What is OVA and What is OVF?
- Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is an open standard for packaging and distributing virtual appliances. 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, as such you may have seen OVFs for use with vSphere and Hyper-V etc.
- An OVA file is saved in the Open Virtualization Format (OVF). OVA files are just an OVF directory saved in a single archive using tar packaging in order to make it easier to distribute.
VMware OVF Tool
The VMware OVF Tool is a command-line utility that can import and export Open Virtualization Format (OVF) packages and covert between .ovf and .ova.
You can download the tool here, and view the user guide, which contains detailed instruction on it’s use.
Once it has been downloaded, run the Windows installer.
Installation guide VMware OVF Tool:
Steps to convert OVA to OVF file
- Open CMD run as admin
- cd to this path C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool
- Then use this parameters C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool> ovftool.exe “C:\Temp\Superna\Superna_Eyeglass.2.5.5-19234-lp15.1.x86_64.ova” “C:\Temp\Superna\Superna1\Superna_Eyeglass.2.5.5-19234-lp15.1.x86_64.ovf”
This is the output.
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