[ovirt-users] Exporting VM as ova

[Shahar Havivi]

They must have written it - as we did,
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).
We currently convert from VMWare and Xen on Rhel (not Citrix).
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.

 Shahar.

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 3:46 AM, Anantha Raghava <
raghav at exzatechconsulting.com> wrote:

> Hello Arik,
>
> Interesting..
>
> 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.
>
> Do you mean to say that both Xen and VMWare have written specific parsers
> to convert the disk formats amongst each other.
>
> Xen, I am talking about Citrix Xen.
>
> --
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
>
> Anantha Raghava eXzaTech Consulting And Services Pvt. Ltd.
>
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> On Sunday 12 February 2017 06:27 PM, Arik Hadas wrote:
>
>
>
> 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 :)
>
>
>> --
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>>
>>
>> Anantha Raghava eXzaTech Consulting And Services Pvt. Ltd.
>>
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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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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