Hi,
I am using the ovftool v2.0.1 64bit to automatically create the OVA files from the virtual machines created by the workstation 7.1 and have two big problems:
- The ovftool don't know the gestos = "windows7-64" in the vmx file.
- It encode it to <OperatingSystemSection ovf:id="1" vmw:osType="*winVista64Guest">.
- Using the ovftool to create the virtual machine from this ova package create vmx file with guestos = "other" (32bit OS). The virtual machine doesn't work before the OS type is not changed to the 64bit win7
- Using the guestos = "winvista-64" in vmx file is the workaround but I want to see support for win7 x64bit OS, please.
- Using the ovftool with mapped network discs on Win7 is nightmare when encoding or decoding the OVA file with compress option. The speed is about 1MB/s when the target is on mapped network disk. Tested in more environment with same results.
The virtual drive size before compression (vmdk file) is about 12GB and the size after compression is about 5-6GB (ova package).
The OS installed in virtual drive is Win7 64b.
I am using parameter "--compression=9" when creating the ova package.
Do you have any solution for these problems. especially for the second one, please?