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VMware ovftool as Development Tool: Good and Bad Parts

By Steve Jin | Published: October 30, 2015

If you want to export a virtual appliance for internal deployment, it’s quite easy. The vSphere Web Client or ovftool command line can take care of this easily. But it’s a different story to build a virtual appliance based software product, which should not only make it work, but also include product information.

Here are some information I learned and decisions I made from packaging an OVF product recently. Hope it would be useful for you. You can also check another post on how to compact the virtual disk for smallest OVA or VMDK.  Read more...

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