Since I do a ton of setups for VPS's and dedicateds, etc..

A lot of times I take a LOCAL VM and test out setups, installs, etc...

With my notes I then setup the VPS/Dedicated from the notes manually.

It sure would be a lot less time consuming to take the finalized VM rinse it
through some sort of export process to OVA???? Or something and then IMPORT
that into OpenVZ VPS for example. Thats an example I am not aware that OVZ
will import an OVA... That is just an example for illustration purposes.

Yes, snapshots/restores can help, but I have one DC which doesn't support
snapshots/restores natively (its their one weakness at this location, and
there is some DC issue which they won't get in to too much detail on why), if
I wanted to setup something fine.... but that sort of cyclically leads me back
to here. In that I would test out a setup like that, then have to manually
create this on the remote server. Possibly a dedi or colo to do it..

Yes, colo would be another option ie: setup server locally, ship, install....
That is many times more $$$$ v. VPS or even some dedi's. The shipping and
install alone would cover VPS(s) for quite some time.

Moving VM's from the various VM solutions can be done ie: VMware <->VBOX, but
I've not seen anything like that for something like:

VBOX -> OpenVZ
Vmware -> OpenVZ

Any one run across anything like this that searches are not showing.

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