[libvirt] RFC: Enable Libvirt to handle OVA installation

[Ata Bohra]

> >    install()   (Please suggest if there can be more routines to this driver, it can be enhanced later as well).
> >   It is possible to design this driver to handle OVA parsing as well, but I think keeping it in
> >   'util' may make that code available for all hypervisors given OVA format does not change per 
> >   hypervisor.   I'm inclined more towards 2.2 design as it is more generic and provides room for furture extensions.  Looking forward for comments/suggestions.  Thanks!Ata 		 	   		  
> 
> I really don't want to see OVA support integrated into libvirt APIs.
> libvirt aims to only provide the mechanism for virt management. OVA,
> however, is a policy based approach to virt management. As such it
> should be done by a layer above libvirt, which simply makes use of
> the libvirt mechanism to accomplish its work. If there are specific
> things that libvirt is missing, which prevent this layering, then
> feel free to propose enhancements to the libvirt APIs to enable it.
[AB]:  Unfortunately I could not find any way to perform this rather than accomodating it inside libvirt. As mentioned more of the issue is: OVA installation is handled by hypervisor in more than one step, they do not expose specific APIs to load compressed disk associated with one VM, please correct me if my understanding is wrong here. It means then this feature could be blessed within libvirt framework at all :(. For educational purpose, I want to ask why is "OVA installtion" is considered so alien. To me it is one of the ways to manage VM distribution in an hypervisor agnostic way.   
Thanks!Atahttp://abohra-libvirt.blogspot.com/
 		 	   		  
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