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To use OVF files with other virtualisation systems like KVM you may have to convert the OVF file to a native format; Two well-known tools for this purpose are virt-v2v (available in CentOS6/RHEL) and virt-convert (in Debian).

Hyper-V

The Windows Hyper-V technology does not fully support the OVF industry standard. Microsoft documents a complex and somewhat limited procedure on their page about converting OVF files to Hyper-V. There are third-party conversion tools available that simplify this deployment scenario, for example StarWind's free V2V converter which worked well in our tests.

Fire up the VM and set the IP Address

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To configure opReports all that is needed is to enter a license key using the instructions above.  For more information on setting up and configuring opReports see it's its community page.