[Libguestfs] libguestfs and exporting to OVA/OVF

[Emmanuel Kasper]

Am 22. Oktober 2016 00:03:30 MESZ, schrieb Emmanuel Kasper <emmanuel at libera.cc>:
>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.
>
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So I adapted on my spare time import-to-ovirt and I have now my  import2vbox.
I had to adapt the generated ovf and disable the rh(e)v specific stuff but nothing extraordinary complicated.
Code is here:

https://github.com/EmmanuelKasper/import2vbox

Thanks for the initial pointer to import-to-ovirt

Emmanuel


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