TurnKey works well with all the major virtualization platforms (e.g., VMWare, VirtualBox, Parallels, Xen, etc.). It provides appliances in a range of build types optimized and pre-tested for various popular virtualization platforms. If you don't already have virtualization software installed, is available in a free open source edition for most major OSs. VMWare Player and Server products are proprietary but free to download. KVM is 100% free software built into the Linux kernel which supports. Is a free, open source enterprise grade hypervisor which provides both KVM and LXC. Build type Headless Packaging Installation Kernel Extras Works best with.
No ISO Live CD/USB image Custom installer linux-generic Bare metal hardware (via CD or ) Any virtual machine (e.g., KVM, Hyper-V, XenServer) that can install from CD or ISO image. The reason why we don't have a Hyper-V build is mostly pragmatic. We're a bootstrapped company, with limited resources, so we have to pick our battles very carefully. None of us are Windows users and we don't have access to any Hyper-V hardware.
VMware OVF Tool is a command-line utility that allows you to import and export OVF packages to and from many VMware products. Resources Open Virtualization Format. The OVF Tool landing page provides a link to the software download group for each release. Resolved Issues Importing OVF of Scientific Linux from ESXi into Fusion/Player fails to boot.
That makes the prospect of Hyper-V build development expensive and clunky. We did have a developer looking into Azure builds at one point (perhaps a year or so ago), but the budget (and the free period) ran out before we had a reliable build process. So we had to shelve it. We do hope to revisit that at some point, but seeing as how far behind we are (Debian Stretch was released in June and we still don't even have a public v15.0 beta!), it's not likely to happen anytime soon. Most of the alternate builds were originally developed by the community, many are still be maintained by the community. So, it could be argued that there isn't a Hyper-V build because there hasn't been enough interest in TurnKey from Hyper-V developers! If you are interested in working on it, I'm more than happy to coach you!
It'd be awesome to have a Hyper-V build! Even if you don't have the skills, as you say, 'where there's a will, there's a way'! If you're keen enough, you can do it!
FWIW, I'm 'self taught' and developed the initial OpenVZ build (what's now the Proxmox/LXC build) back when I was a community volunteer. So it's totally doable. And like I said, I'll support you as much as I can. So let's get a Hyper-V build happening! Please start a new thread on the.
I'll respond ASAP with some suggested reading to get you started. Hope to see your post in the forums really soon!:).
I have a VMWare master image of Debian 9, in VMWare Fusion 10, having as a host MacOS High Sierra. One of those days, I had to import it to another virtualisation technology; today I had to import it to a VMWare ESX 5.x. I had to copy it over the network. As I had to do it over the network, as my image has lot of free space, and also because the hardware version of my vmdk is not supported by the old VMWare, I chose to convert my vmdk image to the OVF format. One of the advantages of an.OVA file, is that it will be far smaller than my vmdk. How to do it?