Export VM as a OVF file from VMware Fusion

Question

I am currently running VMware Fusion 6 on 10.9. I know that in ESX, and I believe even VMware Workstation, you can export a VM to a OVF file and redeploy on VirtualBox, VMware Workstaion/Fusion, and ESX.

My question is, is there a way I can make a OVF file on Fusion for the VM I want to deploy or am I out of luck?

Answer 1

./ovftool --acceptAllEulas /Users/admin/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/IDM.vmwarevm/IDM.vmx ~/Users/admin/Documents/IDM.ova

Answer 2

cd /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/VMware\ OVF\ Tool/

./ovftool  <PATH TO SOURCE VM's .vmx file>   <PATH TO OUTPUT ova file>

# example

./ovftool --acceptAllEulas ~/Documents/Virtual\ Machines.localized/CentOS\ 6.5.vmwarevm/CentOS\ 6.5.vmx      /tmp/CentOS6.5.ova

Answer 3

If you have upgraded VMware Fusion, you can export ova in GUI. As of VMware Fusion 7.1.3, you can do this in File->Export to OVF, like this.

Answer 4

Download the appropriate installer from VMware's site

For my OSX setup, rather than the convoluted white spaced pathing to the tool, I created a symlink so my $PATH could pick it up

sudo ln -s /Applications/VMware\ OVF\ Tool/ovftool /usr/local/bin/ovftool

And then ran ovftool like marathon