I recently ran into an issue with files with .ovf extension. The issue
is that VMware Workstation will not import files that end in .ovf. A
file that ends in .ovf shows up as follows of Fedora 34:
file *.ovf returns
XML 1.0 document, ASCII text
What's interesting is that if you have VirtualBox installed and then try
to open a .ovf file with VMware workstation it works because according
to the VirtualBox documentation:
Oracle VM VirtualBox creates file type associations automatically for
any OVF and OVA files on your host OS.
In fact if I run caja and click my way to the OVF file, right click on
the file and look at the properties I get:
Type: Open Virtualization Format (application/x-virtualbox-ovf)
If I don't have VirtualBox installed I get
Type: XML document (application/xml)
So who should setup the file association for .ovf files? How do I go
about changing the association for .ovf files from XML document to
something else so that I can associate it with VMware Workstation?
Any help is appreciated.
I have reported this issue to VMware also.
Thanks,
Paolo
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