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Virtualization Guide

SUSE Studio helps you to build your appliance in a variety of formats.

Logical Volume Manager (LVM) applies to the Disk image, VMware, OVF and Preload ISO formats only!

Virtual formats

VMware / VirtualBox / KVM (.vmdk)

Use this format if you want to start your appliance as a virtual machine on VMware, VirtualBox, or KVM-based hypervisors. This is also an easy method to test an appliance without formatting any hard disk.

  • VirtualBox and VMware virtualization applications are available for most host operating systems.
  • KVM virtualization is for Linux only - See also: openSUSE - Virtualization with KVM

OVF virtual machine (.ovf)

Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is an open, standards-based format for virtual machines. A variety of hypervisors, including SUSE Cloud, VirtualBox, VMware ESX, IBM SmartCloud, and Oracle VM, support creating virtual machines by importing an .ovf file.

In order to use an OVF image, you may require the ovftool from VMware. Due to licensing issues we cannot distribute the tools with SUSE Studio at the moment. Download links, installation instructions, and documentation are available at http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/server/vsphere/automationtools/ovf.