Hi all,

I am trying to implement an OVF support for some virtualization software, which is using raw images for disks. I use qemu-img to convert raw images to vmdk format. Then I use ovftool to convert ovf file into vmware instance.

When the file I have is a simple ovf descriptor + manifest + disk - all is fine, it works even if I'm using qemu-img without "compat6" option

When the disk is compressed or the OVF package is packed into OVA - there are errors being thrown. Moreover when I create OVA package with no disk, the conversion works.

Here is the fragment of results for the OVA file:

Writing VMX file: test_ova.vmx
[2011-10-03 16:34:35.685 7F097D2C1720 verbose 'ovftool'] Using file size as progress measure
Disk progress: 0%[2011-10-03 16:34:35.685 7F097D2C1720 verbose 'ovftool'] Ovf::GetFileSource as StreamVmdk failed. Exception: Cannot open disk source: Not a supported disk format (sparse VMDK version too old)
Disk Transfer Failed                      
Error: Failed to open source disk: 3f66f54d-a9fa-4aa8-806d-d757d6f34a59.disk0.vmdk
[2011-10-03 16:34:35.685 7F097D2C1720 verbose 'ovftool'] Backtrace:
[00] rip 00007f09767453e4 
[01] rip 00007f09765e99d4 
[02] rip 00007f097658e038 
[03] rip 00000000004fef51 
[04] rip 000000000054aaa5 
[05] rip 000000000054ae78 
[06] rip 000000000049c41a 
[07] rip 00007f0974e62c4d 
[08] rip 000000000047ec7a 

[2011-10-03 16:34:35.685 7F097D2C1720 verbose 'ovftool'] Deleting file: ./test_ova-disk1.vmdk

Same fragment when I unpack OVA and then run ovftool on the .ovf file:

Writing VMX file: test_ovf.vmx
[2011-10-03 16:35:53.934 7F7E899C4720 verbose 'ovftool'] Using file size as progress measure
Disk progress: 0%[2011-10-03 16:35:53.935 7F7E899C4720 verbose 'ovftool'] Ovf::GetFileSource as StreamVmdk failed. Exception: Cannot open disk source: Not a supported disk format (sparse VMDK version too old)
Disk progress: 99%[2011-10-03 16:35:54.106 7F7E899C4720 verbose 'ovftool'] Ovf::GetFileSource: Opened 3f66f54d-a9fa-4aa8-806d-d757d6f34a59.disk0.vmdk as diskLib source
[2011-10-03 16:35:54.106 7F7E899C4720 verbose 'ovftool'] Opening disk target /xcinstall-1.corp.google.com/VirtualLsiLogicController0:0
Disk Transfer Completed                   
Completed successfully

Thank you.

Hi All,

I have just come across ovftool and was giving a try to it. I am fairly new to VMware world.

I have a  .OVF which I exported using vSphere client 4.0. This .OVF comprises of 3 Suse Linux based virtual machines. i.e. I created a vApp on ESX (4.1) host, in this vApp I put my 3 SLES VMs and then exported it as OVF.

It has a total size of around 4.5GB.

Now I ran this command to compress this .OVF as well as gave an option to create deltadisks.

C:\> ovftool --compress=9 --makeDeltaDisks --skipManifestCheck  MyVMCluster\MyVMCluster.ovf   E:\

output:

{{{

The manifest does not validate
Generating delta disks for 2 disks (capacity 40960 MB)
Reading disks
Disk Transfer Completed

Determining optimal configuration for capacity group
Writing configuration to disk
Disk Transfer Completed

Completed successfully

}}}

Now when I checked my E:\ It had created a folder with the same name and put related files there. I saw a significant reduction in the new vmdk size. ( around 2.3GB now )

Now when I manually deploy this new ovf on vSphere client, it goes till certain %age and then flags an error:

{{{

Error uploading file to server ( E:\MyVMCluster\disk3.vmdk.gz ) Not a supported disk format ( Invalid sparse vmdk header )

}}}

and then it stops and everything rolledback.

Any pointers ?

