Converting an OVA from ESXi to a BOX?

[Ray Bond]

I have a Windows 7 64bit VM on an ESXi / vSphere server.

I exported the VM using ovftool to Windows7.ova.

Is it possible to use vagrant / packer to convert the OVA file to a BOX file that is compatible with the vagrant-vsphere plugin?

Thanks,
R

[Ray Bond]

I'm using ovftool to export the VM from the ESXi server to an OVA file so I guess my real question is how can I convert an OVA file to a BOX file?

The only way I can see is by verifying that the OVA is compatible with virtualbox, then deploy it using vagrant / packer, and then finally export it to a BOX file? Is there an easier way?

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello

The Vagrant-vsphere doesn't require any box file , it will clone a VM
or template in the vSphere server

I will suggest go to the github repo of the plugin, and read the instructions.

Thanks
Alvaro.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Ray Bond <ront...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a Windows 7 64bit VM on an ESXi / vSphere server.
>
> I exported the VM using ovftool to Windows7.ova.
>
> Is it possible to use vagrant / packer to convert the OVA file to a BOX file
> that is compatible with the vagrant-vsphere plugin?
>
>
> Thanks,
> R
>

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[Ray Bond]

Hi Alvaro, apologies for the late response.

The issue with vagrant-vsphere is that it doesn't support unmanaged ESX servers. We do not have vCenter at my company but we have many licensed and unlicensed ESX servers to manage our VMs.

I've been recently playing with vagrant-vsphere and vagrant-esx plugins but having a lot of trouble. We use Windows VMs on ESX 6.0 and using the vagrant-esx plugin, I'm having many SSH (and random commandline) issues. Using mobassh at the moment to ssh to windows.

Any advice?

Thanks,

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello Ray!

I think you should be able to use that plugin.

vSphere stand for the protocol to talk to the ESXi

The paid product is vCentre.

I think the vSphere agent can manage both just fine.

Can you check this web page to see if apply?

http://dor.ky/using-vmware-vsphereesxi-as-a-provider-for-vagrant/

Thanks
Alvaro.

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