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Industry standard for portable virtual machines
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/30/dmtf_portable_virtual_machines/
The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) recently announced the acceptance of a draft specification submitted by leading virtualization companies that seeks to establish an industry-standard format for portable virtual machines.
The specification envisions that virtual machines packaged in this format will be capable of installation on any virtualization platform supporting the standard and as a result would simplify interoperability, security and virtual machine lifecycle management for virtual infrastructures. Companies collaborating on this specification include Dell, HP, IBM, Microsoft, VMware, and XenSource. By collaborating on the development of the OVF specification, the group aims to make it easier for IT organizations to pre-package and certify software packaged as VM templates for deployment in their virtualized infrastructure and to facilitate the secure distribution of pre-packaged virtual appliances by ISVs and virtual appliance vendors.
This is great news, hopefully by having a draft specification for portable virtual machines we can have more transparency and compatibility between the virtualization technology companies, let’s not forget that just because I can switch between the virtual platforms doesn’t necessarily mean I will. The more we open the technology, the more we enable customers to try it, to find which one works for them and see the technology as an enabler. Very cool.
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