<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Derek Atkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:derek@ihtfp.com" target="_blank">derek@ihtfp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<span class="gmail-"><br>
Arik Hadas <<a href="mailto:ahadas@redhat.com">ahadas@redhat.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> Hi everyone,<br>
><br>
> We would like to share our plan for extending the currently provided support<br>
> for OVA files with:<br>
> 1. Support for uploading OVA.<br>
> 2. Support for exporting a VM/template as OVA.<br>
> 3. Support for importing OVA that was generated by oVirt (today, we only<br>
> support those that are VMware-compatible).<br>
> 4. Support for downloading OVA.<br>
><br>
> This can be found on the feature page.<br>
><br>
> Your feedback and cooperation will be highly appreciated.<br>
<br>
</span>Sounds like a great plan.<br>
<br>
What's the chance that the export would enable an OVA that could be<br>
loaded back into VMware?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm afraid that would be too costly.</div><div>As far as I know, there are pretty good conversion tools for converting VMs from KVM to VMware today [1] (which, btw, I consider to be a strength as Eduardo mentioned before. we certainly not in favor of vendor lock-in). It would only make sense for them to support converting the OVA we produce, much like we extended virt-v2v for converting VMware's OVA not long ago - and I'm pretty sure they won't object to do this, they have all the building blocks - getting a VM as a single archive that complies with the OVA standard should make it easy for them). </div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJedam7TJWo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJedam7TJWo</a> (the relevant part starts at 14:40)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> Thanks,<br>
> Arik<br>
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-derek<br>
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