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Simple creation of OVA from VMX on ESXi 5.1 vCenter
I give; I have spent too long attempting to find the magic decoder ring to get ovftool to do what I expect to be a very basic use case. My vCenter server is win2k8 R2 node, my host node is RHEL6.3, and...
View Articleovftool VM->ova/f fails with SHA1 digest of file . . . disk.iso does not...
I'm trying to create an OVA file from an installed VM. If I try creating it with ovftool 3.5, it downloads everything completely then gives me the following error:SHA1 digest of file...
View ArticleCreate OVF/OVA via ovftool
Hi, I have a ESXi 5.0 server running which has a Guest VM running CentOS 5.6. The ESXi server is a standalone server, not included in a datacenter, not managed by vCenter. The server has a HDD of 80G...
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difference between ovf version 0.9 and 1.0?
What is the difference between OVF 1.0 and 0.9 version? I would be interested in knowing about the major enchancements made in the newer versions and thereby the advantages of the same. Thanks in...
View ArticleError deploying ovf file created with OVFTOOL 1.0 VMware converter 4.0.1....
I converted a Virtual Machine installed on a ESX 3.5 server to a virtualappliance (*.ovf ) file using the OVFTOOL1.0.Now I am trying to convert this virtual appliance to deploy as a virtual machine on...
View Articleovftool crashes
Using ovftool for the first time and it throws a critical error: ovftool "vi://root:********@server005/term008 - xenapp server" "f:\Data\Virtual Machines\TERM008 - XenApp server\term008.ovf"Opening...
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 ArticleUnable to parse xml element 'Envelope'
I used ovftool (1.0 running in a RHEL 5.2 VM) to create an ovf of a powered off RHEL 5.1 VM. All was successful and I can probe the OVF without issue. However, when I try to import it as a virtual...
View ArticleUnsupported element 'Property'
I am trying to import OVF with custom propery set and getting folling error with vmware ovf tool. Any idea on how to resolve this issue? Error: - Line 107: Unsupported element 'Property'
View ArticleError: Found wrong kind of object (VirtualMachine)
Hi, I have problems copying a VM from an esxi 3.5 Server to a VMware Server 2 using ovftool. I already created the vm on VMWare server, but that did not help I am trying with the command line:...
View ArticleError message/ workaround for OVF Tool?
I downloaded all the files (vmx, both vmdk's etc) from an ESX 3.5 host to my local UNIX box. Then I ran the 0.9 version of OVF Tool (release 62566) and get these errors: Opening VMX file:...
View ArticleIssue with --acceptAllEulas
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...
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 with Active Directory Question (vSphere crashes)
When I try to export one of my VMs using File/Export/Export OVF Template....it crashes vSphere with a nice assertion window. To see what the cause of this is, I decided to try using ovftool 2.1.0 on...
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 ArticleCreating MyvApp.ova from VM1.ova and VM2.ova
Hi All, I have two .ova's with me. Both are SLES based and are highly customised. Designed to work togethar. 1) Is it possible using ovftool to create a vApp containing these two vms.? 2) And also...
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...
View Articleovftool - deploy vshield manager 5.1.2 to esxi 5.1 error
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: "/Applications/VMware OVF Tool/ovftool" --acceptAllEulas...
View ArticleSegmentation Fault when using vcloud target
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...
View ArticleHow to upgrade hardwareversion
Hi i've an OVF virtual appliance with hardware version 4 how can i upgrade it to hardware version 7 and convert to OVA as well? it seems ovftools does not have the ability to upgrade to a higher...
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