Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/8] block: Live backup prototype

[Dietmar Maurer]

> OVF isn't an image format. I would really like to produce OVA archives, with a
> OVF description passed by the management tool and images in one of our native
> formats. If this isn't streamable though (as I expect), tbat would be more for
> storing an archive of qcow2s instead of VMAs.

OVF does not even specify the disk image format. They simply use tar to archive
disk images with unspecified format.