Thanks

Nikunj

What is the format of the ovf and what APIs do I use to set the ipaddress of a Vm when deploying it as an ovf?

hi,

i'm very newbie on terminal and i get this error when i tried to convert ova file to vmx. It says completed with errors but I can't locate any file, anywhere, and also the whole process is to fast for OVF Tolls to do anything.

What am i missing? Thanks

Miguel

MCR:~ mcr$ /Applications/VMware\ OVF\ Tool/ovftool --lax /Users/mcr/Downloads/untitled\ folder/Ubuntu\ FEUP/Ubuntu\ FEUP.ova exploit.vmx

Opening OVA source: /Users/mcr/Downloads/untitled folder/Ubuntu FEUP/Ubuntu FEUP.ova

Opening VMX target: exploit.vmx

Error: OVF Package is not supported by target:

 - Line 92: Unsupported element 'StorageItem'

 - Line 101: Unsupported element 'StorageItem'

 - Line 110: Unsupported element 'EthernetPortItem'

Completed with errors

I have an esxi 4.1 server that we are decommissioning as part of a move.  We've decided to archive some of the VMs that were part of a test bed, in case we need to revive them later.  I've been copying the VMs directly to a USB hard drive on my Mac with ovftool, but I've found that about half of the testbed VMs cannot be copied.  Here is an example of a failure:

wpeters$ ovftool vi://root@zeus.dvt.tachyon.net/Riverbed/VSH_markt /Volumes/Archive/VSH_markt.ova

Enter login information for source vi://zeus.dvt.tachyon.net/

Username: root

Password: *********

Opening VI source: vi://root@zeus.dvt.tachyon.net:443/Riverbed/VSH_markt

Error: vim.fault.FileNotFound

Completed with errors


 


And a success, on another VM:

wpeters$ ovftool vi://root@zeus.dvt.tachyon.net/Riverbed/VSH_250m /Volumes/Archive/VSH_250m.ova

Enter login information for source vi://zeus.dvt.tachyon.net/

Username: root

Password: *********

Opening VI source: vi://root@zeus.dvt.tachyon.net:443/Riverbed/VSH_250m

Opening OVA target: /Volumes/Archive/VSH_250m.ova

Writing OVA package: /Volumes/Archive/VSH_250m.ova

Transfer Completed                    

Completed successfully


 


Does anyone have any suggestions of what to look for?  I've started and stopped these VMs from the console, so I'm certain the storage is still available, etc.


Thanks!

okay, I know this isn't developed yet, but I thought I would ask about.

first I love VMware workstation, amazing tool. and most VMware products are quick and easy for the average user.

okay to meat of the topic. What would it take to install VMware natively withOUT a host operating system"

hear me out. I really love virtualization, and the option it gives to run ANY OS, but the drawback would be the HOST OS, I WISH there was a way to install a very simple OS that VMware creates or uses, to launch it's workstation. maybe call it "LiteStation". then with the same use of the workstation, load your OS, or OS's in many cases, being able to with such a low foot print might be able to open some doors for new technology.

now, the simple OS, it need limited capabilities, like driver install (preferably win drivers as they are the most common and most ready, but Linux drivers would be the most understandable), limited programs or possibly no program installs. but it need enough to use the full potential of the machine, so x64 would be required along with VT-x/EPT or AMD-V/RVI + acceleration etc.... with no browsers there won't be a need to install much security, just force it to connect, but not use the network connection except to switch it over to bridge the OS's in VM-LS.

I'm sure this software is not out there yet. but think of the possibilities, it would become a 'virtual' boot-loader... running all OS's in a virtual environment, utilizing the max potential of multi-platform. I could see the diminish of speed as we allocate a % of the native hardware for use by the VM's, but still. No longer would dual booting be a norm, having to restart just to use a different OS, but booting both would increase. sure we have native, but sometimes I don't want to mess with Win/Lin/OS just to get to the one I want. and I feel the native OS limits the use of the virtual machine.

or maybe something like this is already running.... I just haven't found out.

Anyways thanks for the listening... who knows maybe VMware might want to implement something like LiteStation in their software arsenal....

