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1 how-tosUpdated 4 Nov 2026
Export a virtual machine from VMware as OVF or OVA

At the end you will have a powered-off copy of the VM as an OVF package (.ovf, .vmdk and .mf files) or a single .ova file on your workstation or file share, ready to import into another hypervisor or cloud.

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