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If your template files are very large, then you should use a manual upload to the VM repository filesystem. This method requires access to the NFS file system, so a system administrator should manage it. Note that Abiquo VM templates are OVF packages and they consist of disk files and ovf OVF descriptors. You can use external tools to generate an OVF package to be imported into Abiquo as a VM template. These tools include recent versions of VirtualBox and VMware vShpere. (Note: If using VirtualBox export from the command line, check that there is a ''size'' attribute for all the File elements in the References section). An OVF package should have a single virtual system but can contain multiple disks in a compatible format (see Template Compatibility Table). Abiquo recommends that you use an automatically generated OVF descriptor, but it is also possible to create one, as described here.
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- Copy a sample Abiquo OVF file (e.g. OVF Reference#ExampleOVFDescriptor). Save the OVF file with the image file name and .ovf extension.
- Edit the OVF file according to the guidelines in OVF Reference#OVF for Abiquo.
- Remember that you need to enter the disk size. See Determine the size of a VM disk file
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