How-to and tips

OVA conversion

If your Hypervisor doesn’t support OVA imports natively, it must be converted to a supported format.

For Microsoft Hyper-V and the VHD format, this can be done using Oracle VirtualBox using the following commands:

tar -xvf <OVA filename> *.vmdk
# Windows
VBoxManage.exe clonehd --format vhd "<filename>.vmdk" "<filename>.vhd"
# OS X / Linux
VBoxManage clonehd --format vhd "<filename>.vmdk" "<filename>.vhd"

This can also be done Using PowerShell (without VirtualBox):

• https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/timomta/2015/06/11/how-to-convert-a-vmware-vmdk-to-hyper-v-vhd/