Supported Machine Image Types
With UForge you can create machine images in the following formats.
Physical Format
Additional information
ISO
not supported for a Windows-based appliance
PXE
Only for CentOS systems
Virtual
Additional information
Hyper-V
not supported for Hyper-V on Windows 2016
KVM
none
OVF
Supported hardware types: 4 (ESXi >=3.x) 7 (ESXi >=4.x) 9 (ESXi >=5.x) 11 (ESXi>=6.x)
QCOW2
none
Raw
none
tar.gz
none
Vagrant Base Box
none
VHD
none
Virtual Box
none
VMware vCenter
Supported hardware types: 4 (ESXi >=3.x) 7 (ESXi >=4.x) 9 (ESXi >=5.x) 11 (ESXi>=6.x) For Windows, ensure your HW version is the most up to date for the ESXi host
VMware Server
Supported hardware types: 4 (ESXi >=3.x) 7 (ESXi >=4.x) 9 (ESXi >=5.x) 11 (ESXi>=6.x)
Vagrant
none
Xen
none
Citrix XenServer
none
Container
Additional information
Docker
not supported for a Windows-based appliance
LXC
not supported for a Windows-based appliance
Cloud
Additional information
Abiquo
Supported hardware types: 4 (ESXi >=3.x) 7 (ESXi >=4.x) 9 (ESXi >=5.x)
Amazon AWS
none
Microsoft Azure
Ubuntu <= 12.04 not supported
Cloudstack
Target formats: CloudStack VMWare (OVA) CloudStack Citrix Xen (VHD) CloudStack KVM (QCOW2)
Eucalyptus
Target formats: Eucalyptus KVM Eucalyptus Xen
Flexiant
Target formats: Flexiant RAW - KVM/Xen Flexiant OVA - VMWare Flexiant QCOW2 - KVM/Xen/VMWare
Fujitsu K5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux not supported
Google Compute Engine
none
Nimbula
Target formats: Nimbula ESX Nimbula KVM
OpenStack
Target formats: OpenStack QCOW2 OpenStack VMDK OpenStack VDI OpenStack VHD
Oracle Cloud
For OS versions supported by Oracle Cloud, refer to FAQ at Oracle Cloud
Debian 8 is not supported by UForge for publication to Oracle Cloud.
Supported subscriptions are Metered Service Offerings. Nonmetered Service Offerings are not supported by UForge.
Outscale
none
SUSE Cloud
none
VMware vCloud Director
Supported hardware types: 4 (ESXi >=3.x) 7 (ESXi >=4.x) 9 (ESXi >=5.x)