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OVA read only
Hi
I'm confused
when I download a VM in OVA format does read only mean I cannot write anything on disk after I imported the OVA?
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Reply 1It just means that the original VMDK disk image is read-only
Reply 2It just means that the original VMDK disk image (inside the OVA) is read-only. AFAIK that is the default for how disk images within OVAs should always be. When a new VM is created from an OVA, a new (read/write) VMDK disk image is created from the read only one within the OVA.
This is in contrast to our VMDK build, which includes a read/write VMDK file which you can attach straight to a VM and use as is. If you wish to create more vanilla VMs from a VMDK build, you need a clean VMDK disk image (i.e. extract again from the original VMDK zip file).
I hope that makes more sense?
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