Hi all,

I have a problem in deploying Suse OVF image, built using Susestudio.

while deploying the OVF, there's a default SuSE Eula which comes up.

using --acceptAllEulas doesn't seem to accept it automatically.

This Eula blocks my automation work.

Did any of you face this issue ??

Any help/workaround would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

Ive read through the pdf and have tried a few different ways but couldnt figure it out. I was curious if anyone could give me an example syntax of deploying an ovf into a resource pool on the target.

Thanks for the help.

Ray

I recently had an issue where I exported a VM as an OVF using the vSphere client, a few weeks later I needed to import the VM back into our environment and after importing I received an "Error loading Operating System" error.  I have imported and exported countless VMs as OVF files, and this is very frustrating.  I also have VMs sent to me from Government entities and I always express how they should send them as an OVF file since it makes it very easy for me to import.  Recently I had 1 out of 3 errors after the import with the same "Error loading Operating System" message.

I have tried to change the HD controller on the VM, I also created a New VM with the "custom" option and I chose the exact OS and vHardware for the VM, and I tried to use the existing .vmdk files and that does not work.  I'm just wondering if there is some simple fix out there for what I thought was a simple import and export.

I'm using ESXi 4.1 Update 2 on HP BL hardware...oh, I also have VMware Workstation 8, and I can mount the vmdk files.

Hello

I am running a Ubuntu 10.04 host system. Using the ovftool i tried to convert a ".vmx" file to ".ovf" file.

Here is the command that i used for the purpose.

$ sudo -tt=ovf ovftool "/mnt/test/cent.vmx"  "/mnt/test/cent1.ovf"

I got the following error after running this command.

I dont what the problem is.

Please help.

Thank you,

I am trying to deploy OVAs using ovftool 3.0.1 to an ESXi 5.1 host. When deploying VCSA 5.1.0b it works as expected with the following command:

I have confirmed that I can deploy the OVA manually. I have also confirmed the MD5SUM and tried the --disableVerification flag on ovftool. Any idea what I am missing?

I'm trying to use ovftool to automate OVA deployments to vCloud Director 5.1. I have installed ovftool 3.0.1 on Ubuntu and tested out some operations. Everything seems to work except that I always get a segmentation fault when I invoke a vcloud target.

Here is the logging output:

