Cloned from launchpad blueprint https://blueprints.launchpad.net/glance/+spec/export-import-image-metadata-ovf.

Description:

OVF Container images contain a variety of pieces of embedded metadata that can be used to identify the operating system associated with the image.

Use-case: as a Cloud Provider, I would like to set specific properties to a Windows image which could represent a signature, and useful for licensing requirements.

To do that, I should be able to export / import an image with user properties included.

The idea here is to be able to identify an image after cloning or whatever with a property field. Of course, the user could break it in editing the image manually, but I consider he / she won't.
Then, a user could reuse the import image in the public cloud, and Glance will be aware about its properties.

Specification URL (additional information):

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