I'm a huge fan of offline generation of these kinds of things across the board— one that I'm found surprisingly tricky is OVAs. You can create your rootfs in a

I'm a huge fan of offline generation of these kinds of things across the board— one that I'm found surprisingly tricky is OVAs. You can create your rootfs in a loopback, and use qemu-img to turn that into a vmdk, but there's not a lot of documentation or helpers/validators out there to assist with producing the XML ovf metadata, and if you get it wrong in any way, vmware just coughs up a generic error message. One thing that is quite helpful as an example to pick through is the 40MB yVM from here: https://cloudarchitectblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/11/yvm-download-page/ https://cloudarchitectblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/11/yvm-down... Anyone else got tips or resources for this?