Accipitor

Hello, I'm having some trouble getting both the vSphere Client and ovftool to

import my OVF's.  When using the vSphere Client, I successfully walk through

the wizard to "Deploy OVF Template", I click Finish on the final wizard screen

and progress dialog pops up.  It counts up to 100% complete while showing

"Deploying disk 1 of 1..." and then always fails with the following error

displayed on a popup window:

"Failed to deploy OVF package: The remote server returned an error: (500)

Internal Server Error"

I then tried using ovftool, to convert my OVF to VMX format.  Similarly, the

"Disk Progress" percentage counts up to 100% and then errors with:

Opening OVF source: stout-1-x86_64.ovf

Warning: No manifest file

Opening VMX target: stout-out/

Target: stout-out/stout-1-x86_64/stout-1-x86_64.vmx

Disk Transfer Failed           

Error: Failed to open source disk: stout-1-x86_64.vmdk

In both cases, it seems the problem is with my disk file, which is a

stream optimized VMDK.  Just to check, I verified that I was able to import

this exact same disk file built into an OVF 0.9 using Virtual Infrastructure

Client 2.5.0.  So, I'm at a loss as to what the problem may be.  Do you have

to build the stream optimized vmdk any differently?  Any other suggestions on

how I may be able to debug this further?

Thanks for any help,

James Slagle

I am trying to import OVF with custom propery set and getting folling error with vmware ovf tool. Any idea on how to resolve this issue?

Error:

- Line 107: Unsupported element 'Property'

I'm trying to convert a .ova into a .vmx using OVFTool 2.1.0 but after reaching 99% I get an "IO Error"/Disk Transfer Failed and then the .vmx is deleted.

During the extraction process everything appears fine - I can monitor the file size of the .vmx and it continues to increase before being abruptly deleted after the error occurs.

Both source/destination files are on my local disk.  Here's the output of OVFTool:

