VMware OVF Tool 4.2.0System Requirements-VMware OVF Tool is supported on the following operating systems:Windows 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x86x64)Windows VistaWindows 2008Windows 7Windows 8Windows 2012Windows 8.1Windows 2013 R2Linux 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x86x64)CentOS 6.xFedora Core 14.x 15.x 16.x 17.x 18.xRedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.xSUSE Enterprise Server 11.xUbuntu Desktop 10.x 11.x 12.xMac OS X:Mac OS X 10.7Mac OS X 10.8Mac OS X 10.9Changes since 4.1.0-. Added SHA256 and SHA512 support for both manifest validation and digitalsigning. Improved security by disabling TLSv1.0 protocol. Added the -sslVersioncommand line option to allow users to specify SSL version for HTTPSconnections. Improved security by disabling Diffie Hellman cipher from the default ciphersuite.
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Download VMware OVF Tool 3.5.0 from our website for free. The program's installer is commonly called converter.exe, Setup Capture.exe, vmnetcfg.exe, vmplayer.exe or vmware.exe etc. The most popular versions of the tool 3.5, 3.0 and 2.1. The actual developer of the free software is VMware, Inc.
Added a command line option -sslCipherList to allow user to overridedefault cipher suite. Bug fixes and feature enhancements.Changes since 4.0.0-.
Expose debug options to users. Bug fixes and feature enhancements.Changes since 3.5.0-. Bug fixes and improvementsChanges since 3.0.2-.
Support for vCloud Suite 5.5. Full IPv6 support against vCloud Director 5.5Changes since 3.0.1-. Signed Mac OS X installer.
Fix bug on Mac OS to handle OVF Tool being in $PATH and resolve the installdirectory correctly.Changes since 3.0-. Changed default to not export device subtypes for CDrom/floppy/parallel/serialports.
This improves portability between Workstation and ESX. This can becontrolled with the -exportDeviceSubtypes option. Fixed bug in handling of message bundles. Fixed bug in handling of misaligned memory sizesChanges since 2.1.0-. Supported values for diskMode and ipAllocationPolicy have changed.
See -help for more info. Support for vSphere 5.1.
Lossless support when exporting OVFs/VMXs. Support for reading/writing sha256 manifests. See -help for more info. Improved security by verifying SSL thumbprints. This is controlled by the options-sourceSSLThumbprint, -targetSSLThumbprint, and -noSSLVerify.
The defaultis to verify and prompt for acceptance.Changes since 2.0.1-. Support for vCloud as both a source and a target.
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Enhanced integration support (-machineMode). Support for vSphere 5.0. Improved lax mode support. Improved error reports.Changes since 2.0.0-. Fixed bug that caused OVF Tool not to work with the 'Import from vSphere'feature on the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace. Fixed launch issue on Linux/Mac if installed in a location where the pathincludes spaces.
Fixed issue with properties when importing to vApprun workspace.Changes since 1.0.1-. Support for the OVF 1.1 specification.
Support for OVF packages that includes ISO and floppy images. Support for vApprun as target and source(see ).
Support for OVF Tool on the Mac OS X operating system (Intel-only). A lax mode (-lax) that enables a best-effort conversion of OVFpackages which do not fully conform to the OVF standard or includevirtual hardware that is not supported by the destination. For example,VirtualBox (version 3.0 and 3.1) produced OVF packages can be converted in lax mode. Bug fix for handling vmxnet3 targets.FAQ-Q: How do I use OVF Tool with VMware Server 2.0.x?A: VMware Server 2.0.x default port is 8333. To connect to a VMware Server 2.0host use vi://username:password@hostname:8333/ as target/source.Q: What type of X.509 certificates does OVF Tool use?A: X509 certicates used for OVF Tool must be properly formatted so that eachline in the base64 encoding is 64 characters long except the last line whichmay be shorter. This conforms to RFC 1421(cf. Page 12,).Q: Can I use the OVF Tool on the ESX Service Console?A: Yes.
However, you must use a VI locator as a target (use localhost as thehost), and specify the username/password for the host. Using a filetarget (i.e., a file path directly to a VMFS volume) will generatefiles that are incompatible with ESX.Q: Can I use OVF tool on an ESX host to backup a VMX file?A: Yes, but you have to use a VI source locator to export the virtual machineto an OVF package. Do not use OVF Tool directly on the VMX files on a VMFSfilesystem.Q: How do I encode special characters in locators?A: The locators are URLs, so special characters must be escaped using% followedby their ASCII hex value. For instance, if you use a '@' in your password, itmust be escaped with%40 as in vi://foo:b%40r@hostname, and a slash ina Windows domain name can be specified as%5c.Q: Which versions of vSphere support OVF packages with ISO/floppy images?A: vSphere 4.1 and later. You can use the flag -noImageFiles to ignore uploadof ISO and floppy image files for older versions of vSphere.Q: When using a windows network share as target filesystem it fails with 'Failed to create disk:someserverPublictest-disk1.vmdk. Reason: The destination file system doesnot support large files.' A: A workaround for this is to assign a drive letter for the network share oradd support for 'compression', 'unicode on disk' and 'persistent ACLs' as filesystemattributes on the shared filesystem.For More Information-For more information about VMware OVF Tool, seeFollow the vApp blog on-Copyright 2012 VMware, Inc.
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