import .ovf vm into vmware fusion on mac?

You'll need to start with the OVF tool as you mentioned.

It can be found here:

http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/server/vsphere/automationtools/ovf

or here:

http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/ovf/

You'll have to have a VMware.com account to download it, and you will be given different binaries to choose from (Windows/Mac/etc).

Once you have downloaded/installed the OVF Tool, you will use it to convert the OVF.  On my MBP w/Lion, it installed to /opt/vmware/ovftool

You will use the OVF Tool from a Terminal window.  Here is the command to see the examples of how to use it:

/opt/vmware/ovftool/ovftool --help examples

From the examples that are detailed, you should see an OVF to vmx command example.

So, if your OVF and additional files are located on your desktop (with the account WBGaynor) the command would look something like this (if you want the destination VM on your Desktop in a new folder):

/opt/vmware/ovftool/ovftool -tt=vmx /Users/WBGaynor/Desktop/VMNAME.ovf /Users/WBGaynor/Desktop/VMNAME/

The command /opt/vmware/ovftool/ovftool --help should point you in the right direction.

Jase,

Thanks for the reply. Interesting after installing, running install.sh as root, /opt/vmware/ovftool is empty, no ovftool in it. Hum ...

Plus the install.sh script seems to have created an odd symbolic link from /usr/bin with double '//' in it:

bash-3.2$ pwd

/usr/bin

bash-3.2$ ls -l ovftool

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  28 Jul  6 11:46 ovftool -> /opt/vmware/ovftool//ovftool

So with some trail and error and examining the script ovftool, I just ran ovftool out of the Applications directory where the package had place it and OK a .vmwarevm directory was created under the directory where the original .ovf, .vmdk, and .mf reside.

Contents are a .vmdk. .vmsd. and .vmx.

But Fusion is not letting me import, the .vmarevm directory is "grayed out" on attempting to import it. The directory is label as a virtual machine through the MAC Finder app.

I must still be missing something in the process. I did try chmod 777 the .vmwarevm directory and its contents.

Any suggested of where I'm missing the link?

Thanks,

bg

Well, after double clicking the vm in Finder, the vm was loaded into Fusion and I was able to bring it up. Hum ... not much of a procedure, bit like a monkey at a keyboard, but it worked.

Thanks,

bg

Very interesting.

I may have an older version of the OVF Tool... I've had it on the Mac for a while.

Good to know that you got it working.

There should be an "ovftool" binary somewhere on your file system... I'd check out Finder/Spotlight for it, just in the case that you have the need to use it at a later time.

Cheers,

Jase