Large 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 Articlegetting following error while login
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool>ovftool --machineOutput --acceptAllEulas --verifyOnly E:\vmdk2008\Windows2008\Windows2008P2V.vmx...
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 Articleovftool frequently encounters Unexpected end of stream
HelloI've looked around in the forums, but couldn't find a resolution to this problem. I'm using ovftool (the latest version - 2.1.0) to deploy an ova consisting of 3 VMs to an ESXi 4.1 server, via a...
View ArticleComment sauvegarder une VM équipée d'un périphérique SCSI avec ovftool ?
Bonjour à tous, Je travail actuellement sur le développement un script de sauvegarde de VM qui utilise l'outil OVFTOOL. Le script se déroule correctement pour des VM n'ayant pas de périphériques...
View ArticleNo local configuration options in .ovftool
Hello: I am working in a Windows environment with ovftool 3.01. When running the ovftool in a directory that contains an ovf and a .ovftool file, the ovftool does not seem to pick up the local...
View ArticleDeploy OVA "Transfer Failed"
I have an OVA that have built and deployed via VIC many times successfully. I am now trying to automate the deployment via the OVFTOOL. However, I keep seeing this "transfer failed" message. Is...
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 Articleovftool 3.0.1 on Mac "Failed to open file" error
Hi, I am unable to convert the VM to OVF format. MyMac $ ovftool Windows\ 7.vmxError: Locale initialization failed.Completed with errors I followed the steps in other thread to fix locale issue, then I...
View ArticleUse OVFTool to Convert OVA File Without A Domain
OVFTool keeps failing when I try to convert an OVA image to vmdk, since I don't have a domain on our network, a la vi://hostname.domain. What should I do? It's a Mitel Linux Image.
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 ArticleDoes anyone know how to sign ova with timestamp?
I am creating ova file using VMware OVF tool .And I want to use public Code Signing Certificate like published by Globalsign or Verisign.But current OVF tool doucment is not introduce how to sign with...
View Articleovftool - Managing Resource Pools
Hello, I am using vSphere ESX (4 or 5).I am writing automatic scripts using esxcfg and ovftool (on windows) commands. I have some questions: 1. How can i create Resource Pool's? (if it cannot be done...
View ArticleScripting ovftool
I need to write a script to remotely shotdown a guest VM, export it to .ova format an restart it.Is there any sample I can start from?Regardsmarius
View ArticleOVA vs OVF in ovftool
Hi all,I am trying to implement an OVF support for some virtualization software, which is using raw images for disks. I use qemu-img to convert raw images to vmdk format. Then I use ovftool to convert...
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 ArticleHow to include 2 EULA files in an ovf?
Using OVFtool 2.1 (seems the download for 3.0.1 is still broken!) to create an ovf, and I need to insert two EULAs. The command option is --eula@=[path][filename] which is working fine for me. But I...
View ArticleNot able use the ipaddress and netmask properties from ovf using ovftool
OVF Command option:ovftool.exe "--acceptAllEulas=true" "--name=Robo_Naren_vApp_Temp" "--datastore=fiddleback-esx2:storage1" "-dm=thin" "--network=VM-Network" "C:/appliance-main-image-8.0.0.3.0.ova"...
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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