This OVF Tool User Guide provides information about how to use VMware® OVF Tool to package virtual machines and vApps into Open Virtualization Format (OVF) standard packages.
Revision History
Revision History shows the changes made for various versions of this manual.
| Revision | Description |
|---|---|
| 09/2023 | Revised with vSphere 8.0 U2. New vmxFromConfigFile option. Updated procedure for signing OVF packages. |
| 06/2023 | Changed chapter and section titles for search engine optimization. |
| 04/2023 | Revised with vSphere 8.0 U1. Deleted references to discontinued products, added pull mode. |
| 09/2022 | Revised with vSphere 8.0, including new virtual TPM support (vTPM). |
| 09/2021 | Reissued with vSphere 7.0 Update 3. |
| 10/2020 | Clarified password percent encoding for Update 1. |
| 04/2020 | Updated with new flags and features for vSphere 7.0 release. |
| 04/2019 | Clarified OVF Tool with ESXi as target. |
| 05/2018 | OVF Tool 4.3.0. Large upload retry, SHA digest fix, NVM and PMEM, Curl update, better logging, VBS and TPM support. |
| 10/2016 | OVF Tool 4.2.0. New options for SSL version and cipher list, NVRAM support for EFI boot. |
| 02/2016 | Mention need for explicit extraConfig flags on ESXi hosts. |
| 03/2015 | OVF Tool 4.1.0 User’s Guide. Added DVS port group, and --proxy option for vSphere or vCloud. |
| 12/2014 | Increased Open SSL compatibility version to 1.0.1j. See http://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html. |
| 10/2014 | OVF Tool 4.0.0 User’s Guide. Added --allowAllExtraConfig and --decodeBase64 command line options. |
| 06/2014 | OVF Tool 3.5.2 User’s Guide. Increased security for Open SSL. |
| 04/2014 | OVF Tool 3.5.1 User’s Guide. |
| 08/2013 | OVF Tool 3.5.0 User’s Guide. Includes new command line options. |
| 08/2012 | OVF Tool 3.0.1 User’s Guide. |
| 08/2011 | OVF Tool 2.1 User’s Guide. |
| 06/2010 | OVF Tool 2.0.1 Guide. |
| 05/2009 | OVF Tool 1.0 Guide. |
Intended Audience
This book is intended for anyone who needs to convert an OVF package to a virtual machine, or a virtual machine to an OVF package. Users typically include: system administrators, software developers, QA engineers, and anyone who need to package or unpackage virtual machines using open industry standards.
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