[ovirt-users] Exporting VM as ova

[Yaniv Kaul]

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.
>

It's not just disk format - imagine the network interface driver - the PV
Xen NIC driver vs. vmxnet3 (or however it's called) in VMware. Most of the
HW devices are different as well.
Y.


> Xen, I am talking about Citrix Xen.
>
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> 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 :)
>
>
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>>
>> 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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