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Debizzle_184925
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Mar 06, 2015

BIG-IP in VirtualBox

Hey I wondering have any of you guys and girls tried converting the ova. file to the .ovf using the ovf tool from VMware then running the ovf through virtualbox?   I have not tried to see if this ...
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Hamish
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Mar 06, 2015

Don't be confused.

 

I've never tried virtualbox, but as long as virtualbox is capable of emulating an x86_64 server with something like e1000 ethernet cards, you can just grab the installable ISO image (DVD image - from the same place as you got the OVA - i.e. tech.f5.com downloads) and boot the virtualbox from that ISO image and do a BigIP install.

 

I find it's generally easier and usually quicker than trying to translate the VMWare appliance images to another format.

 

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