A quick reminder about how to prepare a VMWare (OVF) export to Openstack

reminder-about-ova.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Let's assume you have an OVF image exported from VMWare
# (the *.ovf descriptor, *.vmdk, *.mf and *.nvram files)
# that you want to deploy on Openstack.

# An OVA file is a TAR archive that wraps all this file structure.
BASE_NAME="sample"
tar -cf "${BASE_NAME}.ova" "${BASE_NAME}.ovf" "${BASE_NAME}.mf" "${BASE_NAME}-1.vmdk"

# Verify the list of files
tar -tvf "${BASE_NAME}.ova"

# Upload the image on Openstack.
# See https://docs.openstack.org/python-openstackclient/latest/cli/command-objects/image.html#image-create
openstack image create \
  --disk-format vmdk \
  --container-format ova \
  --private \
  --file "${BASE_NAME}" \
  "your-image-name"