Export VMWare Player’s Virtual Machines to an OVF file

Posted on Sunday, March 23, 2014 8:04 pm by TCAT Shelbyville IT Department

Need to move your VMWare or import it into VirtualBox?  In order to perform an export, download the ovftool from VMWare.  Install the software and after the installation-

  • Find the path to your VM
  • Open a command prompt (elevated).
  • Type CD\program files\vmware\vmware OVF_Tool
  • Enter
  • type ovftool “C:\the path to your VM\your VMname.vmx”  c:\new directory\name.ovf

 

Below you will see common syntax errors and the correct syntax at the bottom of the screenshot

 

ovf export

 

More information on the OVF Tool.

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