Written by Landis Arnold on 14 March 2021. Open Source Notations

VMWARE Ovftool now has Open-vm-tools project

OVF Tool as now there is Open-VM-Tools

https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools#what-is-the-open-vm-tools-project

Removed from other notations this abould how to use
OVF Tool not currently installing 3-2021

This was a critical part of the build path using TKLDEV and noted in a separate article here earlier. May work still for old formulations but likely flotsam now.

OVF tool does not load this way any more to my current experience (3-13-2021)

Get VMWare's OVF Tool working

1. 1. Login to VmWare
    - IE: my.vmware.com
    1. Download the tool to your computer
      1. https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/details?downloadGroup=OVFTOOL430&productId=742
      2. This link above is for version 4.30 of OVFTOOL (2019). You may want a newer version which you can get to at:
        
        https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/ovf/
        
        Then choose your release and choose the related link (hard to see on the page) https://code.vmware.com/tool/ovf
    2. Login via FileZilla to your TKLDEV appliance
      1. Ideally you will have a "downloads" or similar folder for files
        upload your OVF Bundle File to that directory.
    3. In Shell, be sure the file has chroot 755 permissions
      chmod 755 VMware-ovftool-(VERSION.and.control.name).bundle
    4. Run the install code on your TKLDEV server inside SSH (use the correct syntax)
      ./VMware-ovftool-(VERSION.and.control.name).bundle
    5. Run the Program
    6. Go through multiple pages of "licensing code" (Accept All)
      1. accept the Terms at the very bottom of the licensing agreement
    7. Then Create a Config Folder and Copy the Contents as outlined here:
    8. https://github.com/turnkeylinux-apps/tkldev/blob/master/docs/advanced/optimized-builds.rst
      Configuration & Setup
    1. 1. cd buildtasks/ mkdir config cp config.example/* config/.
      2. run bin/vm-setup