OVA file extension - Open Virtual Machine Format single archive
What is ova file? How to open ova files?
File type specification:
File extension ova is associated with Open Virtual Machine Format.
Compared to the OVF file format, OVA format contains all virtual machine files and ovf files compressed into one single ova archive file instead of many files in a folder. The file is basically a TAR archive.
For more information check the ovf file extension.
Updated: November 9, 2023
The default software associated to open ova file:
Company or developer:
VMware, Inc.
VMware Workstation is popular application used to create virtual computer machines in one desktop or laptop computer. It supports virtualization of many computer operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, MS-DOS, FreeBSD etc.
VMware Workstation can convert an existing physical computer into VMware virtual machine. Each virtual machine represents a complete computer, including processor, memory, network connections etc. VMware Workstation is distributed for Microsoft Windows and Linux.
Company or developer:
Oracle Corporation
VirtualBox is popular open-source multi-platform free x86 virtualization software package. VirtualBox supports virtualization of many operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris, OpenBSD etc.
VirtualBox has own specific virtual container format called Virtual Disk Image (VDI), where it stores virtual machine. VirtualBox also supports containers from other applications, such as WMvare and Microsoft Virtual PC.
The most popular file extensions used by Virtual Box are OVA, OVF and VDI.
List of software applications associated to the .ova file extension
Recommended software programs are sorted by OS platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android etc.)
and possible program actions that can be done with the file: like open ova file, edit ova file, convert ova file, view ova file, play ova file etc. (if exist software for corresponding action in File-Extensions.org's database).
Hint:
Click on the tab below to simply browse between the application actions, to quickly get a list of recommended software, which is able to perform the specified software action, such as opening, editing or converting ova files.
Software that open ova file - Open Virtual Machine Format single archive
Programs supporting the exension ova on the main platforms Windows, Mac, Linux or mobile. Click on the link to get more information about listed programs for open ova file action.
Microsoft Windows:
Main software associated with ova file by default:
VMware Workstation
VirtualBox
Other suggested software:
VMware Player