Dominic Cleal wrote:

Which compute resource type is this for? It might be that you can already use vSphere or similar by loading it in as a template.

Thanks Dominic for your interest.
The compute resource is VMWARE, foreman version is 1.8.2. I have been successful in uploading the OVA to vsphere. From there it can be converted into template and a foreman image can point to that. Even with this method, I'm having problems associating the vm with a foreman host using REST API - it only supports associating all the VMs and this one fails on "interfaces should have vm or template". Through the GUI I have no problem since it can be done at virtual machine level.
I am looking for an all included package in foreman, something like build_method=ova.

Dominic Cleal wrote:

Please try a more current release, that association issue may well have been fixed - either in a later 1.8 release or 1.9, 1.10 or 1.11. If it remains, please file a new bug report for it.

We are in the process of configuring a new foreman server with 1.10.1 version. The thing is the described mechanism to install from OVA is too complex and was looking for a simple solution from foreman

I haven't thought thru this yet, but would there be a way to configure the OVA's guest properties?