Re: [ovirt-devel] [ovirt-users] Feature: enhanced OVA support
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Derek Atkins <derek(a)ihtfp.com> wrote:
Hi,
Arik Hadas <ahadas(a)redhat.com> writes:
> Hi everyone,
>
> We would like to share our plan for extending the currently provided
support
> for OVA files with:
> 1. Support for uploading OVA.
> 2. Support for exporting a VM/template as OVA.
> 3. Support for importing OVA that was generated by oVirt (today, we only
> support those that are VMware-compatible).
> 4. Support for downloading OVA.
>
> This can be found on the feature page.
>
> Your feedback and cooperation will be highly appreciated.
Sounds like a great plan.
What's the chance that the export would enable an OVA that could be
loaded back into VMware?
I'm afraid that would be too costly.
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).
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJedam7TJWo (the relevant part starts
at 14:40)
> Thanks,
> Arik
-derek
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