![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The complete usage guide of OVFTool is available here. I will be using the GUI and CLI method here. In this example, I will export a VMware VM (Windows 7 guest) to OVF format and import into Oracle VirtualBox. You can download OVFtool from VMware official site if you are using older products than Workstation 7.1 or VMPlayer 3.1 Here we are going to discuss the export option with OVF tool on Windows 10/8.1 clients that have VMware workstation or VMware player. VMware vSphere console has a GUI based OVF export tool to export a VM and distribute to different hosts or even different organizations. Importing a virtual machine in various virtualization software platform with OVF format is very easy since it has the pre-configured Virtual machine settings. Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is an industry-standard that describes metadata about virtual machine images in XML format. But, the OVF tool does the export in a professional manner, so you can publish on the Internet and share with others. Check my earlier guide about importing a VMDK file into VirtualBox. VMware’s virtual hard disk file format VMDK can be directly used by Oracle VirtualBox as a VM’s hard disk. Don’t you think why we have to use this tool when VirtualBox natively supports VMDK disk files? Yes, you are correct. ![]()
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