2013-04-12T09:38:22.261-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] [SSL_DB] Using /home/evan/.ovftool.ssldb as SSL DB
2013-04-12T09:38:22.263-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Subscribing to signal: 2 (SIGINT)
2013-04-12T09:38:22.263-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Subscribing to signal: 4 (SIGILL)
2013-04-12T09:38:22.263-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Subscribing to signal: 6 (SIGABRT)
2013-04-12T09:38:22.263-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Subscribing to signal: 8 (SIGFPE)
2013-04-12T09:38:22.263-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Subscribing to signal: 15 (SIGTERM)
2013-04-12T09:38:22.263-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Subscribing to signal: 1 (SIGHUP)
2013-04-12T09:38:22.263-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Subscribing to signal: 3 (SIGQUIT)
2013-04-12T09:38:22.263-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Subscribing to signal: 5 (SIGTRAP)
2013-04-12T09:38:22.263-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Subscribing to signal: 9 (SIGKILL)
2013-04-12T09:38:22.263-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Subscribing to signal: 13 (SIGPIPE)
2013-04-12T09:38:22.263-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] OvfTool Version: VMware ovftool 3.0.1 (build-801290)
2013-04-12T09:38:22.263-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Using home directory: /home/evan/.ovftool
2013-04-12T09:38:22.263-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] OvfTool Environment:
--> /X:httpTimeout = "0"
--> /X:imageReadSize = "262144"
--> /X:logToConsole = "true"
--> /X:maxNumberOfTermSignals = "5"
--> /X:maxRedirects = "256"
--> /X:maximalDeltaConfSize = "8"
--> /X:maximalDeltaTreeSize = "6"
--> /X:progressSmoothing = "60"
--> /X:useMacNaming = "false"
--> /X:vCloudEnableGuestCustomization = "false"
--> /X:vCloudKeepTemplate = "true"
--> /X:vCloudTimeout = "3600"
--> /X:vimSessionTimeout = "600"
--> /authdPortSource = "902"
--> /authdPortTarget = "902"
--> /fencedMode = "bridged"
--> /prgPath = "/usr/lib/vmware-ovftool"
--> /source = "vcloud://vclouddirector.intapp.net/"
--> /vCloudTemplate = "false"
-->
2013-04-12T09:38:22.270-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Done initializing libs
2013-04-12T09:38:22.270-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Determining source
2013-04-12T09:38:22.270-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Determining target
2013-04-12T09:38:22.302-07:00 [7F986BFFF700 verbose 'Default'] CURL: header data removed
2013-04-12T09:38:22.617-07:00 [7F986BFFF700 verbose 'Default'] CURL: header data removed
2013-04-12T09:38:22.617-07:00 [7F986BFFF700 verbose 'Default'] CURL: header data removed
2013-04-12T09:38:22.617-07:00 [7F986BFFF700 verbose 'Default'] CURL: header data removed
2013-04-12T09:38:22.617-07:00 [7F986BFFF700 verbose 'Default'] CURL: header data removed
2013-04-12T09:38:22.617-07:00 [7F986BFFF700 verbose 'Default'] CURL: header data removed
2013-04-12T09:38:22.617-07:00 [7F986BFFF700 verbose 'Default'] CURL: header data removed
2013-04-12T09:38:22.619-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] VCloud request body:
-->
2013-04-12T09:38:22.641-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] VCloud response body:
--> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
--> <SupportedVersions xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/versions" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/versionshttp://vclouddirector/api/versions/schema/versions.xsd">
-->     <VersionInfo>
-->         <Version>1.5</Version>
-->         <LoginUrl>https://vclouddirector.intapp.net/api/sessions</LoginUrl>
   ... schema output snipped ...
-->
2013-04-12T09:38:22.648-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] VCloud version used: 5.1

The end of the strace output:

[pid 15407] munmap(0x7f8b32f7c000, 135168) = 0
[pid 15407] munmap(0x7f8b32f9d000, 135168) = 0
[pid 15407] munmap(0x7f8b3cadb000, 135168) = 0
[pid 15407] write(6, "\25\3\1\0\30B& 2\7\30\3259W0n~(4\216\375\"\35\310c\211{+\350", 29) = 29
[pid 15407] close(6)                    = 0
[pid 15407] brk(0x2c17000)              = 0x2c17000
[pid 15407] brk(0x2c38000)              = 0x2c38000
[pid 15407] write(1, "2013-04-12T09:40:54.198-07:00 [7"..., 882013-04-12T09:40:54.198-07:00 [7F8B3CB7F740 verbose 'Default'] VCloud version used: 5.1
) = 88
[pid 15407] --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
Process 15404 resumed
Process 15407 detached
[pid 15410] +++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++
[pid 15409] +++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++
[pid 15408] +++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++
[pid 15411] +++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++
<... wait4 resumed> [{WIFSIGNALED(s) && WTERMSIG(s) == SIGSEGV && WCOREDUMP(s)}], 0, NULL) = 15407
write(2, "/usr/bin/ovftool: line 23: 15407"..., 91/usr/bin/ovftool: line 23: 15407 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) "$OVFTOOL_BIN" "$@"
) = 91
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
wait4(-1, 0x7fff27453e98, WNOHANG, NULL) = -1 ECHILD (No child processes)
rt_sigreturn(0xffffffffffffffff)        = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7f70fceb44a0}, {0x43f140, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7f70fceb44a0}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
read(255, "", 409)                      = 0
exit_group(139)                         = ?

Hello There,

OvfTool: 3.0.1

vCloud Director(VCD): 5.1

I use ovftool 3.0.1 to upload an ovf file to VCD and the server return error after upload completely.

