Thursday, November 17, 2011

Convert .ova to .ovf in Linux

I just spent the better part of 20 minutes searching for a method to convert a .ova file downloaded from the web to the .ovf format required by my version of VirtualBox-ose. VMWare has a program called OVFTool that may do this conversion but requires registering to download and may only be available as a windows binary. After hitting several dead ends I found the simple answer. As it turns out the .ova file format is a tar image!

tar xvf SomeVMImage.ova

will dump the .ovf and related files. Easy as pi!
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10 comments:

  1. Rob WeaverMay 7, 2012 at 4:24 PM

    Thanks, Exactly what I needed today !

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  2. UnknownApril 6, 2013 at 8:29 AM

    I wish I had found this a few months back. It would have saved me a handful of grief. Thanks.

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  3. UnknownMay 29, 2013 at 7:17 AM

    Thanks for that! Saved me a lot of time this morning.

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  4. marcelgalemaSeptember 20, 2013 at 6:37 AM

    Haha, so the whole tool is just a Windows wrapper around tar?? Thanks for the tip!

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  5. meetpprNovember 14, 2014 at 9:51 PM

    It saved me lots of time...!
    Thank you.

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  6. babokaNovember 25, 2015 at 3:09 AM

    10x great knowledge

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  7. VishnuAugust 11, 2016 at 8:08 PM

    thanks ! it worked for me.

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  8. Egos DesbocadosNovember 11, 2016 at 5:07 AM

    Thanks, man. I did it the opposite way and worked for me

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  9. hFebruary 4, 2017 at 12:57 AM

    Thanks so much..!!!

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