From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add support for a configuration file Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 10:18:13 -0500 Message-ID: <482B02B5.20000@codemonkey.ws> References: <1210713545-11916-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <482A1F1C.2020902@codemonkey.ws> <20080513232021.GA8844@redhat.com> <482AFA1C.3030800@qumranet.com> <1210776776.24261.814.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paul Brook To: dor.laor@qumranet.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1210776776.24261.814.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Dor Laor wrote: > On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 17:41 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > > Please don't jump over me but I think it is worth mentioning OVF, at > least for to know what's you opinions. > > Open Virtualization Format - > http://www.vmware.com/appliances/learn/ovf.html > > It's xml based, supported by all major hypervisors, so qemu/kvm/xen > users might eventually use a product that support OVF. > xml is a non-starter for QEMU. We go out of our way to be portable. Having an XML dependency that could be satisfied on Windows and Linux would probably require more code to support the dependency than all of QEMU itself. Regards, Anthony Liguori ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/