The VMware OVF Tool is a command-line utility that allows you to import and export OVF packages to and from a wide variety of VMware platform products. OVF Tool 2.0.1 supports OVF version 1.0 and is backward compatible with OVF 0.9. This is the first major release since the initial release of OVF Tool 1.0 and a minor upgrade to the OVF Tool 2.0. Download VMware vSphere with Operations Management. Combine the world’s leading virtualization platform with best in class management capabilities, enabling users to gain operational insight, reduce capital and operating costs, and optimizing capacity.
OVF Tool 4.4.1 | 6 Oct 2020 | Resource on code.vmware.com
For vSphere 7.0 U1 | Last document update 5 Oct 2020
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For vSphere 7.0 U1 | Last document update 5 Oct 2020
Check later for additions and updates to these release notes.
What's in the Release Notes
These release notes cover the following topics:About the OVF Tool
OVF Tool 4.4.1 coincides with vSphere 7.0 Update 1.
VMware OVF Tool is a command-line utility that allows import and export of OVF packagesto and from virtual machines running on VMware virtualization platforms.OVF Tool gets called internally by many VMware products.
Before You Begin
You can download the OVF Tool for installation onWindows 64-bit or 32-bit, Linux 64-bit or 32-bit, Mac OS X 64-bit, and ARM 64-bit.The OVF Tool landing page provides a link to the software download group for each release.OVF Tool 4.4.1 supports the same operating systems as OVF Tool 4.4.
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What's New?
This is an update release of OVF Tool. See resolved issues below
- The OpenSSL library was upgraded to version 1.0.2v.10148
- The expat XML library was upgraded to version 2.2.9.4030
- The Xerces XML parser was upgraded to version 3.2.3
Compatibility Notices
When customers try to install vCenter Server 7.0.x from a browser on Mac OS X 10.15 Catalina,a popup dialog appears saying“vcsa-deploy.bin cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified”and installation fails with error“ovftool cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified.”This is due to greater security in Catalina and OVF Tool not being notarized for Apple.See KB 79416 for workarounds.
Resolved Issues
These fixed issues were OVF Tool 4.4.0 regressions:
- OVF Tool fails to login when invalid password is used in the locator URL.If an invalid password is provided in the locator URL, OVF Tool asks the user to enter a valid password. However OVF Tool did not use this new password provided by the user, resulting in login failure. This issue is fixed in this release. OVF Tool now uses the replacement password that the user supplies.
- During URL encoding OVF Tool mistakenly encoded the username.In OVF Tool 4.4.0, an invalid password resulted in the username being encoded along with the password, thereby preventing login to the target VI host. This issue is fixed in this release.
- OVF Tool could crash with no datastore specified.When the user did not specify a datastore, OVF Tool should have displayed an error message, but instead it crashed with a segmentation fault. The workaround was to specify the datastore argument. This issue has been fixed in this release.
You can import an Open Virtualization Format (OVF) virtual machine and run it in Fusion. You can import both .ovf and .ova files.
Fusion converts the virtual machine from OVF format to VMware runtime (.vmx) format.
OVF is a platform-independent, efficient, extensible, and open packaging and distribution format for virtual machines. For example, you can import OVF virtual machines exported from Workstation Pro into Fusion. You can import OVF 1.x files only.
You can also use the standalone OVF Tool to convert an OVF virtual machine to VMware runtime format. For information about using the OVF Tool, see the OVF Tool User Guide.
Download or copy the OVF virtual machine file (.ovf or .ova file) to a location that is accessible to your Mac.
Procedure
- Select File > Import.
- Click Choose file and browse to the .ovf or .ova file and click Open.
- Type the name for the imported virtual machine in the Save As text box and indicate where to save it. The default destination is the Virtual Machines folder created by Fusion.
- Click Save. Fusion performs OVF specification conformance and virtual hardware compliance checks. A status bar indicates the progress of the import process.
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After the import is complete, the virtual machine appears in the virtual machine library and in a separate virtual machine window. The virtual machine is shut down.