VMWare Open Virtualization Format Tool

30 November 2010 sebastian Virtualization, 1   Switch language:

Command line utility that supports import and export of OVF packages.

Download

Download VMWare Open Virtualization Format Tool here:

http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vsphere/automationtools/ovf

You can download this tool for Windows (64-Bit or 32-Bit), Linux (64-Bit or 32-Bit) and Mac OSX.

Install

chmod +x VMware-ovftool-2.0.1-260188-lin.x86_64.sh
./VMware-ovftool-2.0.1-260188-lin.x86_64.sh

Convert OVF to VMX

/opt/vmware/ovftool/ovftool /path/to/vm.ovf /path/to/vm.vmx

Convert VMX to OVF

/opt/vmware/ovftool/ovftool /path/to/vm.vmx /path/to/vm.ovf

More inforamtions and examples

See more examples in the documentation:

OVF Tool Userguide

converter, ovf, vmware, vmx

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