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I have a vmware esxi server, with various vm's. I want to clone one of the vm's so I can run it locally on my macbook (either using Paralells or vmware player)

Is this possible?

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Yes, using vsphere client you can choose File->Export->Export OVF Template fill in the form and export the files to a local filesystem. This exported appliance should then load into your other virtualisation tools without any really issues. I've done this with CentOS6 (exported) and loaded it into VirtualBox.

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Thanks. I also found you can use the ESXI disk browser and just copy(download) the raw vmware files. You can then point parallels or vmware server to these and migrate the VM – carpii Jan 4 at 16:03
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