what can i do when i want to export vm to ova use cot

[mygoda]

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thank you @glennmatthews

[glennmatthews]

@mygoda Can you clarify the question please? Happy to help but I'm not clear what you are asking.

[mygoda]

my question is that i want to convert vm to ova file. that i use ovftool like this: ./ovftool --X:logLevel=verbose --X:logFile=/Users/tao-xu/Downloads/up.log --noSSLVerify -st=VI vi://{{username}}@yf.local:{{ password }}@{{host}}/YFCLOUD/vm/{{ vm_name }} {{ ova_file path }}

what can i do when i use cot achieve that。 thanks

[glennmatthews]

OK, so as I understand the question, you're currently using ovftool to export a VI VM to an OVA. You'd like to be able to use COT instead of ovftool for this purpose? Is there some functionality that ovftool lacks, or would you just prefer to use COT for consistency?

Thanks!

[mygoda]

yes，ovftool can work for me， and i use it work well。 so i think that cot can do it too. now? can you tell me. cot can do this? or cot will do it feature?

[glennmatthews]

It's not in the current COT feature set. I'm not opposed to adding this functionality (essentially the inverse of the current cot deploy esxi feature) but I'd like to have more specifics about the requirements so that I don't end up simply re-implementing ovftool. :-)

[mygoda]

thanks