It works previously while use ovftool 2.1 with VCD 1.5

I use ovftool 3.0.1 command line to upload template like this:

ovftool --X:logFile=upload.log --machineOutput --powerOn --acceptAllEulas --ipAllocationPolicy=transientPolicy "--net:mynetwork01=mynetwork01" --name=test88t "/tmp/ova/vwin1/vwin1.ovf" "vcloud://xxx:xxx@mynetwork/?org=zhongnan&vappTemplate=test88t&vdc=zhongnan-ALLOC-02&catalog=ISO%20Library" | while read x ; do echo $x; done

The ovf uploaded to VCD is complete, however I got an error result:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<InstantiateVAppTemplateParams name="test88t" deploy="false" powerOn="false" xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5"

                               xmlns:ovf="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1">

  <InstantiationParams>

    <NetworkConfigSection>

      <ovf:Info>Configuration parameters for logical networks</ovf:Info>

      <NetworkConfig networkName="mynetwork">

        <Configuration>

          <ParentNetwork href="https://mynetwork/api/network/xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx"

                         type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.network+xml" name="mynetwork-01"/>

          <FenceMode>bridged</FenceMode>

          <AddressingMode>POOL</AddressingMode>

        </Configuration>

        <IsDeployed>true</IsDeployed>

      </NetworkConfig>

    </NetworkConfigSection>

  </InstantiationParams>

  <Source href="https://mynetwork/api/vAppTemplate/vappTemplate-aaa-bbb-ccc-ddd"/>

  <AllEULAsAccepted>true</AllEULAsAccepted>

</InstantiateVAppTemplateParams>

        2013-06-11T04:33:17.786-07:00 [7FA9BA208720 verbose 'Default'] VCloud response body:

        --> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

        --> <Error xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5" minorErrorCode="BAD_REQUEST" message="Bad request

-->  - Unexpected JAXB Exception

-->  - cvc-complex-type.2.4.a: Invalid content was found starting with element 'AddressingMode'. One of '{&quot;http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5":RetainNetInfoAcrossDeployments,

&quot;http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5":Features, &quot;http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5":d, &quot;http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5":RouterInfo}' is expected."

                   majorErrorCode="400" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

                   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5http://sd1.aiscloud.net/api/v1.5/schema/master.xsd"></Error>

        -->

        2013-06-11T04:33:17.788-07:00 [7FA9BA208720 verbose 'Default'] Backtrace:

        --> backtrace[00] rip 00007fa9b42a0f44 Vmacore::System::Stacktrace::CaptureWork(unsigned int)

        --> backtrace[01] rip 00007fa9b406bca4 Vmacore::System::SystemFactoryImpl::CreateQuickBacktrace(Vmacore::Ref<Vmacore::System::Backtrace>&)

        --> backtrace[02] rip 00007fa9b4001ef8 Vmacore::Throwable::Throwable(std::string const&)

        --> backtrace[03] rip 000000000061e7c1 /usr/lib/vmware-ovftool/ovftool.bin() [0x61e7c1]

        --> backtrace[04] rip 000000000060fca8 /usr/lib/vmware-ovftool/ovftool.bin() [0x60fca8]

        --> backtrace[05] rip 000000000064eb65 /usr/lib/vmware-ovftool/ovftool.bin() [0x64eb65]

        --> backtrace[06] rip 000000000064fd7a /usr/lib/vmware-ovftool/ovftool.bin() [0x64fd7a]

        --> backtrace[07] rip 0000000000569c84 /usr/lib/vmware-ovftool/ovftool.bin() [0x569c84]

        --> backtrace[08] rip 00000000004c4b6e /usr/lib/vmware-ovftool/ovftool.bin() [0x4c4b6e]

        --> backtrace[09] rip 00000000004c7be4 /usr/lib/vmware-ovftool/ovftool.bin() [0x4c7be4]

        --> backtrace[10] rip 00007fa9b1cb1c4d /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7fa9b1cb1c4d]

        --> backtrace[11] rip 00000000004a2f79 std::basic_streambuf<char, std::char_traits<char>>::xsgetn(char*, long)

Please let me if this is a bug in ovftool to integrate VCD 5.1.

Thanks,

Jeff

I'm deploying OVA files to a vCenter using ovftool; it's working perfectly, but I want to go the extra mile and automatically set the hostname of the VM after it is deployed.

