Omitting Disks in the VMware OVF Tool Output
Last Updated December 16, 2024

If you want only information about the OVF descriptor and not about the disks that it refers to, you can suppress output. The following example command omits disk output and simply copies the OVF descriptor and any message bundle files that might be associated with it:
> ovftool --noDisks http://example.com/ovf/InterestingVirtualAppliance package.ovf