How to create a single file OVA from a virtual machine in VMware workstation

Just what I was looking for instead of zipping my whole archive, thank you!

I wanted to deploy the latest version of packetfence into my eve-ng lab, unfortunately, no luck, i managed to create a model for it, but whenever i "tar" the ova file on v12-2.0 and create its qcow2 image, it never boots properly, only packetfence v10.1.0 worked for me, but its too old, only revolves around inline enforcement purposes :/
i'll try manually installing their lates version their the ISO image and export it and see how it goes :3
thanks for the helpful tutorial, will update my situation.