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Hi Gary,

Thank you for your prompt reply.
It is really helpful for me.

Regards,
Rajshree

On 1/23/2014 4:59 PM, Gary Kotton wrote:
> 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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Regards,
Rajshree