It's a zip file actually, But i once tried to manually zip the files and rename the archive file to .ova, and the resulting file was not accepted by the vSphere client.
So there is probably more to it, and ovftool is safer to use.
It's a zip file actually, But i once tried to manually zip the files and rename the archive file to .ova, and the resulting file was not accepted by the vSphere client.
So there is probably more to it, and ovftool is safer to use.