Download and install the latest version of Filestar.
Right click on one or more Img file(s) on your desktop and select Convert with Filestar.
Type convert to xz in the search box.
Press Convert.
Or let an AI agent do it: filestarcli -i photo.img -c "convert to xz" (how).
Let your AI agent convert Android Vbmeta Image to XZ
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents can do this on your computer with Filestar. Your files stay on your machine.
Install Filestar and add it to your agents:
npm install -g filestar
filestarcli agent install
Then ask your agent:
“Convert the Android Vbmeta Image files in my Downloads folder to XZ”
Or run it yourself:
filestarcli -i photo.img -c "convert to xz"
Runs on your computer, so your files stay on it. Works on Windows, macOS and Linux. 50 free conversions with the npm install, no account needed.
Can my AI agent convert Android Vbmeta Image to XZ?
Yes. Install the Filestar CLI with npm install -g filestar and your agent can run filestarcli -i photo.img -c "convert to xz" on your computer, so your files stay on it.
An Android vbmeta image (vbmeta.img) holds the Android Verified Boot metadata - hashes, signatures and descriptors of the boot partition images - written by avbtool; flashing tools take it wrapped in a .tar.
Commonly used for Linux software distribution, XZ files are archive files compressed with XZ compression algorithm. It may hold one or more compressed files.
