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Hi,
This is something we are working on for the Icehouse release. The first
step in that direction is
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/glance/+spec/vmware-datastore-storage-back
end which is currently under development. There is also a patch in review
for Nova that enables on to boot from a template:
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/34903/
Thanks
Gary

On 1/23/14 12:09 PM, "Rajshree Thorat" <rajshree.thorat at gslab.com> wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I'm deploying OpenStack Havana for provisioning VMs using EXSi as
>hypervisor.
>VMWare driver is able to swap instances from vmdk disks and everything
>works fine.
>
>Now what I want to do is to use OVA/OVF templates exported from ESXi in
>order to easily create my own custom
>images and be able to provision them in a reasonable amount of time.
>
>So what is the right way to upload OVA/OVF images using glance?
>
>The OVA file upload goes correctly on glance, but when I deploy the VM
>it comes up without OS(using
>vSphere console all I get is "Operating System not Found".)
>
>Does Havana supports ESXi OVA/OVF templates upload on glance? Or
>Icehouse will support this feature?
>
>Does anyone have any idea? Pointers in the right direction are welcome.
>
>Regards,
>Rajshree
>
>
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