I found a reference to a 'hostname' property (--prop:hostname=myvm.example.com), but it doesn't actually work

Here's my command  line

ovftool --lax --acceptAllEulas --datastore=MySAN --overwrite --powerOn --vmFolder=TestFolder --diskMode=thin --powerOffTarget --prop:hostname=myvm.example.comhttp://myurl.com/path/input.ova vi://vcenteruser:password@mycenter.example.com/MyDC/host/MyD/Resources/OVFTest

So what is the proper way to do this?

I have a setup where I am accessing vCenter and an ESXi host through a NAT layer. If I try to deploy directly to vCenter, ovftool automatically tries to connect to the ip address of the ESXi host behind the NAT layer, which fails.

It looks something like this:

[root@ovfimporter mnt]# date; ovftool --datastore="PayGo Storage" --net:"VLan 4=DedicatedPortGroup_NNNN" CUST/CUST.ovf vi://matthew.wallace@10.10.10.1/Customer\ Datacenter/host/PayGo\ Cluster/Resources/Paygo/NNNN\ \(abc44060-35dc-438a-8c79-6bc7586082ab\)/ ;date

Tue Oct  8 10:18:43 MDT 2013

Opening OVF source: CUST/CUST.ovf

The manifest validates

Enter login information for target vi://10.10.10.1/

Username: matthew.wallace

Password: *********

Opening VI target: vi://matthew.wallace@10.10.10.1:443/Customer%20Datacenter/host/PayGo%20Cluster/Resources/Paygo/NNNN%20(abc44060-35dc-438a-8c79-6bc7586082ab)/

Deploying to VI: vi://matthew.wallace@10.10.10.1:443/Customer%20Datacenter/host/PayGo%20Cluster/Resources/Paygo/NNNN%20(abc44060-35dc-438a-8c79-6bc7586082ab)/

Transfer Failed

Transfer Failed

Error: Lost connection to target

Completed with errors

Tue Oct  8 10:20:19 MDT 2013

Looking at netstat, I saw a hung connection to 443 of one of the ESX hosts in that PayGo Cluster:

In this case, 172.17.0.10 is the "real" IP of one of the esx hosts in the PayGo cluster managed by that vCenter, which I can reach from the client running the ovftool only by using the NAT ip of 10.10.10.100.

So, I tried to specify the external ip of that host. Per the ovftool 3.5 user guide:

Given that, I tried using several syntaxes:

ovftool --datastore="PayGo Storage" --net:"VLan 4=DedicatedPortGroup_NNNN" CUST/CUST.ovf vi://matthew.wallace@10.10.10.1/Customer\ Datacenter/host/PayGo\ Cluster/Resources/Paygo/NNNN\ \(abc44060-35dc-438a-8c79-6bc7586082ab\)/?ip=10.10.10.100

or even just the simplest version to see if I can get a prompt for going further down in the locator tree:

ovftool --datastore="PayGo Storage" --net:"VLan 4=DedicatedPortGroup_NNNN" "vi://matthew.wallace@10.10.10.1/?ip=10.10.10.100"

I invariably get a result like this:

The manifest validates

Enter login information for target vi://10.10.10.1/

Username: matthew.wallace

Password: *********

Error: Locator does not refer to an object: vi://matthew.wallace@10.10.10.1:443/?ip=10.10.10.100

Completed with errors

Outside of the brief mention of the "ip=xxx" param mentioned in the ovftool userguide I've been unable to find any reference to someone successfully using this parameter so I'm uncertain if this is a bug, my not understanding the intention of the parameter as specified in the OVF tool guide, or me using bad syntax.

I am trying to convent a vmx within vCenter server to a local vmx, i am trying with:

ovftool.exe "vi://user:password@my_vCenterserver/may_datacenter?ds=[my_datastore] my_vm/my_vm.vmx" C:\ovfs\my_vm.vmx

as the tool user guide Page 35, session "Converting a VM on ESXi or vCenter to an OVF" introduces.

But I got prompt as:

Opening VI source: vi://my_vCenterserver:443/

Error: Datacenter object not found

Completed with errors

But, i am sure the my_datacenter is INDEED exists.

Any suggestions what should i do?

