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.
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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
<rag...@exzatechconsulting.com <mailto:rag...@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
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Benjamin Alfery
<benjamin.alf...@linforge.com
<mailto:benjamin.alf...@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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