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Bug 723008 - Support for import of OVF files
Support for import of OVF files
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-boxes
Classification: Applications
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GNOME Boxes maintainer(s)
GNOME Boxes maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks: 677691
 
 
Reported: 2014-01-26 10:35 UTC by drago01
Modified: 2018-01-11 10:07 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description drago01 2014-01-26 10:35:01 UTC 
I have noticed lately that virtualbox images are used often for "hand over a vm to people" which isn't tied to a plattform.

Given that the ova format is just a tar archive which includes an xml and vmware image it should be feasible to support it.
Comment 1 Zeeshan Ali 2014-01-26 13:40:51 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> I have noticed lately that virtualbox images are used often for "hand over a vm
> to people" which isn't tied to a plattform.
> 
> Given that the ova format is just a tar archive which includes an xml and
> vmware image it should be feasible to support it.

Yeah, its been on my todo for a while. Would be also nice if we can have gnome-continuous generate those files. So I want to do it the right way: A library that loads/saves from/to libvirt domains to/from OVF files. I didn't get to work on this for 3.12 but hopefully in 3.14, I do.
Comment 2 Zeeshan Ali 2014-10-17 00:44:34 UTC 
The hope lives on! :)
Comment 3 smol.robert 2016-04-27 21:47:54 UTC 
Hello, is this still planned? Microsoft distributes its testing platform via OVA files (like running IE10 for web development). It would be really cool to have support for this in gnome Boxes.
Comment 4 Zeeshan Ali 2016-04-28 13:40:42 UTC 
(In reply to smol.robert from comment #3)
> Hello, is this still planned? Microsoft distributes its testing platform via
> OVA files (like running IE10 for web development). It would be really cool
> to have support for this in gnome Boxes.

Hello, yes it's still planned. Kalev already has some code that does import OVF of the basic level and this is a Google summer of code project this year. Stay tuned. For future reference, I close the bugs if the plans change. :)
Comment 5 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-01-11 10:07:40 UTC 
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