Escaping backslashes (or other special characters) in the FTP locator
Using ovftool 3.0.1, I cannot figure out how to escape the backslash character when specifying the username and password in an FTP locator on the command line. $ ovftool...
View Articleovftool fails to deploy vApp (containing 12VMs) with its ova file while...
We found ovftool fails to deploy a vApp instance, within which 12VMs are to be created, from an ova file, while it succeeds if the ova file contains a slimmer version ovf file (VMs' no is decreased to...
View ArticleHow do I set IPaddress when deloploying an OVF using Vsphere APIs
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?
View Articleovftool coredumped
I use ovftool to deploy an appliance to a host (esx 3.5i). after disk copy done, I got an error message and the tool core dumped. What does the message means ? Thanks in advance. Opening OVF...
View Articlerun ovftool error , anyone helps?
i am using ovftool (verisn 2.01), and i have got some error as below, anyone ever met these? SOS (1)command:"C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool\ovftool.exe" --X:logToConsole...
View ArticleOVF Import Virtual Disks to Various Datastores
Hello, I have scoured documentation to see if there was anyway to define multiple datastores on OVF imports. There are a few machines in the inventory that have virtual disks in various datastores. I...
View ArticleOVFTool cannot set property successfully
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...
View Articleovftool - Defining the 'Product', 'Version' and 'Vendor'?
Hi, Am trying to export an ova from a VM using ovftool. Something along the lines of... ovftool --prop:Version=100 --privateKey=./id_rsa.pem --eula@=./eula.txt...
View ArticleOvfTool - Resource Switch not working.
Hi, Thanks in advance for any help that can be given with this, Have been looking at rolling out .ovf VM's as part of a automation project. What we are trying to do is roll out two servers to a...
View ArticleHow to correctly run a .py python script at bootup
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...
View ArticleLarge OVF imports into vCloud Director 1.0.1 fail, smaller imports succeed
I'm getting wildly different results while importing large OVF file into vCloud Director 1.0.1 via the ovftool than when performing the upload of the same OVF via the native JAva tool within vCloud...
View ArticleError in uploading to vCloud using ovftool
Hi, I try to upload a physical server image to vcloud but it keep returning this error "Invalid response from Server" >ovftool -o --net:"bridged=myNetwork" --ipAllocationPolicy=transientPolicy...
View Articleovftool failing to convert vmx to ovf
Hello,I'm attempting to do a vmware to ovf converstion. However, I'm receiving some fairly generic errors from ovftool and was hoping I could get some help. Here are the console messages when I...
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OVFT: unable to export with spaces (in path) on server.
Hi All, I'm unable to get ovftool to export a vm from my server that has spaces in the path to the vmx file.Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! On the server:~ # vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvmsVmid Name...
View Articleovf tool fails on device paths
"A line such as ide1:0.fileName = "/dev/cdrom" or a line such as ide1:0.fileName = "/dev/scd0" wil cause the ovftool to abort with the following message: - Device 'cdrom1' has a backing type that is...
View ArticleOVF Tool memory range error
I'm using the ovf tool to convert a virtual appliance to virtual machine format and getting a memory size limitation error based on the OVF source. The source ovf file specifies 4GB of memory for...
View ArticleHow do I keep vmxnet3 NIC type when exporting to OVF/OVA
Hi,I exported a VM from my ESXi 4.0.0 server using ovftool for Windows but the type of NIC seems to have been changed as part of the conversion. It was VMXNET3 on the host but ends up being VMXNET in...
View ArticlePublishing an ovf to IIS 6?
I have exported an VM to an ovf and put it in a folder on a 2003 windows server. I then created a web folder in IIS 6, and turned on folder browsing. When I put the url path in vSphere to import the...
View ArticleVirtual serial port in OVF descriptor to import in VMWare ESX 4.0
Hi to all in the community, I have some problems configuring a Juniper virtual appliance with a "virtual serial port" in an OVF format. I intend to configure the basic network settings of this...
View ArticleDatatype error: Type:InvalidDatatypeValueException
Hi, I am getting following error message while checking ovf file using --schemaValidate option. C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool>ovftool.exe --schemaValidate "w:\Virtual...
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