Re: [Libguestfs] libguestfs and exporting to OVA/OVF

Le 21/10/2016 à 16:08, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : > On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 10:43:26PM +0200, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: >> Hi >> I've been looking for a standalone tool to create OVA/OVF VM files based >> on a disk image and found none. So I was thinking to write my own. >> Would you be interested in having such a tool in the libguestfs umbrella ? > > There is this: > > http://git.annexia.org/?p=import-to-ovirt.git > > which can generate OVF, and with not very much extra work could > generate OVAs. > > The problem is that OVF is not a reliable standard. Sure, there is a > standards organization behind it, but there is in practice no interop. > You have to know the target hypervisor in order to be able to create > OVF which will work, and the OVF is quite different for each target. Thanks for the hint for import-to-ovirt, the code is easy to read and follow, and is close to what I want to achieve. A good part of the script is ovirt specific but I am going to reuse the part where you generate the OVF file. I'll send you a link when I have something to show. _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list Libguestfs(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs