On away to a virtualisatiestandaard
Three large names from the virtualisatiewereld throw self behind a new and open standard for images of virtual machines. Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF) replaces the existing sizes of Microsoft, VMware and Xensource not, but stops they in a XML-packing that universally to read falls.
The information in the OVF-packing makes the possible round a virtual machine that to open became for instance in VMware Workstation gecreerd with Xen or Microsoft Virtual PC. The large advantage of the size is thus that administrators of virtualisatieoplossingen not longer bound are at a particular virtualisatieplatform.
There are border however on the cooperation between the three. about an open standard for virtual machines, they want to talk yet, but there is no talk of further standaardisering around virtualisatietechnieken.
OVF, that also backs support gets of Dell, HP and IBM, is on away a broad standard to become. An important step is the acceptance yesterday through the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) of the OVF-proefspecficatie.