The Telco Cloud Operations deploy tool is compatible with VMware OVF Tool, version 4.3.0.

Prerequisites

Customers should contact their VMware representative for the binary VMware OVF Tool.

Procedure

  1. Download the VMware OVF Tool and copy it to your host under your home directory (or other location). 
    $ wget http://build-squid.eng.vmware.com/build/mts/release/bora-13912821/publish/VMware-ovftool-4.3.0-13912821-lin.x86_64.zip
--2020-06-21 18:15:45--  http://build-squid.eng.vmware.com/build/mts/release/bora-13912821/publish/VMware-ovftool-4.3.0-13912821-lin.x86_64.zip
Resolving build-squid.eng.vmware.com (build-squid.eng.vmware.com)... fd01:3:4:2809:0:1:16:187, fd01:3:4:2809:0:1:16:186, fd01:3:4:2809:0:1:16:183, ...
Connecting to build-squid.eng.vmware.com (build-squid.eng.vmware.com)|fd01:3:4:2809:0:1:16:187|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 20872902 (20M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘VMware-ovftool-4.3.0-13912821-lin.x86_64.zip’
 
 
100%[=======================================================================================================>] 20,872,902  47.9MB/s   in 0.4s  
 
 
2020-06-21 18:15:46 (47.9 MB/s) - ‘VMware-ovftool-4.3.0-13912821-lin.x86_64.zip’ saved [20872902/20872902]
  2. Unzip the VMware OVF Tool. 
    $ unzip VMware-ovftool-4.3.0-13912821-lin.x86_64.zip
Archive:  VMware-ovftool-4.3.0-13912821-lin.x86_64.zip
   creating: ovftool/
   creating: ovftool/.installer/
   creating: ovftool/.installer/4.3.0/
 extracting: ovftool/.installer/4.3.0/__init__.py 
   creating: ovftool/.installer/4.3.0/include/
  inflating: ovftool/.installer/4.3.0/include/initscript.py 
  inflating: ovftool/.installer/4.3.0/include/systemType.py 
  inflating: ovftool/.installer/4.3.0/include/update.py 
  inflating: ovftool/.installer/4.3.0/include/versions.py 
  inflating: ovftool/.installer/4.3.0/vmware-ovftool.py 
  inflating: ovftool/README.txt     
   creating: ovftool/certs/
  inflating: ovftool/certs/cacert.pem 
   creating: ovftool/env/
  inflating: ovftool/env/defloc.vlcl 
   creating: ovftool/env/en/
  inflating: ovftool/env/en/action.vmsg 
  inflating: ovftool/env/en/alarm.vmsg 
  inflating: ovftool/env/en/auth.vmsg 
  inflating: ovftool/env/en/cluster.vmsg 
  inflating: ovftool/env/en/default.vmsg 
  inflating: ovftool/env/en/enum.vmsg 
  inflating: ovftool/env/en/evc.vmsg 
  inflating: ovftool/env/en/event.vmsg 
  inflating: ovftool/env/en/eventaux.vmsg 
  inflating: ovftool/env/en/fault.vmsg 
  inflating: ovftool/env/en/gos.vmsg 
  inflating: ovftool/env/en/host.vmsg 
  inflating: ovftool/env/en/locmsg.vmsg 
  inflating: ovftool/env/en/option.vmsg 
  inflating: ovftool/env/en/ovftool-warning.vmsg 
  inflating: ovftool/env/en/ovftool.vmsg 
  inflating: ovftool/env/en/perf.vmsg 
  inflating: ovftool/env/en/question.vmsg 
  inflating: ovftool/env/en/stask.vmsg 
  inflating: ovftool/env/en/task.vmsg 
  inflating: ovftool/env/en/vm.vmsg 
  inflating: ovftool/env/iso2psx.vlcl 
  inflating: ovftool/env/iso2win.vlcl 
  inflating: ovftool/env/isodata.vlcl 
  inflating: ovftool/env/loc2iso.vlcl 
  inflating: ovftool/env/ovftool-hw10-config-option.xml 
  inflating: ovftool/env/ovftool-hw11-config-option.xml 
  inflating: ovftool/env/ovftool-hw12-config-option.xml 
  inflating: ovftool/env/ovftool-hw13-config-option.xml 
  inflating: ovftool/env/ovftool-hw14-config-option.xml 
  inflating: ovftool/env/ovftool-hw15-config-option.xml 
  inflating: ovftool/env/ovftool-hw3-config-option.xml 
  inflating: ovftool/env/ovftool-hw4-config-option.xml 
  inflating: ovftool/env/ovftool-hw7-config-option.xml 
  inflating: ovftool/env/ovftool-hw8-config-option.xml 
  inflating: ovftool/env/ovftool-hw9-config-option.xml 
  inflating: ovftool/icudt44l.dat   
  inflating: ovftool/libcares.so.2  
  inflating: ovftool/libcrypto.so.1.0.2 
  inflating: ovftool/libcurl.so.4   
  inflating: ovftool/libexpat.so    
  inflating: ovftool/libgcc_s.so.1  
  inflating: ovftool/libgoogleurl.so.59 
  inflating: ovftool/libicudata.so.58 
  inflating: ovftool/libicuuc.so.58 
  inflating: ovftool/libssl.so.1.0.2 
  inflating: ovftool/libssoclient.so 
  inflating: ovftool/libstdc++.so.6 
  inflating: ovftool/libvim-types.so 
  inflating: ovftool/libvmacore.so  
  inflating: ovftool/libvmomi.so    
  inflating: ovftool/libxerces-c-3.1.so 
  inflating: ovftool/libz.so.1      
  inflating: ovftool/manifest.xml   
  inflating: ovftool/open_source_licenses.txt 
  inflating: ovftool/ovftool        
  inflating: ovftool/ovftool.bin    
   creating: ovftool/schemas/
   creating: ovftool/schemas/DMTF/
  inflating: ovftool/schemas/DMTF/CIM_ResourceAllocationSettingData.xsd 
  inflating: ovftool/schemas/DMTF/CIM_VirtualSystemSettingData.xsd 
  inflating: ovftool/schemas/DMTF/common.xsd 
  inflating: ovftool/schemas/DMTF/dsp8023.xsd 
  inflating: ovftool/schemas/DMTF/dsp8027.xsd 
  inflating: ovftool/schemas/DMTF/xml.xsd 
   creating: ovftool/schemas/vmware/
  inflating: ovftool/schemas/vmware/ovf-vmware.xsd 
  inflating: ovftool/schemas/vmware/ovfenv-vmware.xsd 
  inflating: ovftool/vmware-eula.rtf 
  inflating: ovftool/vmware.eula
  3. Add the following line to your .bashrc file:
    export PATH=$PATH:/home/worker/ovftool
    Notice the added .bashrc file line at the bottom. 
    $ cat .bashrc
# .bashrc
 
 
# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
    . /etc/bashrc
fi
 
 
# Uncomment the following line if you don't like systemctl's auto-paging feature:
# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=
 
 
# User specific aliases and functions
export PATH=$PATH:/home/worker/ovftool
  4. Run the .bashrc file:
    $ source .bashrc
  5. Verify the VMware OVF Tool is installed. 
    $ ovftool --version
 
VMware ovftool 4.3.0 (build-13912821)

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