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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="ovf-import-appliance">
<title>Importing an Appliance in OVF Format</title>
<body>
<p>The following steps show how to import an appliance in OVF format. </p>
<ol>
<li>
<p>Double-click the OVF or OVA file. </p>
<p><ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> creates file type associations automatically for any
OVF and OVA files on your host OS. </p>
<p>The <b outputclass="bold">Appliance Settings</b> page of the <b outputclass="bold">Import Virtual
Appliance</b> wizard is shown. This page shows the VMs described in the OVF or OVA file and enables you to
change the VM settings. </p>
</li>
<li>
<p>By default, membership of VM groups is preserved on import for VMs that were initially exported from <ph
conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>. You can change this behavior by using the <b
outputclass="bold">Primary Group</b> setting for the VM. </p>
<p>The following global settings apply to all of the VMs that you import: </p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><b outputclass="bold">Base Folder:</b> Specifies
the directory on the host in which to store the imported
VMs.
</p>
<p>If an appliance has multiple VMs, you can specify a different directory for each VM by editing the <b
outputclass="bold">Base Folder</b> setting for the VM. </p>
</li>
<li>
<p><b outputclass="bold">MAC Address Policy:</b>
Reinitializes the MAC addresses of network cards in your
VMs prior to import, by default. You can override the
default behavior and preserve the MAC addresses on
import.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><b outputclass="bold">Import Hard Drives as
VDI:</b> Imports hard drives in the VDI format
rather than in the default VMDK format.
</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Click <b outputclass="bold">Finish</b> to import the appliance. </p>
<p><ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> copies the disk images and creates local VMs with the
settings described on the <b outputclass="bold">Appliance Settings</b> page. The imported VMs are shown in the
list of VMs in VirtualBox Manager. </p>
<p>Because disk images are large, the VMDK images that are included with virtual appliances are shipped in a
compressed format that cannot be used directly by VMs. So, the images are first unpacked and copied, which
might take several minutes. </p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>You can use the <userinput>VBoxManage import</userinput> command to import an appliance. See <xref
href="vboxmanage-import.dita"/>. </p>
</body>
</topic>
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