[Qemu-devel] Re: libvirt vs. in-qemu management

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 04/06/2010 03:43 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> Does VMware Player support OVF?
> Does VMware Workstation support OVF?
> Does VMware Server support OVF?
> Do older VMware ESX versions support OVF?
> Does it make sense to build an OVF with a Xen PV image?
>
> We need to deliver vendor specific configs anyways. Of course we could
> ship a VMware type, a Xen type and an OVF type. But that would certainly
> not help KVM's awareness because it's hidden underneath the OVF type.
>    

Adding yet another format into the mix isn't helping people who create 
appliances.

> It's also hard to tell people what to use. People know KVM. But people
> don't know what UI KVM does have. Because there is none. I think we're
> losing quite a bit of traction due to that.
>    

Of course there is a UI,  RHEV-M, proxmox, virt-manager, others.  
virt-manager is special in that it also manages other hypervisors.

Note the esx UI is not called esx, it's called vCenter or something.

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