Lost network connection data during the OVF conversion process
Hi all,My application converts an OVF format VM into VMX format, run a program to patch/insert fileinto the vmdk file, re-convert the VMX format back to OVF format. During the process, the original...
View Articleexporting & importing VM;s ..
Gents , Pls bear with me as this will be long post... I plan to export a Whole DC consisting of some 90 + VM , each VM has it;s Own datastore ( Bad thing i know..will streamline it ) . the esx version...
View ArticleOVFtool "IO Error" when .ova is 99% extracted
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...
View Articleovftool 2.1.0 `Error: Curl error: Coudn't resolve host name`
Greetings friends, I have installed ovftool on a Linux machine with SLES 11 SP1 x86_64 I am currently experimenting on how to use ovftool, as i'm a total newbie considering it's use. I currently have a...
View ArticleSpecify IP Address for N/W card 4
Hi All, I am trying to create an OVF using vSphere client with additional properties.I want that during import of this OVF ( using vSphere client ) a dailog should come asking for IP configuration for...
View Article--compress=9 giving disks of larger size than original
Hi All, I have an ovf package with only one vmdk file of soze 3.3GB. When I am using ovftool with compress=9 option. Its giving me "VMX" of size 5.3GB {{{ C:\>ovftool --compress=9 MyVM.ovf...
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 ArticleOVF deploy not showing license agreement
I have been given an externally generated OVF that the ovftool verifies as perfectly fine and shows me that there are End-user license agreements. However, when I use vCenter (4 and 5) to Deploy OVF...
View ArticleDeploy OVA to ESXi 5 host directly
Hello all, I have a linux VM on a remote ESXi 5 host that I have installed OVFtool. That same linux vm has a local "win2k8.ova" ova file. Here is the command i'm trying to use: ovftool -ds=DS1...
View ArticleNot Able to Export to OVF
Not sure if I'm not getting the syntax correct, but I am attempting to export a vm in OVF format directly from a ESXi 4.1 host. I have tried several different commands, but all have failed. Any help...
View Article3.0.1 download?
I see that 3.0.1 came out on the 9.10.2012 but I don't see a place to download it. Any help? For reference:http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/ovf/ showed 3.0.1 and had the new docs but no download.
View ArticleOVF Disk Section
I have created my own OVF discriptor XML file for creating Logical Partations on systems and installing OS on the created Virtual machines.But I m facing problem in specifying the Disk Section...
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 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 ArticleSupport for thin provisioned disks?
I have sucessfully exported a VM, preconfigured with thin provisioned disks, in both and OVF and OVA formats. When I import the machine, however, the disk format is thick. I've tried using the...
View ArticleNot able to deploy a VM from .ova format using ovf tool
I am trying to deploy a VM into ESXi 4.1 from .ova template using ovftool. My ESXi is having two datastores:- datastore1 and datastore-2. This is the syntax I am using:- ovftool.exe --name=test...
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 ArticleGot Problem with converting Ova to VMx
Hi , there !i got problem when i deploy a .ova file , when the process of deploying is around 98 99 % an error comes say u can't go any farther !!! this is a complete log of what it says !!!...
View Articleovftool.exe crashes when deploying OVA from Windows 7
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...
View Articlegetting following error while calling OVF tool.
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool>ovftool E:\vmdk2008\Windows2008\Windows2008P2V.vmx...
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