file associations for OVF files

[Paolo Galtieri]

I recently ran into an issue with files with .ovf extension.  The issue 
is that VMware Workstation will not import files that end in .ovf.  A 
file that ends in .ovf shows up as follows of Fedora 34:

file *.ovf returns

XML 1.0 document, ASCII text

What's interesting is that if you have VirtualBox installed and then try 
to open a .ovf file with VMware workstation it works because according 
to the VirtualBox documentation:

Oracle VM VirtualBox creates file type associations automatically for 
any OVF and OVA files on your host OS.

In fact if I run caja and click my way to the OVF file, right click on 
the file and look at the properties I get:

Type: Open Virtualization Format (application/x-virtualbox-ovf)

If I don't have VirtualBox installed I get

Type: XML document (application/xml)

So who should setup the file association for .ovf files?  How do I go 
about changing the association for .ovf files from XML document to 
something else so that I can associate it with VMware Workstation?

Any help is appreciated.

I have reported this issue to VMware also.

Thanks,
Paolo