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OVA file? RaspberryPi-Development-VM-v0.8.ova

Former Member over 13 years ago

Hi,

I've just downloaded the RaspberryPi Development VM and discovered its a ova file.

Can someone tell me how to use it? I'm used to using VMware ESXi but have never come across this file extension.

Thanks

Neil

bodgy over 13 years ago

I'm mainly a VirtualBox user, but OVA files are supported by VMWare by using a converter program from VMWare (theoretically OVA files are supposed to be supported by Virtual Machines but in reality...... I believe you need to use VMWare format converter 4.0.0 .
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fustini over 13 years ago

Hi Neil,

I wrote up the steps I went through here awhile back: Re: Trying out the Raspberry Pi Developer VM v0.8. That VM was created by Russell Davis who is on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/#!/ukscone

There was also another smaller VM which I used later on which I posted about in this thread: Re: Play MAME on a virtual Raspberry Pi

Cheers,
Drew
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Former Member over 13 years ago

Hi

An OVA file can be imported into ESXi using the menu Option "File==>Deploy OVF Template".

AN OVA file is an Open Virtualisation Archive.

Nick.
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