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I have downloaded and installed OVF Tool for Mac, and the documentation doesn't have any help for Mac users. I tried to run some simple commands but nothing I do seems to work. I just need to be able to run OVF Tool to convert a Fusion 7 VM into an .ovf format I can then import into vSphere 5.5. Anyone know of a guide that could walk me through the Terminal commands required to do this?
Under (Mac) OS X the ovftool is a command line utility that is used from a Terminal and it appears that you do not know or understand the most rudimentary basics of computing from the command line.
The fact that I can't navigate to that directory in the GUI. When I would google how to find the ovftool everything kept pointing me to a directory path I couldn't navigate to in the Mac os gui. I didn't know how to view the contents of the application file. After some googling I now know that you can right click a .app file and choose "view package contents" which will allow you to navigate through the folder.
You can download the OVF Tool for installation onWindows 64-bit or 32-bit, Linux 64-bit or 32-bit, Mac OS X 64-bit, and ARM 64-bit.The OVF Tool landing page provides a link to the software download group for each release.OVF Tool 4.4.3 supports the same operating systems as OVF Tool 4.4.
For this demo, I have downloaded and installed the VMware OVF tool for my windows based machine. Installation is quite simple as similar to all other windows installers. I am not going to explain each step of the OVF tool installation.
To export VM to OVA file using the VMware OVF tool, we have to call ovftool.exe along with the vCenter URL and credentials, and you will also need the path to your VM. To know the VM path, we can use the OVF Tool to discover the VM path.
Ovftool is a command line tool that allows the direct copy of virtual machines on ESXi hosts even if no shared storage is available. With the tool you can, in general, import and export OVF packages among VMware products and you just need to indicate the source and destination host, with related administrative credentials.
This is the first major release since the initial release of OVF Tool 1.0 and a minor upgrade to the OVF Tool 2.0 version that is bundled with Fusion 3.1 and Workstation 7.1. You can download the OVF Tool for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit, Linux 32-bit and 64-bit, and now Mac OS X.
René thank you for the directions, they worked great.For some that find it difficult to know the exact path when typing it out I use the following steps:Followed your steps up to 7, then step 8 did the followinga. In the Terminal window typed ./ovftoolb. located the *.vmx file, selected and dragged & dropped into Terminal * This puts the full pathc. Created a new folder for the converted filed. Selected the folder, dragged & dropped into the Terminal window * This puts the full pathe. Hit Enter
So with some trail and error and examining the script ovftool, I just ran ovftool out of the Applications directory where the package had place it and OK a .vmwarevm directory was created under the directory where the original .ovf, .vmdk, and .mf reside.
If you'd still like to participate, I can recommend following -to-manually-install-folding-home-on-vmware-photon-os.html which shows you how to build your own F@H Appliance. Since ESXi 6.x is no longer supported, there's not much more we can do.
hostname:~ username$ /Applications/VMware\ OVF\ Tool/ovftool /path/to/NetSUS_1.0.ova /path/to/NetSUS_1.0.vmxOpening OVA source: /path/to/NetSUS_1.0.ovaOpening VMX target: /path/to/NetSUS_1.0.vmxWriting VMX file: /path/to/NetSUS_1.0.vmxDisk Transfer Completed
I managed to convert the OVA file to VMDK. Im trying to install the Netsus appliance in amazon EC2. Im trying this using the command line tools and getting an error about the source compression. Any ideas?
The executable we need to run is ovftool.exe. We are aiming to convert .ova to .ovf so we need to also feed it the location of the source OVA file, and the destination path where we want the new OVF file to be created. My OVA file is called network.ova and I wish to output the OVF file to c:\temp\output. So to do the conversion, I can run the following:
The vSphere Integrated Containers Engine bundle includes the OVA-util utility. The OVA-util utility is a command-line utility that allows you to import and export OVF packages. This utility contains the ovftool command that you can use to deploy the vSphere Integrated Containers Appliance at the command line.
This section lists some of the basic ovftool options. You can set environment variables so that you do not have to specify the , , --datastore, --name, --net, and --prop options in every ovftool command.
