On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 08:10:32PM +0200, Max Reitz wrote: > As someone who is just naive and doesn't see the big picture, I don't > see what's wrong with using a tar file that contains the image and > additional data.
FWIW an OVA file is exactly this: an uncompressed tar file containing disk image(s) and metadata. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/