[ovirt-users] Exporting VM as ova

[Arik Hadas]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Anantha Raghava <
raghav at exzatechconsulting.com> wrote:

> Hello Arik,
>
> Converting to an appliance (OVA) makes the VM portable. Works on multiple
> hypervisor. VM migration and interoperability becomes uncomplicated.
>

Thanks Anantha.
That's true only to some extent.
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.
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.
And there may be more use cases for exporting the VM as OVA, that's why I'm
interested to know what's the goal in this case :)


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> On Sunday 12 February 2017 06:04 PM, Arik Hadas wrote:
>
> Hi Benjamin,
>
> Unfortunately not.
> We intend to make more use of the OVA format soon, we design this these
> days.
> May I ask what is the motivation in your case to export the VM as OVA?
>
> Regards,
> Arik
>
>
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> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Benjamin Alfery <
> benjamin.alfery at linforge.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using ovirt 4.0 and was wondering if it is possible to export an
>> existing VM to ova format (via the gui). If it's not possible via GUI,
>> is that possible at all?
>>
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Benjamin
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