2011-11-16T11:25:33.998+08:00 [03584 verbose 'Default'] Subscribing to signal: 2 (SIGINT)
2011-11-16T11:25:33.999+08:00 [03584 verbose 'Default'] Subscribing to signal: 4 (SIGILL)
2011-11-16T11:25:33.999+08:00 [03584 verbose 'Default'] Subscribing to signal: 22 (SIGABRT)
2011-11-16T11:25:33.999+08:00 [03584 verbose 'Default'] Subscribing to signal: 8 (SIGFPE)
2011-11-16T11:25:33.999+08:00 [03584 verbose 'Default'] Subscribing to signal: 15 (SIGTERM)
2011-11-16T11:25:33.999+08:00 [03584 verbose 'Default'] [ovfTool.cpp] Using home directory C:\Users\mernst\AppData\Roaming\VMware\ovftool.cfg
2011-11-16T11:25:33.999+08:00 [03584 verbose 'Default'] [ovfTool.cpp] OvfTool Environment:
--> /X:httpTimeout = "600"
--> /X:imageReadSize = "262144"
--> /X:logLevel = "trivia"
--> /X:logToConsole = "true"
--> /X:maxNumberOfTermSignals = "5"
--> /X:maxRedirects = "256"
--> /X:maximalDeltaConfSize = "8"
--> /X:maximalDeltaTreeSize = "6"
--> /X:progressSmoothing = "60"
--> /X:useMacNaming = "false"
--> /X:vCloudKeepTemplate = "true"
--> /X:vCloudTimeout = "3600"
--> /X:vimSessionTimeout = "600"
--> /authdPortSource = "902"
--> /authdPortTarget = "902"
--> /fencedMode = "bridged"
--> /prgPath = "c:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool"
--> /source = "C:\Temp\AETDemoVM_20111101.ova"
--> /target = "C:\VMs"
-->
2011-11-16T11:25:34.006+08:00 [03584 verbose 'Default'] [ovfTool.cpp] Done initializing libs
2011-11-16T11:25:34.006+08:00 [03584 verbose 'Default'] [ovfTool.cpp] Determining source
2011-11-16T11:25:34.006+08:00 [03584 verbose 'Default'] [ovfTool.cpp] Determining target
Opening OVA source: C:\Temp\AETDemoVM_20111101.ova
2011-11-16T11:25:34.011+08:00 [03584 verbose 'Default'] OVF Descriptor: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
--> <!--Generated by VMware VirtualCenter Server, User: Administrator, UTC time: 2011-11-01T21:34:14.675875Z-->
--> <Envelope vmw:buildId="build-455964" xmlns="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1" xmlns:cim="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/common" xmlns:ovf="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1" xmlns:rasd="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/CIM_ResourceAllocationSettingData" xmlns:vmw="http://www.vmware.com/schema/ovf" xmlns:vssd="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/CIM_VirtualSystemSettingData" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
-->   <References>
-->     <File ovf:href="AETDemoVM_20111101-disk1.vmdk" ovf:id="file1" ovf:size="24867252224" />
-->   </References>
-->   <DiskSection>
-->     <Info>Virtual disk information</Info>
-->     <Disk ovf:capacity="50" ovf:capacityAllocationUnits="byte * 2^30" ovf:diskId="vmdisk1" ovf:fileRef="file1" ovf:format="http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/specifications/vmdk.html#streamOptimized" ovf:populatedSize="52663681024" />
-->   </DiskSection>
-->   <NetworkSection>
-->     <Info>The list of logical networks</Info>
-->     <Network ovf:name="VM Network">
-->       <Description>The VM Network network</Description>
-->     </Network>
-->   </NetworkSection>
-->   <VirtualSystem ovf:id="AETDemoVM_20111101">
-->     <Info>A virtual machine</Info>
-->     <Name>AETDemoVM_20111101</Name>
-->     <OperatingSystemSection ovf:id="74" vmw:osType="windows7_64Guest">
-->       <Info>The kind of installed guest operating system</Info>
-->       <Description>Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit)</Description>
-->     </OperatingSystemSection>
-->     <VirtualHardwareSection>
-->       <Info>Virtual hardware requirements</Info>
-->       <System>
-->         <vssd:ElementName>Virtual Hardware Family</vssd:ElementName>
-->         <vssd:InstanceID>0</vssd:InstanceID>
-->         <vssd:VirtualSystemIdentifier>AETDemoVM_20111101</vssd:VirtualSystemIdentifier>
-->         <vssd:VirtualSystemType>vmx-07</vssd:VirtualSystemType>
-->       </System>
-->       <Item>
-->         <rasd:AllocationUnits>hertz * 10^6</rasd:AllocationUnits>
-->         <rasd:Description>Number of Virtual CPUs</rasd:Description>
-->         <rasd:ElementName>1 virtual CPU(s)</rasd:ElementName>
-->         <rasd:InstanceID>1</rasd:InstanceID>
-->         <rasd:ResourceType>3</rasd:ResourceType>
-->         <rasd:VirtualQuantity>1</rasd:VirtualQuantity>
-->       </Item>
-->       <Item>
-->         <rasd:AllocationUnits>byte * 2^20</rasd:AllocationUnits>
-->         <rasd:Description>Memory Size</rasd:Description>
-->         <rasd:ElementName>2048MB of memory</rasd:ElementName>
-->         <rasd:InstanceID>2</rasd:InstanceID>
-->         <rasd:ResourceType>4</rasd:ResourceType>
-->         <rasd:VirtualQuantity>2048</rasd:VirtualQuantity>
-->       </Item>
-->       <Item>
-->         <rasd:Address>0</rasd:Address>
-->         <rasd:Description>SCSI Controller</rasd:Description>
-->         <rasd:ElementName>SCSI controller 0</rasd:ElementName>
-->         <rasd:InstanceID>3</rasd:InstanceID>
-->         <rasd:ResourceSubType>lsilogicsas</rasd:ResourceSubType>
-->         <rasd:ResourceType>6</rasd:ResourceType>
-->       </Item>
-->       <Item>
-->         <rasd:Address>1</rasd:Address>
-->         <rasd:Description>IDE Controller</rasd:Description>
-->         <rasd:ElementName>IDE 1</rasd:ElementName>
-->         <rasd:InstanceID>4</rasd:InstanceID>
-->         <rasd:ResourceType>5</rasd:ResourceType>
-->       </Item>
-->       <Item>
-->         <rasd:Address>0</rasd:Address>
-->         <rasd:Description>IDE Controller</rasd:Description>
-->         <rasd:ElementName>IDE 0</rasd:ElementName>
-->         <rasd:InstanceID>5</rasd:InstanceID>
-->         <rasd:ResourceType>5</rasd:ResourceType>
-->       </Item>
-->       <Item>
-->         <rasd:AddressOnParent>0</rasd:AddressOnParent>
-->         <rasd:ElementName>Hard disk 1</rasd:ElementName>
-->         <rasd:HostResource>ovf:/disk/vmdisk1</rasd:HostResource>
-->         <rasd:InstanceID>6</rasd:InstanceID>
-->         <rasd:Parent>3</rasd:Parent>
-->         <rasd:ResourceType>17</rasd:ResourceType>
-->       </Item>
-->       <Item ovf:required="false">
-->         <rasd:AddressOnParent>0</rasd:AddressOnParent>
-->         <rasd:AutomaticAllocation>false</rasd:AutomaticAllocation>
-->         <rasd:ElementName>CD/DVD drive 1</rasd:ElementName>
-->         <rasd:InstanceID>7</rasd:InstanceID>
-->         <rasd:Parent>4</rasd:Parent>
-->         <rasd:ResourceType>15</rasd:ResourceType>
-->       </Item>
-->       <Item>
-->         <rasd:AddressOnParent>7</rasd:AddressOnParent>
-->         <rasd:AutomaticAllocation>true</rasd:AutomaticAllocation>
-->         <rasd:Connection>VM Network</rasd:Connection>
-->         <rasd:Description>E1000 ethernet adapter on "VM Network"</rasd:Description>
-->         <rasd:ElementName>Network adapter 1</rasd:ElementName>
-->         <rasd:InstanceID>8</rasd:InstanceID>
-->         <rasd:ResourceSubType>E1000</rasd:ResourceSubType>
-->         <rasd:ResourceType>10</rasd:ResourceType>
-->       </Item>
-->       <Item ovf:required="false">
-->         <rasd:AddressOnParent>0</rasd:AddressOnParent>
-->         <rasd:AutomaticAllocation>false</rasd:AutomaticAllocation>
-->         <rasd:Description>Floppy Drive</rasd:Description>
-->         <rasd:ElementName>Floppy drive 1</rasd:ElementName>
-->         <rasd:InstanceID>9</rasd:InstanceID>
-->         <rasd:ResourceType>14</rasd:ResourceType>
-->       </Item>
-->     </VirtualHardwareSection>
-->   </VirtualSystem>
--> </Envelope>         
Opening VMX target: C:\VMs
2011-11-16T11:25:34.446+08:00 [03584 verbose 'Default'] Creating disk C:\VMs\AETDemoVM_20111101\AETDemoVM_20111101-disk1.vmdk, 104857600 sectors, lsilogic
Writing VMX file: C:\VMs\AETDemoVM_20111101\AETDemoVM_20111101.vmx
2011-11-16T11:25:34.503+08:00 [03584 verbose 'Default'] Using file size as progress measure

