ovf 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 ArticleProblems migrating VM from Server 2 to ESXi
Hello, I am trying to migrate a VM from a my VMWare Server 2 to my ESXi 3.5 Server. I probably should say, that I have just the VMware infrastructure client running in a VMware Server 2 VM running...
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...
View ArticleA quick note on using a domain login for ovftool
I didn't find this documented anywhere else, so I wanted to note that, if you want to use windows domain accounts in the authentication process for ovftool without specifying it interactively, you must...
View Articlehow to deploy ova/ovf into VMware Player?
hello. I create a ova file from my ESXi 5.0.0 with ovftool 2.1.0-467744, then I deploy this ova file into ESXi 5.0.0 is success and work well. But I can't deploy the same ova file into VMWare...
View Articleovftool 2.0.1 installation
Ovftool need to download 2.0.1 but vmware's website when I go to the download page tells me that is not, someone can provide me the tool, thanks
View ArticleUsing ovftool to deploy an OVF with references to external files does not...
Hi, I have an OVF file that refeneces a disk image from a webserver, e.g.: <File ovf:href="http://myserver/cdrom.iso" ovf:id="file1"/> When i try to deploy this OVF to a vSphere server, it fails...
View ArticleError: Failed to open disk: Test.vmdk
Hello all, I am having a problem with the ovftool. Here's what i did. 1)I created a VM running CentOS. 2)These are the 3 files that i got. Test.vmx Test.vmdk (Descriptor File) # Disk...
View ArticleBest way to export a VM as an OVF/OVA ?
Hi All, Everytime I manually export a VM using vsphere client, I am getting the resultant ovf of much larger size. ( i.e. size of .vmdk's are much larger, increases by 10% everytime )I looked at...
View ArticleNot able to ipaddress/gateway/netmask field configuration for deployed ovf in...
Hi, I want to config IP-address/gateway/netmask to the deployed ovf virtual machine and i getting the following info when i run ovftool.exeCan anyone help me out in configure ipaddress fields.Or is...
View Articleovftool terminating before starting the deployment of the ova
Hi Guys, I want to get some feed back about the below stack trace after setting the --X:logfile and loglevel 2013-04-29T04:47:37.841-07:00 [02188 verbose 'Default'] [SSL_DB] Using C:\Documents and...
View ArticleDeploy OVF Template problems
Hi!I'm trying to to deploy a OVF/OVA file into my vCenter but I'm getting a error message, pls help me. "Line 61: No space left for device '5' on parent controller '4'." (Tested to deploy other...
View ArticleUnsupported section "BootOrderSection" (Virtual hardware device boot order)
I have a Linux VM running on fusion, and using ovftool to convert this .vmx into .ovf, then import into a ESXi 5...unfortunately having this error message. I tried the -lax option, but doesn't help...I...
View ArticleSpecifying ?ip=[ip] in locator results in "Locator does not refer to an...
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...
View Articleovftool 1.0 and virtualcenter 2.5 update 4 Envelope error importing ovf
When I try to import an OVF vile created with ovftool 1.0 I get a compatibility error an error occurred while parsing the ovf descriptor: unable to parse xlm element ‘Envelope' I made an ovf file...
View ArticleProblems importing VMX file from Workstation 7
I have a VMX file that I am trying to import to Vsphere server and getting an error on the disk. I tried using the GUI Converter tool as a test, and it successfully imports. Here is my command:...
View ArticleESX 4.1 fails to deploy ova using ovftool and self-signed appliance
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...
View ArticleProblem with export VM to OVF ( not enough resources)
Hello, I'm trying to export a few VMs to OVF. Successfully I've exported 3 machines but another export finished with error "Failed to export Virtual Machine:Insufficient system resources exists to...
View ArticleOVFTool Export Job Dies
Hello, I'm trying to export a VM as an OVA from an ESXi 4.0 host through our vCenter Server again version 4.0. At present my command looks like this: ovftool.exe vi://<IP Address>/<...
View ArticleMaximum (realistic) sizes for OVA/OVF format and export?
Hi- has anyone hit any problems with exporting large (e.g. > 1TB) VMs in OVA/OVF format? I realise that you can split the files generated, but leaving aside any issues to do with the file-system on...
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