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NetBoot/SUS Appliance in VMX format?

  • July 30, 2012
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Is it possible to get the NetBoot/SUS appliance in a VMWare VMX format instead of OVA? Or does anyone perhaps know of a tool that can convert it?

Thanks!

Best answer by jarednichols

If you import the appliance into VirtualBox, you'll see the disk format is a vmdk file. I simply gave this to our VMWare folks and they imported it easily into their vSphere infrastructure.

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    • jake_snyder
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    • July 30, 2012

    I don't know about VMware workstation, but OVA works fine on VMware vsphere 5

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    • jarednichols
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    • July 30, 2012

    If you import the appliance into VirtualBox, you'll see the disk format is a vmdk file. I simply gave this to our VMWare folks and they imported it easily into their vSphere infrastructure.

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    • sgorney
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    • July 30, 2012

    Excellent, I'll try both of those. Thanks guys.

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    There is a command line tool from VMware to convert OVA to VMX.

    VMware OVF Tool: http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/1013

    Here you will find a good tutorial: http://derflounder.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/converting-jamfs-netbootsus-appliance-to-vmware/

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