VMware OVF Tool is a command line utility that supports importing and exporting of OVF packages.
OVF enables efficient, flexible, and secure distribution of enterprise software, facilitating the mobility of virtual machines and giving customers vendor and platform independence.
With OVF, customers’ experience with virtualization is greatly enhanced, with more portability, platform independence, verification, signing, versioning, and licensing terms. OVF lets you:
-Improve your user experience with streamlined installations
-Offer customers virtualization platform independence and flexiblity
-Create complex pre-configured multi-tiered services more easily
-Efficiently deliver enterprise software through portable virtual machines
-Offer platform-specific enhancements and easier adoption of advances in virtualization through extensibility