[pve-devel] Question: open virtual appliance

[Alexandre DERUMIER]

Hi,

as a first step, I have send patch to import external disk image.

now for ova import,
I think we need a method to extract files from ova (it's a simple tar file),

then an xml parser to parse OVF descriptor 

Does somebody known where are the specifications of config format ? does it have revisions ?



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De: "Andreas Steinel" <a.steinel at gmail.com>
À: "pve-devel" <pve-devel at pve.proxmox.com>
Envoyé: Mercredi 18 Janvier 2017 18:54:39
Objet: Re: [pve-devel] Question: open virtual appliance

Only some experience: 

I was not able easily interchange simple OVA generated from VMware with OVA 
generated from VirtualBox without manual intervention. If you build 
something that works, that should be fine. I also tried to import OVA 
exported from VMware into Xen and it also did not work, not even with their 
support. Always some strange error. Whereas I never had problems importing 
into Proxmox VE. 

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 12:25 PM, Emmanuel Kasper <e.kasper at proxmox.com> 
wrote: 

> On 01/16/2017 10:14 PM, Gustaf Ankarloo wrote: 
> > Are there any plans of making a import function for OVA/OVF ? 
> > I know it's doable with a lot of manual tinkering 
> 
> I have this somewhere in my todo list although it is not high priority 
> at the momment. 
> 
> I would like to try to following approach: 
> * extract the OVA archive (itsel a tar) to get the OVF xml manifest and 
> the disk image 
> * from the OVF xml file generate a minimal vm.conf 
> * create a vma archive with the disk image and associated vm.conf using 
> the vma command 
> * now you have a valid vzdump ready to be extracted to the storage of 
> your choice with the tools you know already 
> 
> stuff to be left out for first approach: 
> 
> * ova with multiple disk images (don't know if the vma command line 
> utils support that) 
> 
> * extraneous paramaters of OVF file. The OVF spec is 40 pages long and 
> allows vendor specific options via private xml namespaces. So we're not 
> going to cover all of it. 
> 
> Any comments on this approach ? 
> 
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