Solved Compressing an OVF using OVFTool by VMWare

[IRJ]

I exported a VM to OVF from VMWare workstation. Now I am trying to run the OVFTool to set a higher level of compression.

When I run the OVF Tool, I am getting:
Error: Failed to open OVF descriptor

Any ideas?

[IRJ]

Also does anyone know what level of compression the default Export As OVF does?

[IRJ]

From VMware kb:

https://pubs.vmware.com/workstation-9/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.ws.using.doc%2FGUID-D1FEBF81-D0AA-469B-87C3-D8E8C45E4ED9.html

So if I am reading this correctly, maybe the OVFTool only works for non-vmware created OVF files?

[IRJ]

From what I am reading now, it appears that the OVF uses compression level 5. It is possible to gain extra compression by using a tool like 7 zip but the gains are very minimal. On a 4GB VM you may see it drop to 3.9GB if you compress it again using 7zip. The minor gain isn't worth having to compress it twice IMO.