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Andy Arismendi
Asked: 2013-11-14 19:55:18 +0800 CST

Modify VM in OVA

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I have an OVA that contains a vApp with 9 VMs inside. I need to make a change to the drive contents of one of the VMs in the OVA. The OVA takes a very long time to export from vSphere (24 hours). Is there any way to modify the VM in the OVA without having to re-export the whole vApp?

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  1. According to the ovftool documentation , there is no such command.

    Ova is a big "archive" and can be opened with 7zip and extracted. But if you modify the extracted files (ovf) , you'll need to calculate the checksums to be able to deploy.

    I don't know if "repacking" the ova with 7zip is valid

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