PS> Those are different kind of virtualization technologies. Being VBOX and
 PS> VMware
 PS> more similar but OpenVZ is not a VM, it's a chroot on steroids.
 PS> I don't think it's possible to migrate a VM from VBOX/VMWare to OenVZ.


Thanks, I am aware of that... but tools often appear to deal with this.. just
as there are P2V and V2P systems, and V2V in that VMware and VBox can import
some of each others stuff, even if it needs to wash through some thing else
ie: OVA.

 PS> If you are just looking to automate the building of a VM, take a look at
 PS> Ansible.


No, not really.. ... completely..


There is a lot of issues with this suggestion

1) COST! If it ain't free, I don't care about it.
1a) YEARLY COST
1b) even at $5K/YR thats a LOT HARDWARE I can purchase.


2) Overkill

3) RH... Sorry, but RH and I don't get along... suffice it to say they don't
want desktop customers, they don't want us/me, so be it! Plus RPM's just leave
me even more disgusted than compiling. Just RH and anything related or tainted
by them just well irritates me.


I would much rather build stuff locally and then scp/rysnc it over or
something.. versus snapshots/restores.  And in one case one DC can't do that,
its an issue we brought up which means that in some cases multi providers are
needed.. we prefer not to do that (yes it may/might/is good practice to have
multiple vendors... finding MULTIPLE GOOD vendors as one of our main ones.. is
tough to impossible... and we ain't touching EC2 crap!).

I guess we might find some $$$ in the hardware budget and setup something that
is based on OVZ and then setup our own local system and then find out if these
steps for moving actually work.

Alot more of this has to with not putting my team to develop something that
exists already.. but it seems a 100% automated process for this as turnkey
package doesn't exist.

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