[occi-wg] Supporting standard formats

[Alexis Richardson]

Thanks Sam, this is good stuff.
alexis


On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Sam Johnston <samj at samj.net> wrote:

> 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*
> NameTypeSpecification ISO 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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