On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 08:35 -0500, Chris Wopat wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Ed Humes <ehu...@capanes.com> wrote:
> > That and the fact that ESXi is free makes a vmdk solution the clear
> > choice to me.
> 
> OVF is probably the right answer.
> 
> * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Virtualization_Format
> 
> Supported by various VMWare versions as well as other environments
> such as VirtualBox which hsa been becoming quite popular.

If you start with a recent modern server OS like CentOS 5.5 for the
guest and configure jffnms atop of it under some VM, the resulting disk
image is still just a disk image.  

There are plenty of tools out there for doing conversions and it would
work on many VM platforms.

-Eric


> 
> --Chris
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