This Packer post processor uses the VMware ovftool binaries to export generated VMware vmx files to ova/ovf formats.

1. Packer 0.7.5
2. Refer to Developing Packer to install the software required to compile this code.

• If you downloaded and installed the Packer binaries you can stop after installing Gox.

1. VMware OVFTool insalled and in your search path.

1. Run the following:

$ go get github.com/daxgames/packer-post-procesror-ovaexport
$ go install github.com/daxgames/packer-post-processor-ovaexport

Export type is determined by the target filename extension specified in the Packer template file. As shown below with default values:

  {
    "type": "ovaexport",
    "target": "ova/vmware/rhel-6.6-chef12.0.3.ova",
    "disk_mode": "thick",
    "remove_floppy": "false",
    "remove_optical_drive": "false",
    "remove_ethernet": "false",
    "compress": 9,
    "only": ["vmware-iso"]
  }

Thanks to Mitchell Hashimoto, and others, for Packer and the vsphere post processor on which this code is based.

Thanks to Ian McCracken who wrote packer-post-processor-ovftool. I could not get it to work with the latest Packer 0.7.5 but it inspired me to cobble this together instead.