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 [...]

Lately I have been playing around in my Lab a lot. I tried many virtual appliances as I wanted to use a variety of workloads. I downloaded many appliances and hoped to have all of them up and running in a bare minimum amount of time. Apparently I miscalculated / underestimated the amount of work to get a virtual appliance [...]

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about VMware Studio 2.0. VMware Studio 2.0 has just officially been released. Source: VMware Studio 2.0 helps author, configure, deploy and customize vApps and virtual appliances. vApps support the industry standard Open Virtualization Format (OVF). vApps can be deployed on VMware vSphere 4.0 or in the cloud. vCenter Server 4.0 now supports creating [...]

I was trying to convert the great Nostalgia Virtual Appliance to a VMware Workstation compatible format but just copying didn’t work. I did the following to get this thing running directly under VMware Workstation 6.02: I exported the Nostalgia VM from VirtualCenter 2.5 into an OVF format. Copied the OVF files to my PC(d:\ovftools). Downloaded the OVF Tool and unzipped [...]