Support remote OVAs for govc import.spec / import.ova

[cloudmaniac]

Currently, only local OVAs are supported by govc import.spec and govc import.ova.
It would be fantastic if govc could support the import from a remote location (such as from a S3 bucket).

Example: govc import.ova https://<fantastic-bucket>.s3-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/template.ova

[tsugliani]

this would be very useful indeed !

[dougm]

Which version of govc are you using? import.ova has supported remote URL for quite a while, since 1c1291c

We did just add support for remote import.spec in #1885

[tsugliani]

Hi @dougm.

I've tested on govc 0.22.1 (latest available release)

Yes indeed import.ova works with remote URL, but not import.spec (so right now I have a intermediate step to download/fetch spec and then reuse import.ova with the remote URL for various remote target deployments).

Hopefully a 0.22.2 release will fix that ;-)

Thanks for great work around this !

[dougm]

ok, thanks @tsugliani . I'll close this then as the master branch has remote import.spec support and plan to release 0.23 soon-ish.

[reubenur-rahman]

@dougm Not available even in 0.24 ! Any chance in 0.25 ?

[dougm]

@reubenur-rahman remote import.spec support is there since 0.23. If you're having an issue with that or import.ova, please provide more details.