<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Paul:<div><br></div><div>I assume you're using XenServer? When I grepped through the code, there appears to be a XenServer plugin for glance for supporting tar balls that could be OVAs, but don't necessarily contain the OVF file (?). </div><div><br></div><div>Here's the code: </div><div><a href="https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/stable/essex/plugins/xenserver/xenapi/etc/xapi.d/plugins/glance#L365">https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/stable/essex/plugins/xenserver/xenapi/etc/xapi.d/plugins/glance#L365</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Jul 5, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Paul Voccio wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div>We've been using OVA packages since the beginning. I believe there is a flag in glance for this. </div>
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<blockquote type="cite">Given that I have a qcow2 image from somewhere (e.g., downloaded<br>
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<div>Thanks, that clears things up. I was confused by this language, which sounded to me like the metadata was embedded in the disk image file:</div>
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<div>"The container format refers to whether the virtual machine image is in a file format that also contains metadata about the actual virtual machine."</div>
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<div>In addition, the docs have examples like this, which clearly aren't meaningful:</div>
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Just to add to the confusion the OVF can contain both the metadata file and the disk image file in a single archived file.
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"An OVF package consists of several files, placed in one directory. A one-file alternative is the OVA package, which is a TAR file with the OVF directory inside."<br>
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<div>Does anybody know if OpenStack (nova+glance) currently supports OVA packages? </div>
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