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A. Introduction to OVA and creating CentOS OVA using Packer
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This is part A of creating OVA using Packer series. A virtual appliance is a virtual machine image that is ready to be run on a hypervisor.
OVA(Open Virtualization Appliance) is a tar archive of OVF files meant for single-file distribution.
In this tutorial, we will just use builders and variables.
Since we defined the builder type as VirtualBox, you can import it in VirtualBox and then play with it.
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