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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