I needed to run an appliance inside VMware Fusion on my Mac, the appliance was in OVF format. VMware Fusion currently does not support this format and requires you to convert the image with a tool called ovftool which can be downloaded at the following location: http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vsphere/automationtools/ovf
Conversion is as simple as:
./ovftool "source.ovf" "target"
Optionally you could use parameters that are described in full detail when running ovftool –help. What remains is importing the created .vmx into Fusion, that’s it.
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There is no need to download it, ovftool is provided with fusion now, and should be well hidden in /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/ovftool/
IIRC, there is a “lite” packaging of fusion which may not include ovftool, but I’m not sure.
i know it’s old post, but was searching for ovftool on osx recently myself. it is only available as an addon in full package.