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Malini,

fyi, Vui/Arnaud is leading the charge in the Nova VMware driver with
this review [1]. There is a spec in Nova also for multiple disks (for
a single vm) from Tesshu [2].

thanks,
dims

[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/82715/
[2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/128691/

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:06 AM, Bhandaru, Malini K
<malini.k.bhandaru at intel.com> wrote:
> Please join us on Friday in the Glance track – free format session, to
> discuss supporting OVF/OVA in OpenStack.
>
>
>
> Poll:
>
> 1)      How interested are you in this feature? 0 – 10
>
> 2)      Interested enough to help develop the feature?
>
>
>
>
>
> Artifacts are ready for use.
>
>
>
> We are considering defining an artifact for OVF/OVA.
>
> What should the scope of this work be? Who are our fellow travelers?
>
> Intel is interested in parsing OVF meta data associated with images – to
> ensure that a VM image lands on the most appropriate hardware in the cloud
> instance, to ensure optimal performance.
>
> The goal is to remove the need to manually specify image meta data, allow
> the appliance provider to specify HW requirements, and in so doing reduce
> human error.
>
> Are any partners interested in writing an OVF/OVA artifact => stack
> deployment? Along the lines of heat?
>
> As a first pass, Intel we could at least
>
> 1)      Defining artifact for OVA, parsing the OVF in it, pulling out the
> images therein and storing them in the glance image database and attaching
> meta data to the same.
>
> 2)      Do not want to imply that OpenStack supports OVA/OVF -- need to be
> clear on this.
>
> 3)      An OpenStack user could create a heat template using the images
> registered in step -1
>
> 4)      OVA to Heat – there may be a loss in translation! Should we attempt
> this?
>
> 5)      What should we do with multiple volume artifacts?
>
> 6)      Are volumes read-only? Or on cloning, make copies of them?
>
>
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