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VMware's ovftool doesn't install/work on VMware vMA 4.0?
Tried to install 64bit ovftool on VMware vMA 4.0 today and it failed to install or yield any useful information: [vi-admin@scofield]$ ./VMware-ovftool-installer-1.0.0-166674-lin.x86_64.sh VMware OVF...
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 ArticleUnsupported element 'Property' from ovftool and ESXi server
I'm trying to use the ovftool to import a OVA file into a ESXi server. However I get the following error Error: OVF Package is not supported by target: - Line 118: Unsupported element...
View ArticleError converting OVF to VMX -- virtualbox-3?
I am trying to convert a .ovf to a .vmx using the ovftool utility in terminal on OSX 10.6.8. USING the --lax command, the result I get is as follows: Opening OVF source:...
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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 Articlesetting ovf properties with ovftool and vcloud
I'm trying to import an OVA file with settable OVF properties for configuration (product key, network configuration) into vCloud with ovftool. It seems from the documentation that I should be using the...
View ArticleCan not convert a VMX from vCenter server to a local vmx
I am trying to convent a vmx within vCenter server to a local vmx, i am trying with: ovftool.exe "vi://user:password@my_vCenterserver/may_datacenter?ds=[my_datastore] my_vm/my_vm.vmx" C:\ovfs\my_vm.vmx...
View ArticleConversion chart?
Hello, I have been using VMWare for some time now, but new to this conversion tool and vCloud. My current dilemma is getting a VMWare player VMX converted so I can upload it to vCloud. Seemed...
View ArticleHow do I set target VM hostname when deploying OVA?
I'm deploying OVA files to a vCenter using ovftool; it's working perfectly, but I want to go the extra mile and automatically set the hostname of the VM after it is deployed. I found a reference to a...
View ArticleSerious problem in ovftool VMDK input
All, First of all, apologies if this is an inappropriate forum. I do not have a support contact for this issue. We are VMware customers, however our licenses are purchased through an academic reseller....
View Articleovftool deploy failing with "Network connection was lost"
Hey, Is anybody aware of what network flows exist when deploying an ovf file using ovftool through a vCenter? Right now ovftool is continually erroring out with the following message: Transfer Failed...
View Articleovftool: VirtualBox to vSphere with vmxnet3 driver
Hi all, I have a VirtualBox OVA file that I'd like to convert to vSphere with vmxnet3 driver. I've ran my VBOX OVA file against ovftool with --lax option to avoid the "unknown hardware virtualbox-2.2"...
View ArticleUnable to deploy an ovf to datacenter folder
We have a specific folder used for certain vm's that I need to deploy to.As an example I can view the current list of vm's with:ovftool vi://myadmin:mypass@ourvcenter/DATACENTER/vm/myvmsError: Found...
View ArticleNew blog entry about deploying a OVF (OVA) using ovftool
Rene posted a nice blog entry about using ovftool to deploy an OVA. http://blogs.vmware.com/vapp/2009/07/commandline-ovf-deployments-.html eske
View ArticleWhen will OVF support disk reference paths and not embed disk data into...
When moving VMs from RHEV, KVM, Hyper-V, and VMware, which many are doing today, OVF makes sense as a starting point, however, OVF is very ineffecient if the given VMs already have virtual disks in the...
View Articleiso to ovf/ova? Can it be done?
Hi I'm wondering if there is an automation tool/command(s) that will allow us (team of developers) to import/use a .iso file that contains 64bit OS and pass it through VMware ESXi or Server and then...
View ArticleVMware OVF Tool 2.1.0 is now alive.
Hi All. VMware OVF Tool 2.1.0 is now ready for download. Go to the download link on the frontpage. Eske
View ArticleError loading Operating System
I recently had an issue where I exported a VM as an OVF using the vSphere client, a few weeks later I needed to import the VM back into our environment and after importing I received an "Error loading...
View ArticleERROR: Not a supported disk format(Invalid sparse VMDK header)
Hi All, I have just come across ovftool and was giving a try to it. I am fairly new to VMware world.I have a .OVF which I exported using vSphere client 4.0. This .OVF comprises of 3 Suse Linux based...
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...
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