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Re: Providing official virtualisation images of Debian



Jon Dowland wrote:
> The VM definition file is trickier.  qemu/kvm essentially don't have
one; you
> would supply command-line arguments to the tool.
virsh/libvirt/virt-manager et
> al sitting on top of KVM have an XML definition.  VMWare uses an XML
definition.
> I suspect VirtualBox does as well.
OVF is open, well-supported (including VirtualBox and VMWare), and imho
not a bad format.

I'd suggest we add support for OVF for the virtualization solutions that
don't support it instead of inventing a new format or writing obscure
metadata files for each virtualization solution(virtualizer?).

Philipp

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