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Yes, you can convert the .vmx file in Krugle Basic into a .ovf file for VMware ESX Server. You can use VMware OVF Tool to convert the file if you wish to run Krugle Basic on a VMware ESX Server.
Get VMware OVF Tool:
http://www.vmware.com/downloads/login.do
(You will need to register an account with VMware)
These are steps you can follow to create a .ovf file from the Krugle Basic .vmx file. (Windows Only)
- Download and Install OVF Tool
- Place OVF Tool in the root directory for easy access
- There is some set up for the OVF Tool (Please refer to ovfTool.pdf)
- Create a ovf folder in root directory
- Create a "krugle" folder in root directory
- Take the Krugle Basic Contents of the uncompressed file and move them to the ovf folder you created in root directory
- Open command prompt in Windows
- Locate the ovf tool directory you created
- In the folder of the ovf tool, run this command: ovftool c:\ovf\krugle_basic_3.0.1.vmx c:\krugle\krugle_basic_3.1.2.ovf
- You should see the OVF Tool start to export the file to a .ovf file (this could take up to 30 min depending on host machine)
- Once you see the "Export completed successfully!" the export is done
- You then just need to launch your VMware ESX Infrastructure Client
- Click Import a Virtual Appliance
- Browse to krugle_basic_3.1.2.ovf and click next
- This process could take time to complete depending on your ESX Server
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Inappropriate?Yes, you can convert the .vmx file in Krugle Basic into a .ovf file for VMware ESX Server. You can use VMware OVF Tool to convert the file if you wish to run Krugle Basic on a VMware ESX Server.
Get VMware OVF Tool:
http://www.vmware.com/downloads/login.do
(You will need to register an account with VMware)
These are steps you can follow to create a .ovf file from the Krugle Basic .vmx file. (Windows Only)
- Download and Install OVF Tool
- Place OVF Tool in the root directory for easy access
- There is some set up for the OVF Tool (Please refer to ovfTool.pdf)
- Create a ovf folder in root directory
- Create a "krugle" folder in root directory
- Take the Krugle Basic Contents of the uncompressed file and move them to the ovf folder you created in root directory
- Open command prompt in Windows
- Locate the ovf tool directory you created
- In the folder of the ovf tool, run this command: ovftool c:\ovf\krugle_basic_3.0.1.vmx c:\krugle\krugle_basic_3.1.2.ovf
- You should see the OVF Tool start to export the file to a .ovf file (this could take up to 30 min depending on host machine)
- Once you see the "Export completed successfully!" the export is done
- You then just need to launch your VMware ESX Infrastructure Client
- Click Import a Virtual Appliance
- Browse to krugle_basic_3.1.2.ovf and click next
- This process could take time to complete depending on your ESX Server
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Inappropriate?This is all I can get it to do:
Opening VMX source: krugle_basic_3.1.2.vmx
Error: Failed to open disk: krugle_basic_3.1.2.vmdk
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?Are you trying to run this on a VMware ESX Server? Or on the VMware Client? You will need to create a .ovf file if you want to run this on a VMware ESX Server.
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Inappropriate?Correct, trying to convert the VMX to OVF using ovftool gives me an error that it cannot open the .vmdk. The files are there, I guess ovftool just doesn't like or can't find the vmdk for some reason.
Sorry I didn't specify that error is the output of ovftool. -
Inappropriate?Please be sure to put all the contents of the folder that reside with the .vmx file in the same folder before you run the ovf tool.
Files that should be in the ovf folder that is being converted:
some_name.vmx (krugle_basic_3.1.2.vmx)
some_name.vmdk (krugle_basic_3.1.2.vmdk)
some_name.vmdk (swap-4G.vmdk)
md5sum.txt
Please confirm you command line as well:
ovftool c:\ovf\name_of_file.vmx c:\krugle\name_it_what_you_want.ovf -
Inappropriate?Yup that is all correct and that's how I'm doing it. I'm pretty stumped, I'm very well versed in ESX Server and everything but for whatever reason it doesn't think the vmdk file exists. I looked at the vmx file config and it all looks OK to me. Very weird.
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Inappropriate?If you would like I could upload the .ovf file and it's contents to the web for download but it's rather large (750MB). Please let me know if this would help.
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Inappropriate?Sorry I haven't been back in a while, got busy! But yes that would probably help a lot. Let me know if that's possible.
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Inappropriate?Ok, I will see if I can load this for you so that you can download the .ovf file directly. Can you send an email to support@aragoncg.com so that we can send you a direct link. Hopefully this resolves your issues.
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Inappropriate?I was able to get this to work by using VMWare Workstation 7 Import/Export, choosing the vmx as the source and our ESX cluster as the target. It complains that it can't configure the source VM, but this is because VMWare Converter does not "officially" support Linux which just means you can't edit the source VM before conversion.
Once it was exported, it fired up in ESX just fine.
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Inappropriate?Ugh... that seems like too much work considering ESX is the most common VM product on the market.
I’m annoyed
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Inappropriate?We created a VMware image for VMware workstation or the VMware free player since Krugle Basic is more for demo purposes and evaluation. We do provide a ESX Server version and also a other Virtual Services as well. Generally this is provided for enterprise deployments. If you need either please feel free to contact sales@aragoncg.com or support@aragoncg.com.
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