Notes : in short, ova is an 'archive' containing an ovf file, a vmdk hard disk. Select the ovf or ova file of the virtual machine to import. To do this, go to the File menu and click Open. To import a virtual machine in OVF format into VMware Workstation, simply open it as you would with any VMware virtual machine. Import from OVF (Open Virtual Machine Format) the associated virtual hard disk(s) in vmdk formatĢ.2.

the configuration of the virtual machine in ovf format.

Once exported, you will find several files : Wait while exporting the virtual machine. Note that you can't export encrypted VMware virtual machines in OVF format and the VM must be stopped before you can export it in OVF format. In short, to export a VMware virtual machine in OVF format, open it in VMware Workstation, then go to the 'File' menu and click on : Export to OVF. Export to OVF (Open Virtual Machine Format)

Version 2.0 of the OVF format is not yet supported by VMware Workstation. In addition, some virtualization solutions only support specific versions of the OVF format.įor example : VMware Workstation (version 15 for the moment) currently only supports the OVF format in version 1.x. Of course, after importing it, you must uninstall the drivers installed from the old virtualization solution and install the new drivers. It's theoretically possible to transfer a virtual machine from a virtualization solution (like VMware Workstation, VirtualBox. To maximize compatibility with other virtualization solutions, the Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF) has been created and has been proposed since 2007 as a standard for virtual machine exchange. Export and import in Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF)

Open ova in vmware