v2v vmware converter
Hi Matt, I was taking a look on v2v to implement vSphere and I have few questions: 1) the converter should be in: Sys::VirtConvert::Converter::VMWare ( or Vsphere) ? 2) What you think if instead to mess up with the xml converter we gonna use a XSL file that take the OVF file and transform it in KVM like xml file ? Cheers, Francesco
[Add Matt to CC list and removing non-existent list] On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 04:57:38PM +0200, Francesco Vollero wrote:
Hi Matt,
I was taking a look on v2v to implement vSphere and I have few questions:
1) the converter should be in: Sys::VirtConvert::Converter::VMWare ( or Vsphere) ?
2) What you think if instead to mess up with the xml converter we gonna use a XSL file that take the OVF file and transform it in KVM like xml file ?
What Perl library would you use for the XSL transforms? Adding new dependencies can be problematic (I'm thinking from a RHEL point of view specifically, but also in general it adds a burden). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top
I answered this one separately. I don't recommend doing a full XSL transformation as we don't need all the data in the file. Cherry picking with XPath will be sufficient. This is what we do with the libvirt format. Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com> To: "Francesco Vollero" <fvollero@redhat.com> Cc: libguestfs@redhat.com, mbooth@redhat.com Sent: Thursday, 11 October, 2012 4:09:10 PM Subject: Re: [Libguestfs] v2v vmware converter [Add Matt to CC list and removing non-existent list] On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 04:57:38PM +0200, Francesco Vollero wrote:
Hi Matt,
I was taking a look on v2v to implement vSphere and I have few questions:
1) the converter should be in: Sys::VirtConvert::Converter::VMWare ( or Vsphere) ?
2) What you think if instead to mess up with the xml converter we gonna use a XSL file that take the OVF file and transform it in KVM like xml file ?
What Perl library would you use for the XSL transforms? Adding new dependencies can be problematic (I'm thinking from a RHEL point of view specifically, but also in general it adds a burden). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:25:02AM -0400, Matthew Booth wrote:
I answered this one separately. I don't recommend doing a full XSL transformation as we don't need all the data in the file. Cherry picking with XPath will be sufficient. This is what we do with the libvirt format.
Yes I agree, i give a look into the file you suggested and I'll take inspiration from there :) Cheers, Francesco
Matt
----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com> To: "Francesco Vollero" <fvollero@redhat.com> Cc: libguestfs@redhat.com, mbooth@redhat.com Sent: Thursday, 11 October, 2012 4:09:10 PM Subject: Re: [Libguestfs] v2v vmware converter
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On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 04:57:38PM +0200, Francesco Vollero wrote:
Hi Matt,
I was taking a look on v2v to implement vSphere and I have few questions:
1) the converter should be in: Sys::VirtConvert::Converter::VMWare ( or Vsphere) ?
2) What you think if instead to mess up with the xml converter we gonna use a XSL file that take the OVF file and transform it in KVM like xml file ?
What Perl library would you use for the XSL transforms? Adding new dependencies can be problematic (I'm thinking from a RHEL point of view specifically, but also in general it adds a burden).
Rich.
-- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top
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