Virtualization makes servers and applications completely portable, which in turn makes distributing virtual machines and their preinstalled applications simple. Taking advantage of this, VMware created the virtual appliance marketplace where thousands of VMs with applications (called virtual appliances) are available for download, most at no cost.
What is the OVFTOOL and where do you download it? You can create OVF packages to distribute to others and deploy OVF packages into your vSphere infrastructure without the OVFTOOL. However, the OVFTOOL is what will allow you to do these things at the command line.
You can download the OVFTOOL for both 32-bit Windows and 32-bit or 64-bit Linux at the VMware OVFTOOL Download page. Still, the single best place to access the download links, the OVFTOOL documentation and participate in a great forum dedicated to the OVFTOOL is the VMware's OVF Community.
In my case, I downloaded the OVFTOOL for Windows. It is a 12 MB file and installs quickly. Make sure that you take note of the directory that it is installed in because that is the directory that you will have to CD to in order to use OVFTOOL. Unlike other tools that you install, you won't find an icon or program group in the Windows Start Menu for OVFTOOL. To use it, you will have to open a Windows (or Linux) command prompt, CD into the installation folder, and run OVFTOOL.
Learning how to use OVFTOOL As it is a command-line interface (CLI) tool, there may be a bit of a learning curve. In my case, once I finished the command string that I used with OVFTOOL, I saved it to a notepad file so that it would be quick and easy to use OVFTOOL again. Fortunately, OVFTOOL comes with more than the average amount of help. Not only can you run OVFTOOL --help, but you can also run OVFTOOL --help examples, OVFTOOL --help locators, and OVFTOOL --help config.
In our case, I have opted to download the VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA). This is a free VMware virtual appliance, distributed in the OVF format. Just like the OVFTOOL, all you need to download it is a free VMware username and password.
About the "vCenter server and inventory path info," this is actually a locator. With OVFTOOL, a locator is a string that tells OVFTOOL exactly where in the vSphere infrastructure you want this appliance to be imported to. It is likely one of the more complex aspects of using the OVFTOOL, so make sure you read the special ovftool --help locatos help file.
In the first image, I used the string above to import the vMA OVF file that I downloaded to a vSphere server called "ESX3" managed by vCenter. I specified the data store, the name of the virtual machine once imported and that it should be powered on when the import is completed. I specified the username (administrator) in the locator. I could have specified the password but instead let the OVFTOOL prompt me for it.
In the case of standalone ESXi hosts, you could copy VMs between ESXi hosts by leveraging some of the tools, like VMware Converter, or you could even export the virtual machine to the jump host Windows system and then import the same into the destination host, but all this would take a while and you are dependent on a middle-man system for the VMware Converter installation or during import and export.
I've edited my /etc/paths file and for good measure did the PATH=/Applications/VMware\ OVF\ Tool:$PATH along with adding it to my bash profile. Yet when I run the command ovftool I get the command not found message. Am I missing something here, is there some other way to set a PATH that I'm not aware of? This same exact path for this same tool has worked before on my machine.
EDIT: Here is the print out from my path_helperPATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Applications/VMware\ OVF\ Tool/ovftool.app:/Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/VMware\ OVF\ Tool/:/Applictions/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/VMware\ OVF\ Tool:/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Public:/usr/local/go/bin:/Applications/VMware\ OVF\ Tool"; export PATH;
Well, that is interesting. I was expecting the installer to look for ovftool in the /Applications directory, but instead it is a private path. Next, I decided to check the directory reporting the error. I made it to:
The OVF Tool is installed on the same location as the CD key. We now need to look for the path where it is. On the other hand, the path for our OVF tool in our example would be C:/Program Files/VMware/VMware OVF Tool.
Download the ovftool. Open a Windows command prompt with administrator privileges (cmd.exe) You can access ovftool in the following directory: *C:/Program Files/VMware/VMware> OVF Tool.
The OVF Tool can be downloaded directly from the Windows site where your VM will be stored as an OVF. From the VMware page, choose the most recent and available version of the tool. Download the tool and create a My VMware account; there may still be issues.
The below steps are outdated, VMware has moved the OVF Tool to a different site. I'll update this page or create a new post about this in the future. For now, use the following link to download the OVF Tool. Installing and using the tool is still the same. 2b1af7f3a8