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Disk Transfer Failed                      
Error: IO error
2011-11-16T12:06:51.863+08:00 [03584 verbose 'Default'] Backtrace:
--> backtrace[00] rip 000000000049693a (no symbol)
--> backtrace[01] rip 000000000036d008 (no symbol)
--> backtrace[02] rip 000000000036dc1e (no symbol)
--> backtrace[03] rip 00000000003211cb (no symbol)
--> backtrace[04] rip 00000001400e17f3 (no symbol)
--> backtrace[05] rip 00000001400e1c1b (no symbol)
--> backtrace[06] rip 000000014007e566 (no symbol)
--> backtrace[07] rip 000000014007e8d6 (no symbol)
--> backtrace[08] rip 000000014007ed6d (no symbol)
--> backtrace[09] rip 000000014001af6f (no symbol)
--> backtrace[10] rip 000000014001b76a (no symbol)
--> backtrace[11] rip 000000014025f62e (no symbol)
--> backtrace[12] rip 00000000771c652d (no symbol)
--> backtrace[13] rip 00000000775ac521 (no symbol)
-->
2011-11-16T12:06:51.863+08:00 [03584 verbose 'Default'] Deleting file: C:\VMs\AETDemoVM_20111101\AETDemoVM_20111101-disk1.vmdk
Deleting directory: C:\VMs\AETDemoVM_20111101
Completed with errors

I'm running OVF tool to export a running virtual machine (ESXi 5.0) from a command line. One of the options is shutting down the virtual machine before the export that works fine. Is there an option to start this machine automatically after the export?

