.OVA File

.ova is Open Virtual Appliance

Features Description
File Extension .ova
Format Binary
Created by VMware
Category Data

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What is an .OVA file?

The ova file extension is associated with Open Virtual Machine Format.

Compared to the OVF file format, OVA format contains all virtual machine files and ovf files compressed into one single ova archive file instead of many files in a folder. The file is basically a TAR archive.

For more information check the ovf file extension.

Files with ova file extension can be usually encountered as virtual disk images saved in Open Virtual Machine format. Supported in almost every virtualization software.


How to open:

You can open the *.ova files in VMware Workstation, or VirtualBox to open *.ova Open Virtual Machine Format files.

How to convert:

VirtualBox and other virtualization tools are usually capable of transformation of OVA archives to some alternative format.

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