On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com> wrote:

Hi,

Arik Hadas <ahadas@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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