#6126: vagrant boxes should end in .box

[Fedora Release Engineering]

#6126: vagrant boxes should end in .box
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  Reporter:  walters          |      Owner:  rel-eng@…
      Type:  task             |     Status:  closed
 Milestone:  Fedora 21 Final  |  Component:  koji
Resolution:  invalid          |   Keywords:
Blocked By:                   |   Blocking:
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Comment (by mattdm):

 Replying to [comment:4 znmeb]:
 > How is "xxx.ova" dangerous to run out of the context of Vagrant? I
 haven't tried to open one of the Vagrant boxes in VirtualBox or VMWare
 Player, but wouldn't the virtualizer protect me?

 Particularly, it has well-known accounts and passwords as standard.
 Vagrant by default sets up host-only networking so this is not a big deal.

 > BTW, I'm not a huge fan of Vagrant - it seems heavily dependent on
 VirtualBox and its "configuration file" is Ruby code!

 Whether or not you are a fan, many people definitely are, and many of
 those people are the software developers we'd like to entice into using
 Fedora. Many of them aren't even (yet?...) using Linux on the desktop,
 instead using a Mac or Windows. Having Virtualbox images therefore helps
 us spread into a new segment.

 However, we also have libvirt (kvm-based) Vagrant as a feature for Fedora
 22 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Vagrant, so no one will be tied
 to Virtualbox.

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