  ◀─── virt-sparsify --in-place
  26                                                             ┌───────────┐
  27                                  ───▶ qemu-img convert ────▶│ local.img │
  28                                                             └───────────┘
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