COT.ovf package reference

Package for handling OVF and OVA virtual machine description files.

The COT.ovf.OVF class provides an implementation of the COT.vm_description.VMDescription interface. In general, COT submodules should be agnostic of the internals of this package and should only use the VMDescription interface.

API

OVF Representation of the contents of an OVF or OVA.

Exceptions

OVFHardwareDataError The input data used to construct an OVFHardware is not sane.
OVFItemDataError Data to be added to an OVFItem conflicts with existing data.

Modules

COT.ovf.ovf Module for handling OVF and OVA virtual machine description files.
COT.ovf.hardware Representation of OVF hardware definitions.
COT.ovf.item Module for working with individual hardware elements in an OVF.
COT.ovf.name_helper Module for handling the differences in XML between OVF spec versions.