[BlueOnyx:24956] Re: BlueOnyx VDMK and VDI images

[Fungal Style]

Hi Michael,

Is there any advantage over using say the VMDK over creating a new VM and using the ISO? I assume the difference is just in the deployment?

The reason I ask as I have had a couple of VMs in the past lose their boot partitions or somehow become corrupt so I now create a snapshot before ever restarting or shutting down a VM just in case.

Regards
Brian

On 29/5/21, 5:29 pm, "Blueonyx on behalf of Michael Stauber" <blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it on behalf of mstauber at blueonyx.it> wrote:

    Hi all,

    For an unrelated project I'm currently messing with QEMU KVMs and
    conversion of these KVMs into disk images for other virtualization
    platforms.

    I'm also using QEMU KVMs to quickly test freshly built BlueOnyx ISO
    images to see if they work. That made the next step kinda natural:

    From now on whenever a new BlueOnyx ISO is published I'll also publish
    disk images in VMDK format (for VMware) and VDIs (for VirtualBox).

    This gives users of these virtualization platforms (and others that
    allow imports of these formats) two options: Either install BlueOnyx off
    the ISO, or use one of the pre-installed disk images for their
    virtualization platform.

    A BlueOnyx 5210R (on AlmaLinux 8.4) VMDK and a VDI are now available and
    can be downloaded via the links at the bottom of the usual download page:

    https://www.blueonyx.it/downloads

    Or directly at this URL at the primary mirror(s):

    http://updates.blueonyx.it/pub/BlueOnyx/OVA/

    BlueOnyx 5209R VDMKs and VDIs will be published when I next update the
    5209R ISO image.

    Ideally publishing OVAs (Open Virtual Appliance format) would be more
    ideal, as they are more universally accepted and not only contain the
    virtual disk, but also the basic configuration of the VM (such as which
    virtual hardware should be simulated). However, there is no direct way
    to convert from QEMU to OVA and I can't easily do this without bloating
    up the publishing process in an unreasonable fashion.

    -- 
    With best regards

    Michael Stauber
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