Select a Virtual Appliance Source

You can convert a virtual appliance to a VMware Infrastructure virtual machine or a standalone virtual machine, such as Workstation 6.x.

Prerequisites

Converter Standalone supports, as sources, OVF 0.9 and OVF 1.0 virtual appliances that contain one virtual machine. Virtual appliances that contain multiple virtual machines are not supported.

If you select an OVF 1.0 source and it contains at least one required product with properties, you can only convert it to a vCenter Server 4.0 destination. ESX 4.0 is not supported as a destination for OVF 1.0 sources that contain required products with properties. If the source OVF does not contain any required properties, you can select an ESX 4.0 hosted destination as well.

Procedure

1	On the Specify Source page, select Virtual appliance from the Select source type drop-down menu.

2	Complete the Choose virtual appliance pane.

a	To convert a virtual appliance from your hard drive or a network location, select File System from the Location drop-down menu and browse for your virtual appliance.

b	To convert a virtual appliance uploaded on a Web server, select URL from the Location drop-down menu and enter the URL in the Enter the web location field.

3	Click Next.

The Appliance Details page appears.

4	(Optional) View information about a virtual appliance source and select the product configuration for sources that support product configurations.

The data you can view on the Appliance details page depends on the OVF version of the source you selected. Only OVF 1.0 sources can contain deployment configurations. If OVF 0.9 and OVF 1.0 source virtual appliances do not contain deployment configurations, you can only view the virtual appliance details.

For OVF 1.0 sources that contain deployment configurations, you can also select the product configuration. Selecting a different product configuration might affect the hardware settings and properties default values of the target virtual machine created to run on a vCenter Server 4.0 or a Workstation destination.

■	Click Advanced under the Virtual appliance details pane to toggle between the Basic and Advanced modes of the virtual appliance details view of an OVF source that does not contain deployment configurations.

■	Use the Select configuration drop-down menu to change the product configuration of an OVF 1.0 source with deployment configurations and click Next.

The device settings and default property values on the View/Edit Options page might vary, depending on the product configuration you select.

■	If you receive a prompt, select I accept the terms in all license agreements on the EULA page and click Next.

The Specify Destination page appears.

What to do next

You can now select the destination for the new virtual machine.

Related tasks

Select a Destination for the New Virtual Machine