Converting VMX to an OVA
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VMware has VMX format which works for VMware products. The other commonly found format which is OVF, as this is a open standard (OVA is OVF but compressed into a single file). There are times where converting between the two formats is required.
In order to convert from VMware’s VMX to a OVA file, we will use . If you already have either VMware workstation or VMware fusion pre-installed, you may already have it (else it can be downloaded as a standalone program for free). Its default locations are:
Linux: /usr/bin/ovftool
OS X/macOS: /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/VMware OVF Tool/ovftool
Windows: C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\OVFTool\ovftool.exe
We will be using the to convert. To start with unzip it to get access to the vmx within:
We can now start to convert by doing the following:
That’s it!
The OVA file can be now move and used where needed such as to ESXi (if the in-built upload feature is not working) or migrate to VirtualBox (You may need to install Guest Addition if so).