Common OVF Tool (COT)

• Introduction
  • Examples
• Installing COT
  • System requirements
  • Mac OS X installation
  • Linux installation
    • Linux installation in detail
• Using COT
  • Getting CLI help
  • Inspecting OVF contents with cot info
  • Updating version information with cot edit-product
  • Adding disks to an OVF with cot add-disk
  • Packaging additional files into an OVF with cot add-file
  • Customizing hardware profiles with cot edit-hardware
  • Customizing OVF environment settings with cot edit-properties
  • Embedding bootstrap configuration with cot inject-config
  • Deploying an OVF to create a VM with cot deploy
    • Creating a VM on VMware vCenter/vSphere with cot deploy esxi
• Contributing to COT
  • Follow coding guidelines
    • Logging level usage
    • Coding style
  • Add automated unit tests
  • Update documentation
  • Add yourself as a contributor
• Credits
• COT package reference
  • Virtual machine definition modules
    • COT.vm_description module
    • COT.vm_factory module
    • COT.vm_context_manager module
    • COT.xml_file module
    • COT.ovf module
  • Command modules
    • COT.submodule module
    • COT.add_disk module
    • COT.add_file module
    • COT.deploy module
    • COT.edit_hardware module
    • COT.edit_product module
    • COT.edit_properties module
    • COT.help module
    • COT.info module
    • COT.inject_config module
  • Helper library modules
    • COT.data_validation module
    • COT.helper_tools module
    • COT.platforms module
  • User interface modules
    • COT.ui_shared module
    • COT.cli module

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• Module Index
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