Vmware Ovf Tool For Mac Osx

11-05-2021
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This article details the procedure to install VMware Tools in a guest running macOS. For more information about VMware Tools, see Overview of VMware Tools for VMware Fusion (1022048). Note: macOS guests are only supported in VMware Fusion virtual machines.

VMware offers a free tool to convert virtual machine files in differentformats for example from .vmx to .ovf.

This tool can be used to convert:

Or you can deploy a OVF directly to a ESX host. It's more powerful thanit looks like.

The documentation can be found on the VMware site and it's short andclear.

Installation:

Download the documentation and the tool from the VMware site:http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/ovf/

You need a VMware id to have access but the tool itself is free.

After you downloaded the tool you can install it using the installer.The stand alone version 2.1 (which I used) will be located here:/Applications/VMware OVF Tool/

Start a terminal and change to this directory:

Now convert your files like you want. For example:

Os X Vmware Image

Os x vmware image
ovftool vmxs/Fedora.vmx ovfs/Fedora.ova

More examples how the tool can be used are shown by the command

Examples:

ovftool --vService:vDep1=provider_1 /ovfs/my_vapp.ovf
vi://username:pass@localhost/my_datacenter/host/esx01.example.com
(.ovf file to .vmx file. Result files are /vms/my_vapp/my_vapp.[vmx|vmdk])
Linux
(.vmx file to .ovf file. Result is put in /ovfs/my_vapp.[ovf|vmdk])
ovftool https://my_ovf_server/ovfs/my_vapp.ova /vm/my_vm.vmx
ovftool /ovfs/my_vapp.ovf vi://username:pass@my_esx_host
ovftool /ovfs/my_vm.vmx vi://username:pass@my_esx_host
(.ovf file from a web server to ESX host using defaults)
(.ovf file to vCenter server using managed ESX host ip address)
ovftool vi://username:pass@my_vc_server/my_datacenter?ds=

Os X On Vmware

(VM on ESX/vCenter server to OVF using datastore location query)
vi://username:pass@my_vc_server/my_datacenter/host/my_host
(.ovf file to vCenter server using vCenter inventory path)
ovftool vi://username:pass@my_host/my_datacenter/vm/my_vm_folder/my_vm_name

Vmware Ovf Tool For Linux

(VC/ESX vm to .ovf file)
(Imports a .vmx file into a vApprun workspace using default name)
(shows summary information about the OVF package [probe mode])