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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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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS VMware and Virtual Box ova/ovf images

I have a Java application that I'd like to distribute as a virtual machine appliance image (ovf or ova) for VMware and VirtualBox using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. The image would include the operating system itself, required OS packages, my Java application,…
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How can I make a OVA which works with static IP addreses?

We've make an OVA for customers, which uses DHCP to find its IP address. It's using CoreOS as the guest operating system. Some customers would like to be able to use a static IP address, configuring that in VMWare. What is the best practice way of…
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Issue Building PowerCLI Mass OVF Export Tool

Background I am creating a script, using PowerCLI, to perform mass OVF exports using VMware's ovftool. The script works by performing the following functions: Through PowerCLI arguments, take in the vCenter address, naming scheme of the VMs to…
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Is it possible to remotely run scripts in a guest OS using VCLI?

Using VMware OVF Tool 4.0, I'm deploying/powering on some VMs and would like to execute some scripts inside them. However, I was unable to assign injection properties to a VM, I.e: DNS, Gateway, etc. See OVF Tool documentation page 22 for more…
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How to sign an ova file?

I am trying to sign an ova file by following this link. I also generated the manifest file but I don't see any information in the signed file. Here is the command I am using: openssl req -x509 -nodes -sha256 -days 365 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout…
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create a standalone VM with vCloud Director API "createVm"

I'm trying to create a standalone VM with the API operation createVm. Here is my xml-template, which will be uploaded via my pythonscript after adding current datetime and StorageProfileHref:
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Ansible - How to supply a dict into a module's parameter of type dict?

Goal: Automate code to be ovf agnostic as possible. Build a playbook that will allow for any OVF template with any custom ovf properties and network interface names to be deployed without changing YAML playbook. Enviornment: ansible 2.8.7 …
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How do I find the InstanceID in an ova to set an IP Address when using ovftool to deploy to an ESXI 5.5. server

I found the following post which explained using the ovftool command line utility to set an IP address: https://www.mylesgray.com/virtualisation/deploying-ovaovf-remote-vcenter-using-ovftool/ My problem is that when I run the ovftool against the ova…
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Deploying an OVF/OVA file

Deploying an OVF/OVA file to a remote ESXi server I am trying to deploy an OVF/OVA file to a remote ESXi server. I want to do this from the command line. I have written a simple batch file which deploys the ovf using ovftool.exe. Here is my batch…
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Non-manual creation of appliance image (OVA)

I want to distribute base OS (Ubuntu 14.04) and my app+dependencies as an appliance in OVA format. So that once users deploy it in their virtualization systems, they have an operational system I can do this manually by manually creation VM,…
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How do you deploy VirtualSystemCollection enabled OVF/OVAs to ESXi?

When building an OVF, you can specify a tag for VirtualSystemCollection that allows you to have multiple VMs to share the same base disk image, but any changes that the individual machines make are Copy-On-Write into a private disk area for each…
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How to configure vApp properties in Terraform where ovf:userConfigurable="false"

The vapp properties which are set as ovf:userConfigurable="false" are unable to be configured when deploying to vSphere through Terraform. Ovftool has an option -X EnableHiddenProperties which allows such properties to be edited, when deploying…
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I have an .ova file that won't open in VirtualBox

When I try to import an .ova file in VirtualBox 5.1.8 I get an error: Error reading OVA '/filename.ova' (VERR_TAR_UNEXPECTED_EOS). Result Code: VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80BB0005) I've seen some info that I might need to update VirtualBox or maybe…
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Req. Ovftool command to overwrite memory size and CPU count described in ova file during deployment of VM

I have a OVA file(MyOvafile.ova) which contain MemorySize=16GB and CPU count=4. I have deployed the Ovftool on VMware ESXi server. I am using the following command to deploy the VM: /vmfs/volumes/DataStore1/vmware-ovftool/ovftool --memorySize:15360…
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The order of network interfaces mismatch between VMWare vSphere Client GUI and VM

I have an ova template. 6 network interfaces are defined in it, named net0, net1, net2, net3, net4, net5. The type of all of them is VMXNET3. When I deploy this ova template to ESXi6.0/5.5 server, one of steps is to configure the mapping from…
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