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Converting Open Virtualization Format (OVF) -Virtual Machines to VMware Fusion

repping · Feb 26, 2011 ·

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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  1. Yann says

    27 February, 2011 at 00:09

    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.

    • mihu says

      11 July, 2011 at 22:34

      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.

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Platform BU at VMware. He is a VCDX (# 007) and the author of the "vSAN Deep Dive" and the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series.

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