ovf
OVF, or Open Virtualization Format, is an open standard for packaging and distributing virtual appliances and virtual machines. It was developed by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) to improve portability of VM images across different virtualization platforms and cloud environments. An OVF package describes the virtual system, its hardware requirements, network interfaces, and deployment parameters in a structured XML document known as the OVF descriptor, typically with a .ovf extension.
Alongside the descriptor, an OVF package may include one or more virtual disk images (such as VMDK
OVF is designed to be hypervisor-agnostic, with support implemented by many major platforms, including VMware vSphere,
Overall, OVF provides a portable, description-based packaging model intended to improve interoperability and reproducibility in virtual