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I have an OVA that contains a vApp with 9 VMs inside. I need to make a change to the drive contents of one of the VMs in the OVA. The OVA takes a very long time to export from vSphere (24 hours). Is there any way to modify the VM in the OVA without having to re-export the whole vApp?

Andy Arismendi
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You can possibly untar and tar back with no issues.

This worked for me: https://gist.github.com/goodjob1114/9ededff0de32c1119cf7

Luca Mattia Ferrari
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According to the ovftool documentation , there is no such command.

Ova is a big "archive" and can be opened with 7zip and extracted. But if you modify the extracted files (ovf) , you'll need to calculate the checksums to be able to deploy.

I don't know if "repacking" the ova with 7zip is valid

Max
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