[occi-wg] Supporting standard formats

[Sam Johnston]

Afternoon all,

I've been looking at the various formats available for our representations
and have added the following ones to OCCI
Infrastructure<http://occi.googlecode.com/hg/docs/occi-infrastructure.html>.
Now before you savage me for not including your favourite format or
including one you don't like, bear in mind that this is just to give people
*suggestions* as to formats which may be suitable, not *recommendations* as
to which ones we prefer - that's for the market to decide. The exact wording
is "The following representation formats are identified (but not necessarily
recommended) as possible candidates for this kind".

Sam

*Table 4. Compute Representations*
NameTypeSpecificationCitrix Xen Virtual Appliance (XVA) [deprecated]
application/octet-streamVHD<http://occi.googlecode.com/hg/docs/occi-infrastructure.html#infrastructure-xva>Open
Virtualisation Appliance
(OVA)application/ova+xmlOVF<http://occi.googlecode.com/hg/docs/occi-infrastructure.html#infrastructure-ovf>Open
Virtualisation Format
(OVF)application/ovf+xmlOVF<http://occi.googlecode.com/hg/docs/occi-infrastructure.html#infrastructure-ovf>

*Table 6. Network Representations*
NameTypeSpecificationN/AN/AN/A

*Table 8. Storage Representations*
NameTypeSpecificationISO image
formatapplication/x-iso9660-imageISO<http://occi.googlecode.com/hg/docs/occi-infrastructure.html#infrastructure-iso>Microsoft
Virtual Hard Diskapplication/octet-streamVHD<http://occi.googlecode.com/hg/docs/occi-infrastructure.html#infrastructure-vhd>QEMU
qcow2 image formatapplication/x-qemu-qcow2QCOW2<http://occi.googlecode.com/hg/docs/occi-infrastructure.html#infrastructure-qcow2>Raw
disk format (IMA, IMG, RAW,
etc.)application/octet-streamRAW<http://occi.googlecode.com/hg/docs/occi-infrastructure.html#infrastructure-raw>Virtualbox
Virtual Disk Image
[undocumented]application/octet-streamVDI<http://occi.googlecode.com/hg/docs/occi-infrastructure.html#infrastructure-vdi>VMware
Virtual Disk Formatapplication/octet-streamVMDK<http://occi.googlecode.com/hg/docs/occi-infrastructure.html#infrastructure-vmdk>
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