Independent Guest Virtual Machine (IGVM) File Format(github.com)

28 pointsby ingvevor 6 Monaten9 comments

Independent Guest Virtual Machine (IGVM) File Format

https://github.com/microsoft/igvm

9 comments

nine_kvor 6 Monaten

What I'm missing here is what software currently supports this format. Can I use it with QEMU? KVM? VirtualBox? VMware? If so, how? If not yet, when? If never, what's the actual use case?

moondevvor 6 Monaten

This looks like OVA, firmware can be bundled inside along with additional disks, networking config, machine type and so on.

So essentially a virtual appliance package

blibblevor 6 Monaten

I think people these days know better than to adopt Microslop standards

matjavor 6 Monaten

It would be nice to see a design document where the alternatives were considered and why this was invented to fill a gap. Otherwise, this just looks like reinventing the 20+ year old libvirt XML VM format.

knowitnone3vor 6 Monaten

I expect MS to inject CoPilot into your VM somehow

olyjohnvor 6 Monaten

There's an XKCD for this. https://xkcd.com/927/

Jesus Christ, Microsoft just can't quit doing this shit, can they?

m463vor 6 Monaten

this is either "embrace" or "extend", part of their business model

shaknavor 6 Monaten

cat CODEOWNERS

> * @microsoft/igvm-maintainers

... How is this "Independent"?

corranhvor 6 Monaten

Looks like it means ‘Independent’ of the hypervisor used, I don’t think it’s a reference to it being an independent project. The QEMU post on this is a better read, I couldn’t tell from the GitHub what this was supposed to be. https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/igvm.html