Deploying an OVF Package into a vApprun Workspace

A vApprun workspace allows Workstation and Fusion users to run vApps. It provides a complete vApprun execution environment, that includes nested vApps, OVF properties, and an OVF environment. The environment is fully compatible with vSphere 4 and all later releases.

Read more about vApprun at: http://labs.vmware.com/flings/vApprun.

To deploy an OVF package into a vApprun workspace, simply use a target locator that points to your vApprun workspace, as shown in the following example:

> ovftool myOvfPackage c:\My_vApprun_workspace\

A common scenario is that the current directory is the vApprun workspace (since all vApprun commands are relative to this), so you can just use a “.” as the target locator, as shown in the following example:

> ovftool http://www.mycompany.com/ovflib/BigDemo.ovf.