Vmware Ovf Tool For Mac Os X

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Installing VMware ovftool on Mac OS X Posted on Sun 08 January 2012 in Mac VMware offers a free tool to convert virtual machine files in different formats for example from.vmx to.ovf. OVF Tool for Mac OS X now included as optional install with full download or CD install OVF Tool 2: Import and export OVF packaged virtual machines and upload to vSphere with bundled OVF Tool Drag a disk image or virtual disk to the installation media pane of the assistant.

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  4. The VMware OVF Tool is a command-line utility that allows administrators to import and export Open Virtualization Format packages to and from VMware products. An OVF package is a group of files required for importing a virtual machine.

I am in the process of moving several VMs created in VMWare Fusion 5 into ESXi 5.1, which I just installed on a Mac Mini Server. I am able to connect just fine via the Windows application installed on another VM. I have created two OVF files, one for Server 2003 and another for Server 2012. Both files were created without incident. I am able to upload them to the ESXi server seemingly without issue as well.

However, when I start either of the VMs, I get the following error(s):

Console:

And in the GUI:

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I'm unsure how to proceed, as I have followed the steps outlined to create an OVF file and upload it to the ESX. Both of these VMs work fine through Fusion.

Thanks in advance.

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After arduous research and trial and error, I've finally been able to solve this issue. First of all, if you're migrating Fusion VMs to ESXi, I recommend not using the OVF tool. At least for me, it never worked properly. Instead, I used the vmware-vdiskmanager tool, which is built into Fusion. The instructions for this migration are listed below:

  1. Open Terminal.
  2. Run the following command, inserting the correct VMWare Fusion vmdk file source and new vmdk destination:

    /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-vdiskmanager > -r /path/to/vmware_fusion.vmwarevm/vmware_fusion.vmdk -t 4 /path/to/esxi.vmdk

  3. The conversion process, once complete, will create two files: filename.vmdk, and filename-flat.vmdk.
  4. Launch the vSphere client through your web browser to your ESXi server.
  5. Once logged in, go to File New Virtual Machine
  6. In the Configuration window, select Custom.
  7. In the Storage window, select the datastore location to store the new VM.
  8. In the Virtual Machine Version window, use the default option of Virtual Machine Version: 8.
  9. Select the desired settings for Guest OS, CPUs, Memory, Network, and SCSI Controller.
  10. In the Select a Disk window, choose the Do Not Create Disk option.
  11. Click the Finish button.
  12. In the ESXi server settings, select the Configuration tab then click on Storage.
  13. In Storage, select your datastore and right-click to select Browse Datastore.
  14. Select the folder name that corresponds to the new VM.
  15. Select the Upload button.
  16. Upload the filename.vmdk and filename-flat.vmdk files from Step 3.
  17. Once complete, you will only see the filename.vmdk file in the datastore.
  18. Select the VM and Edit virtual machine settings under the Get Started tab.
  19. Click the Add button in the Virtual Machine Properties window.
  20. For Device Type, select Hard Disk, and choose Use an existing virtual disk.
  21. Locate the datastore and select the existing disk.
  22. In the Advanced Options, leave the default settings.
  23. Select Finish and OK to close the Virtual Machine Properties.
  24. At this point, you should be able to boot to the newly migrated VM.

Guidance for this came from MacTech's June 2013 issue, reproduced at the author's blog here. Many kudos to Rich Trouton for this article.

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I would suggest using the VMWare converter to move the virtual machines from one host to another. This will do all the heavy lifting for you. It's free.

This is your best option as the converter does all the vm configurations and settings for you. This is also suggested in the KB Article (1000936) from VMWare.

You have to do this on a windows machine. Inside a VM on the same fusion host works just fine.

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There has been an update to OVFTOOL around since March 2015 (Now V4.1.0.). With this OSX version I have much fewer trouble to get OVFTool to work. Even a OSX VM transfer from Fusion to ESXi is now just a one line like:

Finally it is working like expected, when the old versions just copied parts or I had to try 10 times to get the desired results with some crude workarounds.So please give it another try! ;)

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I’m demonstrating these steps in Intel Core2duo computer with 3GB RAM with Windows 7 32Bit computer and VMware workstation 7.1.

What You Need?

1) Working Snow Leopard Virtual Machine in VMware or VirtualBox

Check my earlier guides to install Snow Leopard on VMware or on VirtualBox

2) Lion Leopard Installation DMG (Available for developers in Apple site and some torrents sites). You can use the original retail DVD after the final release.

Why You Need This Installer Image?

1) There are no boot loaders available to boot the original Lion installer in VMware.

2) The installation package available in DMG file can’t be installed in virtualization platform.

Steps to Follow.

1) Attach a 5GB new virtual hard disk (VMDK) file to working Snow leopard Virtual machine.

2) Press Initialize when you start the Mac OS X virtual machine. Create a partition with following configuration in newly attached 5GB virtual hard disk.

  • Name – LionInstaller
  • Format: Mac OS X Extended
  • Partitions: Single partition – Apple Partition Map

3) Now attach the Lion Installation DMG or ISO you downloaded from Apple or Torrent sites to VMware virtual machine’s CD drive. Once you connect, it will be automatically mounted in SL virtual machine.

Convert DMG file to ISO in Windows host as shown here. The file is mounted as “Mac OS X Install ESD” under Volumes.

4) We need to copy the base system image from mounted ISO to our LionInstaller (new VMDK file). Mount the base system image from terminal and run the following command.

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This will mount it as “Mac OS X Base System” in desktop and under Volumes.

5) After Base System mounted, we can use Restore feature under disk utility to copy the entire data.

Go to Disk Utilities and select the source and destination as shown below to start the restore – this will copy the entire base system to 5GB hard disk.

Provide the root access password.

6) Copy the kernelcache files with following command.

7) Modify the plist file to enable the kernelcahce we copied in new installer disk.

Go to /Volumes/LionInstaller/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ and open com.apple.Boot.plist file with TextEdit.

Enter following string and save the file.

If you face any permission issues, save this file to Desktop or any other folder then move to the destination, this time it will ask to authenticate, provide root access password.

OR, use sudo vi command to modify this file in terminal.

Make sure this file is modified as shown in above example in new installer image.

8.) Now copy the installation packages by following commands.

Second command will copy large size of data to new VMDK file. Wait for some time.

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9) We are almost done. Since VMware supports Mac OS X server versions only, newly created installation image should be flagged as server version.

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Run the following command.

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That’s it, our bootable Lion installer image is ready and it can boot in VMware without any boot loaders. Shutdown the running Snow Leopard virtual machine and remove the 5GB VMDK file from virtual machine. This VMDK file can be attached to other new Lion VM to boot and install.

I successfully managed to install Lion OS X 10.7 on my VMware workstation 7.1 in Windows 7 Intel host computer with this image.

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I will be sharing the complete installation steps in coming days. Stay tuned with Sysprobs.

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This guide is based on other guide published in obviouslogic.com, where he created installer image on Mac host computer and used the same image in VMware Fusion. Big thanks for obviouslogic.com owner for excellent idea which can be used in Virtual machine and Windows VMware also.