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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.

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Virtualization_Format

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Getting error while converting VMX to OVF format

I am trying to convert .vmx to OVF format using OVFtool. I am following the below steps: Copying .vmx and .vmdk file using "scp" command from ESX server to one linux box. On linux box, executed command [# ovftool myVM.vmx myOVF.ovf] from the…
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How to deploy vm image using ovftool on vmware workstation?

I am working on a python script to deploy .ova file directly to vmware workstation. I have following question. Is it possible? If yes, is there any python module or ovf tool can be used for that ? just need pointers.
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How to parse a OVF file to retrieve information within it?

I have Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization(RHEV) Virtual Machine definition in ovf format. I would like to know xsd corresponding to the OVF format. So that I can retrieve the pieces of information from it. What is the right way to retrieve this…
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Converting .ovf file to .vtk file or vts file

How can I convert a .ovf file to .vtk file or vts file to view an image in paraview? I tried with these commands but these didn't work .\mumax3-convert.exe -vtk="ascii" D:\Mumax3\Data\filename.out\m*.ovf .\mumax3-convert.exe -vtk=binary…
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Can't import .ova to VirtualBox and can't uncompress with `tar`

Having a problem with a ova file that is supposed to contain a VM image. Importing into VirtualBox gives the error: OVA 'path/to/filename.ova' does not contain an .ovf-file. Result Code: VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80BB0004) Component:…
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how do we specify base os version in ova live build

Everyone I am learning how to live-build ova and want to know where do we specify base os version, like ubuntu 16.04. I tried grep build don't find version... I have below code repo. Does anyone know some good tutorial for my case. Thanks. If…
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Centos OVA file with network configuration during import

I need to make an ova file with a clean Centos Stream 8 system that will ask the user for an IP address during import and then set this address inside the VM. From the information I've found so far, I've managed to edit the ovf file and add this…
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Uploading an OVA using pyVmomi appears to require a connection directly to a compute host

I'm hitting an issue with a script that is built on pyVmomi trying to upload an OVA to vSphere. This script is run on a VM that has network connectivity to the vCenter, but not to the compute host. The script is very similar to the community…
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Create bootable OVF image using root filesystem folder from the Linux command line

I'd like to ask if there is a way to create OVF images using the Linux command line from a specific folder. This folder would contain a Linux root file system. The generated OVF files would later be imported into VSPhere and they need to be able to…
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ovf deployment on VMWare environment with guestinfo property

I am trying to deploy a VM using OVF configuration and my goal is to pass the key-value provided by the user in the OVF environment to the VM using VMware guestinfo. Following are the settings/attributes I have added to my OVF file
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packer: Error when building from source ova

I am trying to build an .ova file using another .ova as source: My configuration is as follows: "builders": [ { "type": "vmware-vmx", "source_path": "builds/my-base.ova", "vmx_data": { "memsize": "8192", …
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Make an ovf property mandatory to specify during ovf deployment

I'm looking to make setting a root password mandatory while deploying an ova to create a vm. I set the property in the ovf but I can't seem to make it mandatory. VSphere client shows the property while deploying, but the user can skip setting a…
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Unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'Popen' and 'str'' in subprocess.Popen

I'm looking at this script to disable shell=True while creating an ova. It works when shell=True but gives me a TypeError when shell=False. I'm pretty sure the issue is with this part of the command - " vi:\//" + username + ":" + encodedPassword +…
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Detect changes made in virtual machine ovf

How I Can Detect Ovf File Moved Or Copied? I built a software engine that is inside a virtual machine and I want to prevent it from copying or transferring it. How can i do this? My software is in PHP and ovf is Linux Cent OS 7.
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How to connect ESXi vm console from ESXi host console

Trying to automate ovf installation on a ESXi server. I am able to deploy the ovf using ovftool then when I powered-on that vm it ask for input immidiatelly in boot console. /vmfs/volumes/Datastore-3/vmware-ovftool/ovftool -dm=thin -ds=…
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