Procedure B.1. Creating an OVF Archive That is Compatible with the Image Uploader

1. Use the Manager to create an empty export domain. An empty export domain makes it easy to see which directory contains your virtual machine.
2. Export your virtual machine to the empty export domain you just created.
3. Log in to the storage server that serves as the export domain, find the root of the NFS share and change to the subdirectory under that mount point. You started with a new export domain, there is only one directory under the exported directory. It contains the images/ and master/ directories.
4. Run the tar -zcvf my.ovf images/ master/ command to create the tar/gzip ovf archive.
5. Anyone you give the resulting ovf file to (in this example, called my.ovf) can import it to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager using the engine-image-uploader command.