On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Ata Bohra <ata.husain@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is a proposal to enhance Libvirt library to handle OVA package > installation. > > OVA: > OVA is one of the widely accepted and consortium defined/maintained format > for > Virtual Machine distros. Technically it is a tar file with three main > components: > 1. VMX descriptor (XML file defining virtual machine specifics such as: > virtual hardware etc. > 2. VMDKs in a compressed format. > 3. Manifest file. > I thought this was discussed previously on the list before and the idea was to provide something similar to virt-v2v to convert from OVA into libvirt. Since effectively OVA machines are not really tied to any one virtualization solution but could be qemu or VMWare (or maybe VBox) VMs. It just the disk image and some high level definitions about the hardware. Or are you intending on this just being another storage driver for the VMWare driver? -- Doug Goldstein -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list