Ovf Tool Vmware Download
We are happy to announce that OVF Tool 2.0.1 was released yesterday. It can be downloaded from here, and is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X (new!).
Downloading and installing the OVF Tool. The VMware OVF Tool (and OVF Tool User Guide) can be downloaded for free from: Install this utility on the local machine where the VM images reside. Create separate directories for the original and converted VM images. This podcast gives some information on VMware's ovftool, vCenter Converter Standalone client, and esxcli. Ansible playbook to automate downloading and installing ovftool. Ovftool can be downloaded from here. To use this role you must download the ovftool zip, host it in a local repository, and set ovf_zip_url to the location you store it. This role currently supports only.
This is the first major release since the initial release of OVF Tool 1.0 and a minor upgrade to the OVF Tool 2.0 version that is bundled with Fusion 3.1 and Workstation 7.1. I have included an excerpt from the README below which describes the changes:
Changes since 2.0.0
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. Fixed bug that caused OVF Tool not to work with the “Import from vSphere”
feature on the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace.
. Fixed launch issue on Linux/Mac if installed in a location where the path
includes spaces.
. Fixed issue with properties when importing to vApprun workspace.
Changes since 1.0.1
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. Support for the OVF 1.1 specification.
. Support for OVF packages that includes ISO and floppy images.
. Support for vApprun as target and source.
(see http://labs.vmware.com/flings/vapprun)
. Support for OVF Tool on the Mac OS X operating system (Intel-only).
. A lax mode (–lax) that enables a best-effort conversion of OVF
packages which do not fully conform to the OVF standard or include
virtual hardware that is not supported by the destination. For example,
VirtualBox (version 3.0 and 3.1) produced OVF packages can be converted in lax mode.
. Bug fix for handling vmxnet3 targets.
Fs2004 freeware scenery.
Please use the forum on the download page to post any comments or issues with the tool. We would like to hear to hear from you.
/Rene
Ansible playbook to automate downloading and installing ovftool.
Requirements
Ovftool can be downloaded from here. To use this role you mustdownload the ovftool zip, host it in a local repository, and set ovf_zip_url to the location you store it.
This role currently supports only Debian/Ubuntu distros.
Role Variables
Note: A non-defaulted variable, download_site, must be set by a vars fileor by other mechanism prior to calling this role. The download_site mustprovide a valid URL base (e.g., http://mysite.com/downloads)from which the download files (e.g., ISO files or similar) may be obtained.in particular, see the ovf_zip_url variable below.
Example playbook
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Author Information
Vmware Ovftool 4.1.0 Download
This role was created in 2015 by Tom Hite / VMware.