<div dir="ltr">They must have written it - as we did,<div>OVA is representation of current hypervisor virtual machine, it contains OVF which is xml representation of the VM and binary disk files, the files are the format of the specific hypervisor (Xen, VMWare or KVM).</div><div>We currently convert from VMWare and Xen on Rhel (not Citrix).</div><div>The main issue is to convert the disk from one hypervisor to another, we use qemu-img to convert to qcow2 or raw disk format.</div><div><br></div><div> Shahar.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 3:46 AM, Anantha Raghava <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raghav@exzatechconsulting.com" target="_blank">raghav@exzatechconsulting.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<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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<div class="m_8544424732886668067moz-cite-prefix">On Sunday 12 February 2017 06:27 PM,
Arik Hadas wrote:<br>
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Anantha Raghava <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raghav@exzatechconsulting.com" target="_blank">raghav@exzatechconsulting.com</a><wbr>></span>
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<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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<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"><<a href="mailto:benjamin.alfery@linforge.com" target="_blank">benjamin.alfery@linforge.com</a>></span>
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<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>
<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>
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