Using VMWare’s OVFTool to convert VMX to OVA

It’s sometimes necessary (say you’ve been working on a VM on your local workstation in either VMWare Fusion, or VMWare Workstation) to move the VM you’ve been playing with to an ESXi instance to either move into development or to have it properly backed up etc. The easiest way I find to do this is create a .ova file from the VM i’ve been working on. First install the VMWare OVATool found here on whatever flavour your OS is (sign in required): https://my....

February 10, 2014 · Myles Gray