Additional:

I even can NOT probe my VMX like this:

ovftool.exe vi://user:password@my_vCenterserver/my_datacenter/my_vm/my_vm.vmx

with Error:

Error: Locator does not refer to an object: vi://user:password@my_vCenterserver/my_datacenter/my_vm/my_vm.vmx

But I am very sure 'my_vmx' locates indeed there.

Hello,

I am using vSphere ESX (4 or 5).

I am writing automatic scripts using esxcfg and ovftool (on windows) commands.

I have some questions:

1. How can i create Resource Pool's? (if it cannot be done using ovftool, is there another way? maybe using esxcfg?)

2. What is the exact syntax of ovftool to deploy under that Resource Pool?

I am looking for something like this:

ovftool --noImageFiles -ds=dsName --net:"Network1"="Network2" --name=MyVM "C:/MyVM.ovf" "vi://user:password@192.168.1.1/Resource/myResource"

or anything else that can help.

Thanks!

erelh

Hi all ...I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this question and I'm hoping someone could plase advise me as to how to do this.

I created a nested ESXi 5.5b VM.The VM is not connected to a vCenter as yet and it may or may not be connected based on whether or not I want to join it to a vCenter or not.

I then set the vAPP options to enable for the VM settings.

I then set various advanced properties for the VM.

I now have a Python script (I named it test2.py) which collects the properties from an OVA during it's deployment , the script then uses the info collected from the properties and applies them in commands at the cli.

I use this info to alter things like the Hostname, DNS, IP and other info inside the VM.

This all works successfully.

I would like to have the script start/run-once at boot time after the vAPP is deployed.

How do I do this ? and where to I place the script ? so that is does not get deleted or destroyed when the ova gets created and then deployed.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards

Den

I HAVE a query can we install vSphere ESXi 4.1 U3 and ESXi 5.5 in HA cluster vCenter 5.5.

Hi,

I am trying to deploy an. ova file using ovftool with the following command :

C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware OVF Tool>ovftool -ds=<datastore> --net:"VM Network
"=standard_trunk --net:"VM Network 2"=standard_trunk -n=g1 <<MYOVA.ova>> vi://username:password@<IPaddr>
Opening OVA source: vwlc.ova
The manifest validates
Opening VI target: vi://root@10.50.16.36:443/
Deploying to VI: vi://root@10.50.16.36:443/
Progress: 59%

Removing temporary objects and files

Transfer Failed

Error: Execution aborted

Error: Operation was canceled

Completed with errors

And it aborts with the above error.

Can anyone help me out.

Hi all,

I have a VirtualBox OVA file that I'd like to convert to vSphere with vmxnet3 driver.

I've ran my VBOX OVA file against ovftool with --lax option to avoid the "unknown hardware virtualbox-2.2" issue which produces VMX and VMDISK file.

Is there a way for OVFTOOL to change the network adapter to use vmxnet3 as opposed to "just open the VMX file and edit virtualDev section"?

Thanks,

Ed

Hi fellows,

                       I had deployed a virtual ESXi host on a physical ESXi and then I created an OVA file of that virtual host and then was trying to deploy the OVA after changing the IP, subnet mask and gateway properties of the OVA file. But when i used the probe mode to have a look at the class ID and other properties, I found them to be missing.

C:\Users\abhinav.srivastava>ovftool test1.ovf

OVF version:   1.0

VirtualApp:    false

Name:          vhost1

Download Size:  283.32 MB

Deployment Sizes:

  Flat disks:   25.00 GB

  Sparse disks: 325.44 MB

Networks:

  Name:        VM Network

  Description: The VM Network network

Virtual Machines:

  Name:               vhost1

  Operating System:   otherlinux64guest

  Virtual Hardware:

    Families:         vmx-08

    Number of CPUs:   2

    Cores per socket: 1

    Memory:           2.18 GB

    Disks:

      Index:          0

      Instance ID:    8

      Capacity:       25.00 GB

      Disk Types:     SCSI-lsilogic

    NICs:

      Adapter Type:   E1000

      Connection:     VM Network

So right now I am not able to change the OVA properties and deploy the virtual host. I need to do this as I want this step automated. Does anybody know why am I not able to see the properties of the OVA file. Am I going wrong somewhere. Kindly help!!

