[Libguestfs] v2v vmware converter

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Thu Oct 11 15:09:10 UTC 2012


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On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 04:57:38PM +0200, Francesco Vollero wrote:
> Hi Matt,
> 
> I was taking a look on v2v to implement vSphere and I have few questions:
> 
> 1) the converter should be in: Sys::VirtConvert::Converter::VMWare ( or Vsphere) ?
> 
> 2) What you think if instead to mess up with the xml converter we gonna use
>    a XSL file that take the OVF file and transform it in KVM like xml file ? 

What Perl library would you use for the XSL transforms?  Adding new
dependencies can be problematic (I'm thinking from a RHEL point of
view specifically, but also in general it adds a burden).

Rich.

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