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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