Select A Virtual Appliance Source; You Can Convert A Virtual Appliance To A Vmware Infrastructure Virtual Machine Or A Standalone Virtual Machine, Such As Workstation - VMware VCENTER CONVERTER EN-000158-02 User Manual

"Supported Source Types,"
Procedure
1 On the Specify Source page, select Backup image or Third-party virtual machine from the Select source
type drop-down menu.
2 Browse for the source virtual machine or image.
3 (Optional) To view information about the selected source, click View source details.
4 Click Next to proceed to the Specify Destination page.
What to do next
You can now select the destination for your new virtual machine.

Select a Virtual Appliance Source

You can convert a virtual appliance to a VMware Infrastructure virtual machine or a standalone virtual
machine, such as Workstation 6.x.
The data you can view on the Appliance details page depends on the OVF version of the source you selected.
Only OVF 1.0 sources can contain deployment configurations. If OVF 0.9 and OVF 1.0 source virtual appliances
do not contain deployment configurations, you can only view the virtual appliance details.
For OVF 1.0 sources that contain deployment configurations, you can also select the product configuration.
Selecting a different product configuration might affect the hardware settings and properties default values
of the target virtual machine created to run on a vCenter Server 4.0 or a Workstation destination.
Prerequisites
Converter Standalone supports, as sources, OVF 0.9 and OVF 1.0 virtual appliances that contain one virtual
machine. Virtual appliances that contain multiple virtual machines are not supported.
If you select an OVF 1.0 source and it contains at least one required product with properties, you can only
convert it to a vCenter Server 4.0 destination. ESX 4.0 is not supported as a destination for OVF 1.0 sources that
contain required products with properties. If the source OVF does not contain any required properties, you
can select an ESX 4.0 hosted destination as well.
Procedure
1 On the Specify Source page, select Virtual appliance from the Select source type drop-down menu.
2 Complete the Choose virtual appliance pane.
a To convert a virtual appliance from your hard drive or a network location, select File System from the
Location drop-down menu and browse for your virtual appliance.
b To convert a virtual appliance uploaded on a Web server, select URL from the Location drop-down
menu and enter the URL in the Enter the web location field.
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on page 21 contains supported third-party file types and supported versions.
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