Thanks a lot!

Hi Everyone,

I was trying to deploy a VM using the ovftool, I thought I would use the properties which are thrown from a "probe" of the OVA file.

ovftool http://server/files/builds/vpas/6.0.0/latest/vPAS-installer.ova

Properties:

  ClassId:     vami

  Key:         gateway

  InstanceId   vPAS

  Category:    Networking Properties

  Label:       Default Gateway

  Type:        string

  Description: The default gateway address for this VM. Leave blank if DHCP is

               desired.

  ClassId:     vami

  Key:         DNS

  InstanceId   vPAS

  Category:    Networking Properties

  Label:       DNS

  Type:        string

  Description: The domain name servers for this VM (comma separated). Leave

               blank if DHCP is desired.

  ClassId:     vami

  Key:         ip0

  InstanceId   vPAS

  Category:    Networking Properties

  Label:       Network 1 IP Address

  Type:        string

  Description: The IP address for this interface. Leave blank if DHCP is

               desired.

  ClassId:     vami

  Key:         netmask0

  InstanceId   vPAS

  Category:    Networking Properties

  Label:       Network 1 Netmask

  Type:        string

After having made sure that such properties exists from the probe, I tried to use them to give the VM a static IP post deployment, automatically.

ovftool --datastore="31_datastore" --acceptAllEulas --ipAllocationPolicy=fixedPolicy --name="vPAS_31_1" --powerOn --prop:ip0="172.16.121.115" --prop:netmask0="255.255.0.0" --prop:DNS="172.16.1.10" --prop:gateway="172.16.1.1" http://server/vpas/6.0.0/latest/vPAS-installer.ova vi://root:password@172.16.121.31/

Opening OVA source: http://server/files/builds/vpas/6.0.0/latest/vPAS-installer.ova

The manifest validates

Opening VI target: vi://root@172.16.121.31:443/

Deploying to VI: vi://root@172.16.121.31:443/

Transfer Completed                   

Powering on VM: vPAS_31_1

Warning:

- OVF property with key: 'DNS' does not exists.

- OVF property with key: 'gateway' does not exists.

- OVF property with key: 'ip0' does not exists.

- OVF property with key: 'netmask0' does not exists.

Completed successfully

Can someone please explain me whether this is a common problem ( from VMware ) or something I am doing wrong?

Thanks,

HI, I am using ovf tool.exe to  upgrade of SSO from 5.5 to 6.0 on linux guest machine using windows as ovftool host as  but not able to get the proper command .


My current command looks like below -

ovftool X:logFile=C:\log.txt "X:logLevel=verbose"  --acceptAllEulas -ds=upgrade-3  --powerOn --X:waitForIp  C:\folder\VMware-vCenter-Server-Appliance-6.0._OVF10.ova   vi://root:vmware11@10.110.xx.xxx/

Please let me know if anyone has tried this earlier or any way to pass the config file as json or similar.


Any pointers will be much appriciated. Thanks in advance.


The log is as 


2015-03-11T00:09:02.524-07:00 verbose -[02872] Curl session torn down

2015-03-11T00:09:02.524-07:00 verbose -[02872] Using vim API version: 5.5

2015-03-11T00:09:02.619-07:00 verbose -[02872] Determine if server is a standalone host or vpxd

2015-03-11T00:09:02.619-07:00 verbose -[02872] Login to server based on username and password

2015-03-11T00:09:02.619-07:00 verbose -[02872] Setting VI connection message locale (via login) to: 

2015-03-11T00:09:02.620-07:00 verbose -[02872] HttpConnectionPoolImpl created. maxPoolConnections = 1; idleTimeout = 900000000; maxOpenConnections = 1; maxConnectionAge = 0

2015-03-11T00:09:18.754-07:00 verbose -[02872] Setup nfcService, used to get a ticket for uploading/downloading a disk.

