Abstract

This Uganda Standard describes an open, secure, efficient and extensible format for the packaging and distribution of software to be run in virtual systems. The OVF package enables the authoring of portable virtual systems and the transport of virtual systems between virtualization platforms. This version of the specification (2.1) is intended to allow OVF 1.x tools to work with OVF 2.x descriptors in the following sense: � Existing OVF 1.x tools should be able to parse OVF 2.x descriptors. � Existing OVF 1.x tools should be able to give warnings/errors if dependencies to 2.x features are required for correct operation. (This standard cancels and replaces the first edition, US ISO/IEC 17203:2011, Information technology-Open Virtualization Format (OVF) specification, which has been technically revised) This standard was published on 2021-03-02