Thanks,

Abhinav

Hi all,


I use ovftool to upload a local box to our Vsphere instance. But two important values in the VMX file are removed when they reside on the ESX host. What I do is this:


$ ovftool --noSSLVerify=false --acceptAllEulas --name=test_box --datastore=esx-devel-local --diskMode=thick --network=DUMMY --vmFolder= boxes/test_box/test_box.vmx 'vi://user@vcenter/SR/host/esx-devel.domain.de/Resources/'
Opening VMX source: boxes/test_box/test_box.vmx
Opening VI target: vi://user@vcenter:443/SR/host/esx-devel.domain.de/Resources/
Deploying to VI: vi://user@vcenter:443/SR/host/esx-devel.domain.de/Resources/
Transfer Completed
Completed successfully


The local VMX file contains the following two lines:


$ grep cpu ./boxes/test_box/test_box.vmx
cpuid.corespersocket = "4"
numvcpus = "1"


But they no longer exist in the uploaded VMX file:


/vmfs/volumes/53f5fc7a-1456f0d6-d91c-f4ce46214a14/test_box # grep cpu test_box.vmx
/vmfs/volumes/53f5fc7a-1456f0d6-d91c-f4ce46214a14/test_box #

     /vmfs/volumes/53f5fc7a-1456f0d6-d91c-f4ce46214a14/test_box # ls -l

     total 28672008

     -rw-------    1 root     root     29360128000 Sep 10 10:00 test_box-flat.vmdk

     -rw-------    1 root     root           502 Sep 10 09:59 test_box.vmdk

     -rw-rr    1 root     root             0 Sep 10 09:59 test_box.vmsd

     -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          1610 Sep 10 09:59 test_box.vmx

     -rw-rr    1 root     root           270 Sep 10 09:59 test_box.vmxf

Does anybody have a clue whats happening? Next I'll make a debug run with ovftool. If anything new comes up, I'll post it here.

Hi,


I have ovftool version (4.0.0).I am trying to create an ovf  of a VM with extra config parameters. How do i specify the exportFlags command line option to allows the config parameters to translate from the VM to the ovf ? The documentation says I need to specify a extraconfig vSphere source .


This works fine : ovftool --allowAllExtraConfig  --extraConfig:ethernet1.coalescingScheme=disabled --extraConfig:ethernet0.coalescingScheme=disabled


but this doesn't : ovftool --exportFlags=extraconfig 


I don't want to add the key:value in the command line , rather pick up these from the VM  I am using to create the ovf.


Is there something that I am missing out ?


Thanks in advance


 

Hello,

I am seeking guidance on automation\customization of an OVA deployment.

Looking to use an OVA due to it's compression ability which is favorable when needing to transfer a VMWare virtual machine from Host to Host for deployment at different location across a WAN.  In the past, we have created a VM template and provided customization file for deployment but the size of the template was too large for transfer across the WAN....so we would have to ship on seperate media.

I am looking to achieve the same end result of deployment of a vm template but through the deployment of the OVA template.

Here is where I am at so far:
1. Create the VM (in this case Windows XP SP3)
2. Export the VM to OVA Template.
3. Deploy OVA Template

All of the above works without any problem.  However, during deployment of the OVA, I would like to prompt the end user to input computer name, Fixed IP information or DHCP, domain to join, etc.  Additionally, I would like sysprep to run.

I have read the guide and numerous articles on the OVF descriptors, but not quite sure where or how to input these prompts so they appear during the OVA deployment.  Additionally, if I sysprep the vm before exporting to OVA, how can I get sysprep and the input from the end user deployment to work hand in hand.

Thanks in advance for any guidance or tutorial reference you can supply to help me understand OVA deployment of a single vm and how to configure custom settings during deployment with sysprep running.

I want to set some properties to ovf files.

I use ovftool as bellow:

ovftool --prop:ip=10.32.23.123 --prop:dns=255.255.254.0

when this command has been executed without error showing, I still cannot see the property of ovf files.

Then I used ovftool myovffile.ovf

I still can not see the property I want to set.

what should I do?