On 01/19/2012 08:44 PM, David Schmidt wrote:
On 1/19/2012 6:09 PM, Steven Hirsch wrote:On 01/19/2012 12:43 PM, Ivan Drucker wrote:See, I knew there'd be issues. Like a dead link to the virtual machine file itself (sheesh). If you tried to download it and got a Page Not Found before, please try again.Ivan, Do you know offhand if that .ova image can be converted for use with VMware? I have a $$$ license for Workstation and would like to try it there.OVA is just the OVF in one file, isn't it? Tarred up? I use OVFs all the time with VMware. You can deploy OVFs directly.
That's what about 40% of the mutually-conflicting articles on the net claim, but VMware Workstation panics trying to boot the extracted vmdks directly. I downloaded 'ovftool' and tried a conversion that way, but it complains that it doesn't know anything about "virtualbox-2.2" images. That was after a protracted fight just getting ovftool to install - it kept throwing an error about a conflict with an existing VMware resource. Ended up putting it in a chroot environment. There were hints that - somehow - this function was built into Workstation 7.5, but damned if I could find it.
I love standards. Everybody should have their own! Steve