RUNNING OVF VMWARE HOW TO
RUNNING OVF VMWARE INSTALL

I've had success with this technique using VMware ESX with only vncviewer installed locally no VMware tools other than ovftool used to upload the ovf to ESX.

Note that the command line is visible for anyone who logs in ( cat /proc/cmdline), so you should change the grub configuration after first boot (see below) and reboot.

and will allow you log in with the credentials provided. This will print everything out to tty0, set the ubuntu password to something known, and force the 'uncloud' initialization. Grub has a default 5 seconds timeout, so you should be able to edit the boot parameters on the first boot to include: init=/usr/lib/cloud-init/uncloud-init ubuntu-pass=ubuntu ds=nocloud-net console=tty0 If you do convert the image to vmdk using qemu-img and clean up the OVF as described, you can in fact boot it up into grub without further ado. It seems the Ubuntu Cloud Images now contain a boot sector (something I can't recall they did earlier). This answer relates to precise pangolin, and describes a way to solve this problem without resorting to a CD image (which I couldn't get to work using VMware ESX). Unfortunately I can't log in as 'ubuntu' at the prompt because the OVF properties haven't been provided to cloud-init. Remove all the elements because vmplayer does not recognise them.Д¬onfigure the VirtualHardwareSection section to set CPU and RAM to taste.Д®ither run the OVF in vmplayer, or convert to vmx and run the vmx: ovftools custom.ovf mymachine.vmx

RUNNING OVF VMWARE INSTALL

Install VMWare Player 4.0.4, using the vmware workstation 8.0.2 / player 4.0.2 fix for linux 3.2+ patch to get around the compilation failure for virtual ethernet module.Дownload precise-server-cloudimg-amd64.ovf, and also the precise-server-cloudimg-amd64.img file (compressed QCOW2 format, 220MB)Д¬onvert the image from QCOW2 to VMDK: qemu-img convert -O vmdk precise-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img disk.vmdkД®dit the OVF element to change the ovf:href and ovf:size to match the output of qemu-img: Д®dit the element to set sparse VMDK format and desired capacity in bytes (8GB here):

RUNNING OVF VMWARE HOW TO

I just need to know how to set the OVF properties in a way that VMWare understands in order to pass parameters to cloud-init. I want to run an Ubuntu cloud image on on VMWare.

Running ovf vmware