bacongravy/macinbox

Support for VirtualBox (OVF) box format

mnuthan1 opened this issue · 4 comments

mnuthan1 commented

how can I generate OVF format for virtualbox using macinbox.

bacongravy commented

That's a great question! I am not a VirtualBox user, so I don't know the answer offhand.

Some quick googling suggests that it is possible to convert a vmx and vmdk (VMware machine definition and disk image) into an OVF/OVA, so one approach would be create the VMware vagrant box, and then try converting the embedded vmx/vmdk.

Alternatively, this project might be what you're looking for: https://github.com/geerlingguy/macos-virtualbox-vm

bacongravy commented

Here's another approach: https://github.com/AlexanderWillner/runMacOSinVirtualBox

I suspect one could add VirtualBox support to macinbox by following a similar pattern, along with the VBoxManage convertfromraw command for creating the VDI.

bacongravy commented

I've add this feature in 8abf1ec. It will appear in a forthcoming 3.1 release.

bacongravy commented

v3.1.0 has been released. After updating, you can use this feature like so:

macinbox --box-format virtualbox