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Importing and exporting appliances
You can import and export VMs as an appliance package, which is a collection of one or more VMs, as well
as disk images, using the XenServer OVF Appliance Wizard in XenCenter.
Important:
The XenServer OVF Appliance Wizard is experimental at this time. Use at your own risk.
When you export VMs in an appliance, they are exported as the configuration data along with the virtual
hard disks of with each VM. When the appliance is exported, an OVF file is created that explains how to the
wizard should reassemble the VMs in the package. The OVF file describes the way these virtual hard disks
join together to form a VM and the resource settings (CPU, memory, disk space) associated with that VM.
When you import the appliance, the wizard reads the OVF file to determine the resource requirements for
the VMs in the appliance and what virtual disks are associated with each VM and then reconstitutes them.
Tip:
To see the VMs associated with an imported appliance in XenCenter, display the Folder view.
XenServer OVF Appliance Wizard
The XenServer OVF Appliance Wizard comprises three wizards: Appliance Export, Appliance Import,
and Disk Image Import.