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Kaj
I did the VB because it's in Ubuntu and VB works much better now than past versions. However, VMware seems to have disappeared from Ubuntu, so it's hard to make the images we used to have
I'll see if VB can export to OVF, and then hope VMware can use the VB disk format
Andreas
ok. just had a quick look, the qemu-generated .vmdk i have is 441MB uncompressed, and 79MB after 7z -mx=9.
Kaj
That's better than expected. Maybe indeed a new 7-Zip version
Andreas
That's with 7-Zip 9.20.
Kaj
Do you think the VMDK could be dropped into the configuration file for our old image?
Andreas
No idea, sorry. I was just wondering why I created the image as a .vmdk, but well -- at least that seems to compress quite well.
Kaj
Thanks for checking
Adrian, I could try that with your OVF: use the configuration and replace the VMDK using QEmu. Could you upload it somewhere simple without the VMDK in it?
AdrianS
I can email it
Andreas, what size HD did you have for the VM you had?
Kaj
OK, the email in my account here should work
Andreas
Adrian: 1GB
Kaj
The VB image is 10 GB; that shouldn't be the problem
AdrianS
hard to see why there's such a difference then
sent the ovf conf file
Kaj
Just the file, or the archive without the VMDK?
AdrianS
just the file
there are only three files one of them the checksums
not sure that's needed
let me send that as well

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