How to import only OS not complete data of VM in OVF fortmat?

[maheshpittala17]

I have installed OS on HDD which is the size of 100 GB and home(mounted) in SSD which is having 200 GB of size, I want only OS image.

[diegodco31 · Accepted solution]

Hi

I would use the VMware Standalone Converter where you do have a choice of which drives to clone.

[vijayku]

OVF's are supposed to be exact replicas of original VM. I don't think there is a way to exclude certain disks while exporting to OVF.

You can detach the second disk, export the ovf and attach the disk again or you can use the Standalone Converter as mentioned by diegodco31to perform a V2V conversion without the second disk and export OVF from converted VM.

[maheshpittala17]

Seems both ways we can import

1) remove hard disk and import

2) with VMware Standalone Converter

Thanks