Re: Creating Virtual machine with .OVF format

On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 05:51:54PM -0400, Ajay Kumar wrote: Big caveat: OVF/OVA only really ensures a portable packaging / description format, and does /not/ actually provide hypervisor execution portability. ie any hypervisor can have tools to consume an OVF/OVA, but that doesn't mean the disk image inside can actually be run on any hypervisor. Each hypervisor has its own set of virtual hardware that it emulates, and there is little overlap between the different options (VMware, Hyperv, KVM). eg if a disk image is built to use virtio-blk for its storage, then you can run that on KVM, but not on VMware/HyperV. Likewise if you pick the HyperV paravirtualized storage driver, then you're unlikely to have to easily run on VMware/KVM. If you work hard you might be able to create disk images that really are portable across hypervisors by ensuring the OS can automagically detect the drivers based on hardware it sees, but this is really unrelated to any use of OVF/OVA. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|