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Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is an open standard for packaging and distributing virtual appliances or more generally software to be run in virtual machines.

Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is an open standard for packaging and distributing virtual appliances or more generally software to be run in virtual machines.

The standard describes an "open, secure, portable, efficient and extensible format for the packaging and distribution of software to be run in virtual machines". The OVF standard is not tied to any particular hypervisor or processor architecture. The unit of packaging and distribution is a so called OVF Package which may contain one or more virtual systems each of which can be deployed to a virtual machine.

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Failed to deploy OVF package. ThrowableProxy.cause A general system error occurred: Transfer failed: Invalid response code: 500

Versions: ESXI: 7.0 Update 2 (build number 17867351) VMware Workstation: 16.1.2 build-17966106 I exported a VM from QKVM (Qnap KVM) and been trying to import it into one of our ESXIs using vCenter, but to no avail. It imports successfully to a…
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Using VMware ovftool to check existence of virtual machine (VM)?

What is the canonical way to use VMware's ovftool to query to see if a VM exists or not? If I run this command: ovftool vi://username@password@myvsphere/mydatacenter/vm/myvm I might get this response: Error: Got fault from server: The attempted…
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ESXi 6.0 exports empty OVF files?

I've exported a few old VMs the last few days to clean up our environments. I was trying to reimport one and received an error in the ESXi web client. Upon investigation, I noticed that the majority of the OVF files I exported show as 1kb but are…
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Is there a way to convert qcow2 images to ovf format?

I have one qcow2 image. But, I need image in ovf format. I know there is already one answer here Any way to convert qcow2 to ovf?, but I don't have vCenter installed with me. So, i am looking for any linux utility or some other way to convert?
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Import OVA once, deploy multiple

Is there a way using the ovftool to import an OVA image once and create multiple VMs from it?
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Get Access to root of Linux based virtual Appliance / Machine

I have installed an OVF on an ESXi standalone host, the virtual appliance is Linux base and i need to get access to the Linux Kernel of virtual appliance and do some change on it. it seems access to kernel have been locked because i cant boot the…
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Unable to Parse OVF

When trying to import an ovf to my ESXi5.1 box via Vmware convertor v4.0 i get the error : Unable to parse OVF When looking at the logs the only thing I see is [#10] [2013-12-12 08:10:40.494 'App' 2456 info] Could not find the session object cache,…
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Does anyone knows how to convert ovf file to img using centos?

I'm trying to instal nuxeo on centos and I'm using now xen to virtualize. Nuxeo's downloads have not xen image. Only available ovf and vmware. Is possible to make the conversion?
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AWS: error on import of OVF/OVA file from a VMWare ESXi

My goal is to migrate a VM from VMWare to AWS EC2. I exported the "OVF+VMDK" file from VMWare ESXI 6.5. I also converted to an OVA file to be able to test both OVF and OVA format. I followed the tutorial provided by AWS to import a virtual machine…
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ovftool import succeeds but VM is not able to be found

So I am importing a VM using the following command: ovftool.exe --name="test_VM2" --datastore="vsanDatastore" C:\Users\testuser\Desktop\VM_Exports\test_server.ova "administrator@vcenter.com/TEST/host/GPU Cluster" Opening OVA source:…
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VMWAre OVFtool export fails with error "Failed to create directory"

I am trying to export a VM using OVFtool running on a windows server ovftool.exe --allowExtraConfig --noImageFiles --noSSLVerify "vi://xx.xx.xx.xx/myVM" "c:\myPath" Enter login information for source vi://xx.xx.xx.xx/ Username: myid Password:…
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cloud-init userdata/metadata not loaded in ESXi

I'm using Terraform to provision virtual machines in an ESXi environment. I do this by having once manually imported the Ubuntu Focal Cloud Image as template and cloning virtual machines from it, with parameters supplied by a combination of vApp…
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I am trying to import a virtual appliance. It concludes with a failure. What might me wrong?

I uploaded an ova file to my bucket. I open the Cloud Shell online terminal. I set region and zone successfully. Then I run the following command to start the import. gcloud compute instances import adv-odi…
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Distribute Virtual machine supporting multi platform of visualization

I would like to create a virtual machine for distribution, My question is - how can I support all the major virtualization platforms? (VmWare, VirtualBox & HyperV) Is there an easy way to generate a virtual machine file (like ovf) for all of those…
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