2015-03-11T00:09:18.826-07:00 verbose -[02872] Get host or vc sslthumpprint.

2015-03-11T00:09:18.826-07:00 verbose -[02872] Keeping VI session alive

2015-03-11T00:09:18.849-07:00 verbose -[02872] Backtrace: 

F:\vcsa-cli-installer\win32\ovftool&gt;ovftool X:logFile=C:\log.txt "X:logLevel

I am trying to install ovftool 4.1.0 on a Ubuntu guest I have on my Windows host.  I downloadedd the ovftool bundle changed permission to +x, started the bundle, and accepted the license.  It says it is ready to install and I press enter.  Then I get the below and ovftool is never installed.


 


Rolling back VMware installer component 2.1.0


Removing files..


Uninstalling VMware installer component 2.1.0


Deconfiguring...


 


Any ideas? The bundle I have is the 'VMware-ovftool-4.1.0-2459827-lin.x86_64.bundle' on Ubuntu 14


 

Hi I'm wondering if there is an automation tool/command(s) that will allow us (team of developers) to import/use a .iso file that contains 64bit OS and pass it through VMware ESXi or Server and then export it to OVF/OVA?

Is it possible? Can it be done?

Your answers will be very apreciated, many thanks!

Environment:

- ovftool 2.0.1 (build-260188)

-  ESXi 4.0.0 (244038)

-  ESXi 4.1.0 (260247)

I'm creating an OVA using ovftool from an appliance that's turned off.  It's installed on the ESX 4.1 machine.

When I create the appliance using a self-signed certificate, it deploys correctly on ESX 4.0.

However, the same appliance fails to deploy on the ESX 4.1 device.

I get the following error at 99%:

Failed to deploy OVF package: The request was aborted: The request was canceled.

Any ideas?

I'm experiencing a coredump when attempting to deploy an OVA into vCenter 5.0.0.  I have downloaded the OVA to the Windows 7 PC locally and have run the ovftool from that path as follows:

ovftool --X:logToConsole=true --X:logLevel="verbose" --name=ovf-test --datastore=datastore-local-113 --network=VLAN-603 MVF-ver-2_OVF10.ova "vi://Administrator:**********@10.45.99.10/MitelDesignCenter/host/VLabCluster-03 (Intel G6, stand-alone)/10.45.12.113"

The verbose output looks like this:

2012-01-13T11:45:23.595-05:00 [04492 verbose 'Default'] Subscribing to signal: 2 (SIGINT)

I have a .iso image from which I want to create a .ova , But everytime I run into a problem

Error: Curl error: Couldn't connect to server

Completed with errors

Here is the command I used,

ovftool vi://user:master/@14.23.12.34:443/rt4/www/html/imgs/qweTER7.3/.tyRani/NEWCFT/CFT-NEW-5.23.23.iso /rt4/www/html/tmp_ova/CFT-NEW-5.23.23.ova

Not sure whats wrong with this command, I don't have special character in my password or username

please note that 14.23.12.34 is a linux machine and both source and target are in same machine and Im executing ovftool command in same linux machine.

Thank you

Mac

I inserted eula file in ova file by ovftool command "eula@=[filename]".

But i dont know how to insert multi laguage eula.

How do I do that with the ovftool command?

Hello Friend,


I need to come up with Java script where all sort of events and alarms that get generated in vCenter can be tracked off. 


Is there a powerful document or link , which describes in detail how to work out?


Thanks in Advance !!!


Thanks,


Asif

Hello

I'm trying to export a VM to OVF format but it's failing with SSL error.

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool>ovftool.exe --noSSLVerify=true --compres

s vi://username:password@localhost:80/Test/143.219.176.247/HOCMPTWS01-Template y:\

margg\VM

Error: cURL error: SSL connect error

Completed with errors

I'm not using any special characters.

Has anyone seen this error? Any suggestions?

Using OVFTool 4.1

ESX 3.5

VCenter 2.5