Common OVF Tool (COT)

• Introduction
  • Examples
• Installing COT
  • System requirements
  • Download COT
  • Install the COT libraries and script
  • Install helper programs
• Using COT
  • Getting CLI help
  • Verifying and installing helper programs with cot install-helpers
  • 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
  • Add automated unit tests
  • Update documentation
  • Add yourself as a contributor
• Credits
• COT package reference
  • Virtual machine definition modules
  • Command modules
  • Helper library modules
  • User interface modules
• COT.helpers package reference
  • API
  • Exceptions
  • Helper modules

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page