vagrant-ovf

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h2. Motivation

The idea comes from https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/322

Basically, the code is much similar with the one here(https://gist.github.com/1332279), but I spent some time to convert it to be a vagrant plugin.

h2. How to use it

To Use the plugin, you just need to install the gem like: gem install vagrant-ovf

After that, you can invoke the plugin like: vagrant ovf [box_name]

With the plugin, the box.ovf & box.mf will be updated to be compatible with VMWare and potential OVA.

To make a OVF archive, you can install ovftool from VMWare and invoke the following command: ovftool ~/.vagrant.box/boxes/[box_name]/box.ovf /tmp/[box_name].ova or ovftool ~/.vagrant.box/boxes/[box_name]/box.ovf /tmp/[box_name].vmx

Tha latter command will generate a VMWare openable archive under /tmp, and you can open it with VMWare Fusion.

Or, with standard zip tool like tar, you can archive the OVA as bellow: cd ~/.vagrant.box/boxes/[box_name] tar /tmp/[box_name].ova box.ovf box-disk1.vmdk box.mf Vagrantfile

Also, for more info, please check out my blog http://mingjin.thoughtworkers.org/?p=176 (sorry, it's in Chinese)

h2. License

MIT: http://rem.mit-license.org