Hello,

One potential idea will be decompress the ova and have the files, and work
from there with packer.

http://www.packer.io/docs/builders/vmware-vmx.html

you may use packer to take that VM and create a new one

you can use packer with an ISO or with other VM, so in this case you will
feeding the VM, doing nothing, and use it to push it and make it
vagrant-aware

you may use the same process in case you want

- update the kernel
- update the os
- create vagrant user and vagrant keys
- create the box file

Other way will be open the ova in vmware on your desktop, and then using
vagrant package to create a new box from there


>From memory, and theory, you may use other methods like decompress the ova
and do manual stuff, but I will avoid manual hacks until the proper paths
have been exhausted, in this way you will end with a proven and tested
method.. rather than something that just works.

Let me know if you need any help on this,
Alvaro.



On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 3:00 PM, varun umesh <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am planning to use vagrant and vagrant-vcenter plugin to deploy an OVA
> file in vCenter. I am unable to figure out a method to convert the .ova
> file to .box format [once i get the .box format file, i would be using it
> as an input to the vmware-vagrant plugin and deploy it on vCenter]. Could
> anybody let me know how i could convert the .OVA file to .box file format?
> Are there any tools available to do this? Please suggest me any other
> alternative methods that are available.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> -varun
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