cot

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COT (Common OVF Tool) is a Python library and command-line tool for editing and managing OVF/OVA files, commonly used with Cisco virtual platforms. Current version is 2.2.1, with a slow release cadence (approximately annual).

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from COT import VerboseLogger

from COT import logging

Basic example to load an OVA, edit hardware, and save.

from cot import COT ovf = COT('path/to/input.ova') ovf.edit_hardware(cpus=2, memory=4096) ovf.save('path/to/output.ova')

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gotchaPython version support: COT requires Python >=2.7, <4, but drops Python 3.3 as of v2.2.0. Ensure you are using Python 3.4+.

gotchaQEMU version compatibility: For creating streamOptimized VMDK files, QEMU >= 2.5.1 is required. Versions 2.1.0-2.5.0 produce incompatible VMDKs.

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githubhttps://github.com/glennmatthews/cot ↗

packagehttps://pypi.org/project/cot/ ↗