Since I do a ton of setups for VPS's and dedicateds, etc..   
      
   A lot of times I take a LOCAL VM and test out setups, installs, etc...   
      
   With my notes I then setup the VPS/Dedicated from the notes manually.   
      
   It sure would be a lot less time consuming to take the finalized VM rinse it   
   through some sort of export process to OVA???? Or something and then IMPORT   
   that into OpenVZ VPS for example. Thats an example I am not aware that OVZ   
   will import an OVA... That is just an example for illustration purposes.   
      
   Yes, snapshots/restores can help, but I have one DC which doesn't support   
   snapshots/restores natively (its their one weakness at this location, and   
   there is some DC issue which they won't get in to too much detail on why), if   
   I wanted to setup something fine.... but that sort of cyclically leads me back   
   to here. In that I would test out a setup like that, then have to manually   
   create this on the remote server. Possibly a dedi or colo to do it..   
      
   Yes, colo would be another option ie: setup server locally, ship, install....   
   That is many times more $$$$ v. VPS or even some dedi's. The shipping and   
   install alone would cover VPS(s) for quite some time.   
      
   Moving VM's from the various VM solutions can be done ie: VMware <->VBOX, but   
   I've not seen anything like that for something like:   
      
   VBOX -> OpenVZ   
   Vmware -> OpenVZ   
      
   Any one run across anything like this that searches are not showing.   
      
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