Select a Virtual Appliance Destination

You can export a virtual machine to a virtual appliance, making it available to other users to import into their inventories. The resulting virtual appliance is an OVF 1.0 appliance and contains one virtual machine.

You cannot use this option for physical machines or virtual appliance sources.

The OVF created as a result of this conversion is not compatible with Workstation 6.5.x, nor with Converter 3.0.3.

Prerequisites

Before you can select a virtual appliance destination, verify that the source virtual machine is powered off.

Procedure

1	On the Destination page, select Virtual Appliance from the drop-down menu.

2	In the Virtual appliance details pane, type the virtual appliance name in the Name text box.

3	Click Browse to select a destination location.

The destination folder can be local or a remote machine shared over the network.

4	(Optional) If you are connected to a remote Converter Standalone server, click Connect as and provide the user credentials to be used when connecting to the destination machine.

You must manually type the path to the destination.

5	Select the Distribution format from the drop-down menu.

You can create virtual appliance packages that contain monolithic compressed .vmdk files only. You can store the resulting files in an .ovf folder or place them in a single .ova tarred file.

6	Click Next to customize the virtual appliance.

You selected to export a virtual machine to a virtual appliance.

What to do next

On the View/Edit Options page, you can make more precise settings to the conversion task.

Related tasks

View Setup Options for a New Virtual Machine