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1	<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
2	<!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
3	<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="ovf-import-appliance">
4	<title>Importing an Appliance in OVF Format</title>
5
6	<body>
7	<p>
8	The following steps show how to import an appliance in OVF
9	format.
10	</p>
11	<ol>
12	<li>
13	<p>
14	Double-click on the OVF or OVA file.
15	</p>
16	<p>
17	Oracle VM VirtualBox creates file type associations automatically
18	for any OVF and OVA files on your host OS.
19	</p>
20	<p>
21	The <b outputclass="bold">Appliance Settings</b> page
22	of the <b outputclass="bold">Import Virtual
23	Appliance</b> wizard is shown.
24	</p>
25	<fig id="fig-import-appliance">
26	<title>Import Virtual Appliance Wizard: Appliance Settings</title>
27	<image href="images/ovf-import.png" placement="break"/>
28	</fig>
29	</li>
30	<li>
31	<p>
32	The <b outputclass="bold">Appliance Settings</b> page
33	shows the VMs described in the OVF or OVA file and enables
34	you to change the VM settings.
35	</p>
36	<p>
37	By default, membership of VM groups is preserved on import
38	for VMs that were initially exported from Oracle VM VirtualBox.
39	You can change this behavior by using the
40	<b outputclass="bold">Primary Group</b> setting for
41	the VM.
42	</p>
43	<p>
44	The following global settings apply to all of the VMs that
45	you import:
46	</p>
47	<ul>
48	<li>
49	<p><b outputclass="bold">Base Folder:</b> Specifies
50	the directory on the host in which to store the imported
51	VMs.
52	</p>
53	<p>
54	If an appliance has multiple VMs, you can specify a
55	different directory for each VM by editing the
56	<b outputclass="bold">Base Folder</b> setting for
57	the VM.
58	</p>
59	</li>
60	<li>
61	<p><b outputclass="bold">MAC Address Policy:</b>
62	Reinitializes the MAC addresses of network cards in your
63	VMs prior to import, by default. You can override the
64	default behavior and preserve the MAC addresses on
65	import.
66	</p>
67	</li>
68	<li>
69	<p><b outputclass="bold">Import Hard Drives as
70	VDI:</b> Imports hard drives in the VDI format
71	rather than in the default VMDK format.
72	</p>
73	</li>
74	</ul>
75	</li>
76	<li>
77	<p>
78	Click <b outputclass="bold">Finish</b> to import the
79	appliance.
80	</p>
81	<p>
82	Oracle VM VirtualBox copies the disk images and creates local VMs
83	with the settings described on the
84	<b outputclass="bold">Appliance Settings</b> page.
85	The imported VMs are shown in the list of VMs in VirtualBox
86	Manager.
87	</p>
88	<p>
89	Because disk images are large, the VMDK images that are
90	included with virtual appliances are shipped in a compressed
91	format that cannot be used directly by VMs. So, the images
92	are first unpacked and copied, which might take several
93	minutes.
94	</p>
95	</li>
96	</ol>
97	<p>
98	You can use the <userinput>VBoxManage import</userinput> command to
99	import an appliance. See <xref href="man_VBoxManage-import.dita#vboxmanage-import"/>.
100	</p>
101	</body>
102
103	</topic>

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