VMware OVF Tool / OVA export-import
Broadcom (VMware)
Free
Cold - full outage for the whole copy
Agentless
Smb estates
Workload V2V
What it is good at
Scriptable CLI export/import in the open OVF/OVA format - the universal escape hatch that almost every hypervisor can read.
Where it falls down
Cold only, one VM at a time, and large OVAs are slow. Guest drivers still have to be fixed after import.
Capabilities
- API / CLI automation
Cost and licensing
- Cost category
- Free — No licence cost from the vendor.
- Indicative price
- No licence cost
- Licence model
- Free developer tool download.
- How to license it
- Download from the Broadcom developer portal with a free account. No key.
- Lifecycle
- Current
- Vendor page
- https://developer.broadcom.com/tools/open-virtualization-format-ovf-tool/latest
Pricing and licensing last reviewed 2026-09-18. Indicative only - confirm with the vendor.
Supported sources
- VMware vSphere / ESXi (vCenter)
- VMware Workstation / Fusion / Player
- Oracle VirtualBox
Supported targets
- VMware vSphere / ESXi (vCenter)
- VMware Workstation / Fusion / Player
- Proxmox VE
- Nutanix AHV (Prism)
- XCP-ng + Xen Orchestra
- OpenStack (Nova / KVM)
- Oracle VirtualBox
- Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager / Oracle VM