IBM launches IaaA cloud on KVM

IBM launches KVM-based IaaS (beta) cloud for virtual lab hosting

IBM Extends Development and Test to the IBM Cloud

OVF format reaches version 1.1.0

OVF format reaches version 1.1.0

OVF 1.1 includes some clarification and new components like Capability for file system-based images to increase flexibility at deployment time

This is very interesting features used currently mainly in Linux based images.

Its very similar to Solaris Flash images (which uses CPIO archive) and which can be in deploy time extracted over may disk configurations.