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Installing OVF Tool in VMware Fusion 3.1

Submitted by daemonchild on Wed, 2010-06-02 - 21:09
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I have a template virtual machine created in Fusion that I'd like to share with a colleague. If this was an ESX virtual machine, I'd probably export it as an OVF file. In Fusion, it has been a tricky thing to do. Until now. Version 3.1 includes the OVF Tool if you know now to install it.

You need to download the 'Full' version of the installed (450MB).
Then you need to customise the install and choose the OVF tool installer:

Install OVF Tool

(While you're there, why not install the MacFUSE application that will allow you to read NTFS and from within Mac OSX?).

The ovftool binary file is placed in /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/ovftool. You are supposed to run the installer script (install.sh) to place the appropriate files throughout your Mac's filesystem. The script seems to have some flaws however, so I just did it manually:

Toms-MacBook-Pro:ovftool tom$ pwd
/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/ovftool
Toms-MacBook-Pro:ovftool tom$ sudo mkdir /usr/local/bin/ovftool1.0
Toms-MacBook-Pro:ovftool tom$ sudo cp -R * /usr/local/bin/ovftool1.0
Toms-MacBook-Pro:ovftool tom$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/ovftool1.0/ovftool /usr/local/bin/ovftool

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