KVM: Importing an OVA appliance
Gregg
You may or may not be aware if it, but an OVA file is just a tar archive containing an .ovf and a .vmdk files, respectively the VM configuration and disk.
$ ls *.ovaHTAOE.ova$ tar tf HTAOE.ovaHTAOE.ovfHTAOE-disk001.vmdkHTAOE.mf
So, you can simply extract the files:
$ tar xvf HTAOE.ova
And convert to a format appropriate for QEMU/KVM:
List the available formats
$ qemu-img -h | tail -n4Supported formats: blkdebug blklogwrites blkverify bochs cloop compress copy-before-write copy-on-read dmg file ftp ftps host_cdrom host_device http https luks nbd null-aio null-co nvme parallels preallocate qcow qcow2 qed quorum raw replication ssh throttle vdi vhdx vmdk vpc vvfatSee <https://qemu.org/contribute/report-a-bug> for how to report bugs.More information on the QEMU project at <https://qemu.org>.
Do the actual conversion (I chose qcow2 here)
$ qemu-img convert -O qcow2 HTAOE.vmdk HTAOE.qcow2
Have a look at the .ovf too, for information on expected machine configuration, resources (eg. memory and cpu), etc.
After the conversion, simply create a new VM and make it use the newly created disk as the primary disk.