Hey Abhi,
I am not sure where an ISO comes into play. I did not work with any ISOs
in my flow. Maybe the OVA is generated in a different way? Do you have
control over the way the OVA is created?
I was using the following command to export a VM from VMware using the
'ovftool', which would produc
Hi Will,
We have hit some road blocks. The main issue here is that cloudstack sees the
VM as a set of disks, while a OVA contains VM definition including instructions
on pre boot steps, delays and maybe more. So even if we are able to reliably
get disks from the OVA and orchestrate these with
The template generation related actions are better done on SSVM as they will be
dealing/moving with various data/boot disks. Vim(VMWare infrastructure
management), works with vCenter context and as such cannot be used inside SSVM.
Vim gives a much better validation of OVF as it can make compati
Cool. Let me know if you have questions.
My instinct is that we probably want to keep the Ova manipulation in the
context of vmware since I don't believe it will be used outside that
context. Trying to manipulate the ovf files with generic tools may prove to
be more complicated to manage going for
Hi Will,
I am improving the multiple disk OVA feature. As part of revamp I am moving
out some OVF manipulation code from the vmware hypervisor plugin context to
secondary storage component. The existing code was using vim25 and managed
objects to query and rewrite the OVF file. I have rewrit
Hey Abhinandan,
First, can you give us a bit more context regarding what you are doing so
we can highlight potential areas to watch out for? I have done some OVF
parsing/modification and there are a bunch of gotchas to be aware of. I
will try to outline some of the ones I found. I have not tried
Hello,
I am looking at vim25.jar to put together ovftool like functionality specially
around parsing and generating OVF files. vim25.jar is already included as
non-oss dependency and used by vmware hypervisor plugin. I see that some OVF
parsing capabilities are present in this jar, but it seem
