Add ability to configure via OVF about vagrant-vsphere

[rylarson]

Looking at the rbvmomi code, this will probably require an rbvmomi change as well. It appears rbvmomi expects a url for curl to download and then pipes that into a curl upload. For this to be useful for a box file, rbvmomi need to accept a uri to a local package (the OVF contained in the box file).

[GregDomjan]

+1

[RoadRunnr]

+1

It appears as if rbvmomi is able to handle file:// URL's for local files just fine (tested with curl 7.37.1). rbvmomi also seems to support this (see OvfManager.rb Line 105 ).

So, actually deploying OVF and OVA images should be doable.

[rylarson]

Revisiting this because I have been messing around a lot with ovftool. What do you think about changing the vsphere provider box file format to optionally package an OVA or OVF.

If an OVA/OVF was present in the box file, the plugin could deploy the OVA/OVF to the vcenter server as the named VM as configured in the Vagrantfile.

Thoughts?

[mkuzmin]

Also look at vagrant-vcenter plugin.

[kubrat]

+1