<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> Hi Everyone, <BR> <BR>I am relatively new to libvirt community; have worked on it from last half year mostly towards adding few missing APIs especially for ESX driver. One of the features I worked was installing a domain (VM) using OVAs. It is been a long time OVA became defacto standard for distributing and installing Virtual Machines, but surprisingly libvirt does not provide support for it. I wanted to perform a quick sanity int the community so that I am not stepping on anyone feet here. So far, I have working code, but to contribute upstream would require a bit of a cleanup work. <BR> <BR>One of the concern that I intend to get inputs on:<BR> <BR>OVA is a tar format archive, the first pre-requisite is to parse OVA and get following information:<BR>1. XML descriptor.<BR>2. VMDKs for transfer after domain is created on the hypervisor. (in ESX world that is done by getting a lease object and then transmitting the disk bits to hypervisor)<BR> <BR>I am wondering, where should I put the common code to parse OVA? My initial thought is to enhance conf/domain_conf.* file, given it already provides parsing routines for XML descriptor. Waiting for your feedback on this one. <BR> <BR>As I am familiar with ESX libvirt interaction, so the immediate plan is to enhance ESX driver, hopefully in near future will contribute the same feature to KVM/Xen etc.<BR> <BR>Thanks!<BR>Ata<BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> </div></body> </html>