Migrate to another vCenter
Hi all, I have a "little" question. I have installed a new vCenter 5.5 in my farm and I would like to migrate all clusters/hosts to it. In my old vcenter there are a lot of vApps. How can migrate all...
View Articleovftool --nodisks still creates .ovf file with disk information
Hi All, I'm using ovftool with the --noDisks option, but there still seems to be disk information in the .ovf file (see attachments). I'm trying to import the virtual appliance on a ESXI 3.5...
View Articlehow to change ovf exported from vsphere to be compatible with workstation?
Hi, we want make our virtual appliance as vmware ready. We want have OVF file with VMDK compatible with vmware workstation, player, server and esx3.5. But we have only Vmware vSphere. vSphere...
View ArticleExport ESXi VM using ovftool in Linux
Hello, I am trying to use the ovftool in Linux to export a VM running on ESXi 4.0 to an OVF package with the following syntax: $ovftool "vi://root@192.168.X.XXX?ds=[datastore1]test-vm/test-vm.vmx"...
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OVFTOOL - Configuration file syntax for parameters without explicit values
(Easy) Question… Regarding the use of global configuration file (ovftool.cfg) and local configuration file with OVFTOOL. Syntax is given only for comments and parameters which are name-value pairs,...
View Articleovftool import VM slow
Hi, Am I the only one that gets about 10Mbps (Megabits/second), or about 1MB/sec (megabyte/sec) throughput when using the ovftool to import a VM on a 1Gbps LAN? I would assume there is some type of...
View ArticleAnybody got the latest Oracle (Sun) Open Storage simulator imported to ESX4?
I've been trying to import the ovf-based Oracle storage simulator to ESX4. Also tried importing to Workstation when that failed. No luck. Not with integrated converter, not with standalone converter,...
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 Compatibility in VMWare products
Hi I have created CentOS VM in ESXi 4.1 server and i have exported this VM into OVF using vSphere Client 4.1 with export OVF option. Because I wanted use and test this same VM in other following VM...
View ArticleConverting OVA file to VMX
I downloaded the latest OVF converter tool but it looks like as per documentation, it cannot convert OVA to VMX?If yes, how? If no, how do I? Thanks
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 ArticleUsing OVFTool 2.1.0 with vmdk/vmk from Converter
Contents too long on my OVF descriptor? C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool>ovftool --X:logToConsole y:\A10\A10.vmdk y:\A10.ovf[2011-08-30 13:10:49.390 05232 verbose 'ovftool'] Subscribing to...
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 ArticleOVF used for backup and restore?
Hello, I am brand new to the OVF Tool and am currently reading the documentation and experimenting with the utility. I would like to know if the OVF Tool is a good utility for performing VM backups...
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 Article.ovf created on vsphere 5.0 deployed on older vsphere version
Quick question, has anybody every deployed an ovf file that was created on 5.0 to an older version of vsphere. We may need to be doing this in the future. So, this is a preemptive question to see if...
View Articlegetting following error while calling OVF tool.
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool>ovftool E:\vmdk2008\Windows2008\Windows2008P2V.vmx...
View Articlevapprun and property labels
Hi, sorry if it's the wrong forum - vapprun doesn't have its own. I am using vapprun "def-property" to add a few OVF properties to a vApp, before repackaging the vApp as an OVA file. I am able to...
View ArticleHow does one include a vmx file entry into an ovf file template?
In order to run our VM on Workstation 9 and ESX 5.1 it is necessary to enter the following in our .vmx file: timeTracker.lazyApic = "FALSE" This is necessary to keep the timer ticks from being...
View ArticleOVF Tool 3.0.1 Segmentation fault on linux
Running OVF Tool 3.0.1 on 32 bit CentOS 6 Linux 2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.i686 (download from VMWare site md5sum was checked ok) Tool starts up fine and is in the process of exporting a VM from one ESXi 4.1...
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