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    <p><font face="Liberation Serif">Hello Arik,</font></p>
    <p><font face="Liberation Serif">Interesting..</font><br>
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      <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Liberation Serif">I was
          thinking that, by converting to OVA appliance, we can release
          our product as appliance that will work on Xen, VMWare or KVM.
          Now OVA works both on Xen and VMWare and both can be
          interchanged with each other. <br>
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      <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Liberation Serif">Do you
          mean to say that both Xen and VMWare have written specific
          parsers to convert the disk formats amongst each other.</font></p>
      <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Liberation Serif">Xen, I
          am talking about Citrix Xen.<br>
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      <p>--</p>
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          New Roman, serif">Thanks
          &amp; Regards,</font></p>
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      <address style="line-height: 100%"><font face="Times New Roman,
          serif">Anantha
          Raghava</font></address>
      <address style="line-height: 100%"><font face="Times New Roman,
          serif">eXzaTech Consulting And Services Pvt. Ltd.</font></address>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Sunday 12 February 2017 06:27 PM,
      Arik Hadas wrote:<br>
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          <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 2:37 PM,
            Anantha Raghava <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a
                moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="mailto:raghav@exzatechconsulting.com"
                target="_blank">raghav@exzatechconsulting.com</a>&gt;</span>
            wrote:<br>
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                <p><font face="Liberation Serif">Hello Arik,</font></p>
                <p><font face="Liberation Serif">Converting to an
                    appliance (OVA) makes the VM portable. Works on
                    multiple hypervisor. VM migration and
                    interoperability becomes uncomplicated.</font></p>
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            <div>Thanks Anantha.</div>
            <div>That's true only to some extent.</div>
            <div>For example, without converting OVA that was generated
              by VMware using virt-v2v oVirt cannot consume it since the
              VMDK disks format is not supported in oVirt. Another
              example is the OVF representation that differs among
              various virtualization management platforms.</div>
            <div>So if you are trying to migrate a VM from oVirt to
              another platform and assume you'll get this out-of-the-box
              by having an OVA that is generated by oVirt, I'm afraid
              you'll be disappointed in case the target platform doesn't
              support the format of the disks or doesn't know how to
              parse the OVF that is generated by oVirt.</div>
            <div>And there may be more use cases for exporting the VM as
              OVA, that's why I'm interested to know<span
                style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> what's the goal
                in this case</span> :)</div>
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                  <p>-- </p>
                  <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"><font
                      face="Times New Roman, serif">Thanks &amp;
                      Regards,</font></p>
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                  <address style="line-height:100%"><font face="Times
                      New Roman, serif">Anantha Raghava</font></address>
                  <address style="line-height:100%"><font face="Times
                      New Roman, serif">eXzaTech Consulting And Services
                      Pvt. Ltd.</font></address>
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                      class="gmail-m_-623731468079987731moz-cite-prefix">On
                      Sunday 12 February 2017 06:04 PM, Arik Hadas
                      wrote:<br>
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                        <div>Hi Benjamin,</div>
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                        <div>Unfortunately not.</div>
                        <div>We intend to make more use of the OVA
                          format soon, we design this these days.</div>
                        <div>May I ask what is the motivation in your
                          case to export the VM as OVA?</div>
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                        <div>Regards,</div>
                        <div>Arik</div>
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                        <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at
                          11:41 AM, Benjamin Alfery <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a
                              moz-do-not-send="true"
                              href="mailto:benjamin.alfery@linforge.com"
                              target="_blank">benjamin.alfery@linforge.com</a>&gt;</span>
                          wrote:<br>
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                            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>
                            <br>
                            I'm using ovirt 4.0 and was wondering if it
                            is possible to export an<br>
                            existing VM to ova format (via the gui). If
                            it's not possible via GUI,<br>
                            is that possible at all?<br>
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                            Best Regards<br>
                            Benjamin<br>
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