On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, John Gardeniers wrote:
Could it be that you're over-thinking this? Why can't Ovirt simply export VMs to a standard format, preferably of course one already used elsewhere, such as ovf? That way it's a straight one-to-one.
Life is not so neat not a thought experiment here, but rather a summary of real life, in practice issues hit in working toward a generally applicable, FOSS based solution The testing grid, to make it interesting is to be able to gobble in and use [examples still in production for ome reason or another]: RHL 5.2 RHL 7.2 Windows 95 Windows NT 3.51 Windows 2000 Windows XP --- all above this line are legacy and out of support -- we know this, but our customers are indifferent to such, so long as it does not 'see' the internet at large -- RHEL / CentOS 5 (Xen hooks) RHEL / CentOS 6 (KVM hooks, with grub) RHEL / CentOS 6 (KVM hooks, with grub2) assorted Fedora assorted (but largely recent) Ubuntu Assorted Debian Testing and Stable OpenBSD -- various NetBSD -- various We have automation for parts, but not all of that grid -- Russ herrold