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Independent Guest Virtual Machine (IGVM) File Format

• nine_k 9mo ago
  What I'm missing here is what software currently supports this format. Can I use it with QEMU? KVM? VirtualBox? VMware? If so, how? If not yet, when? If never, what's the actual use case?
  • moondev 9mo ago
    This looks like OVA, firmware can be bundled inside along with additional disks, networking config, machine type and so on. So essentially a virtual appliance package
  • blibble 9mo ago
    I think people these days know better than to adopt Microslop standards
• matja 9mo ago
  It would be nice to see a design document where the alternatives were considered and why this was invented to fill a gap. Otherwise, this just looks like reinventing the 20+ year old libvirt XML VM format.
• olyjohn 9mo ago
  There's an XKCD for this. https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/ Jesus Christ, Microsoft just can't quit doing this shit, can they?
  • m463 9mo ago
    this is either "embrace" or "extend", part of their business model
• shakna 9mo ago
  cat CODEOWNERS > * @microsoft/igvm-maintainers ... How is this "Independent"?
  • corranh 9mo ago
    Looks like it means ‘Independent’ of the hypervisor used, I don’t think it’s a reference to it being an independent project. The QEMU post on this is a better read, I couldn’t tell from the GitHub what this was supposed to be. https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/igvm.html https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/igvm.html
• knowitnone3 9mo ago
  I expect MS to inject CoPilot into your VM somehow