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How to reduce the size of OVF file?

How to reduce the size of OVF file? I am very new to OVF template feature and I created an OVF file from windows 7 VM. I created this OVF file from vSphere client (5.1) by using the export template...

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Unable 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...

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Problem running OVF Tool 3.0.1 on Mac (Locale initialization failed)

There is unfortunately a bug in OVF Tool 3.0.1 on Mac that causes OVF Tool not to work if the current directory is not the same as the installation directory! For example, if you have made a symbolic...

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Error 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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ovftool fails with curl error: couldn't connect to server

HI, I'm trying to create an OVF using ovftool 3.0.1. When I issue the ovftool command from the command line I get:Error: cURL error: Couldn't connect to serverCompleted with errors I used the...

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vCenter 5 virtual appliance configuration

Hello.. Is it possible to give vCenter appliance ip, gateway, netmask etc via ovftool? Same way as to Orchestrator. --prop:vami.DNS.VMware_vCenter_Server_Appliance=10.0.0.69...

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ovftool download problem

  Having problems installing  VMware-ovftool-2.0.1-260188-lin.i386.sh on a linux host.   When I try to install I get VMware OVF Tool 2.0 installer scriptCopyright VMware 2010.........extracting...

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Virtual serial port in OVF descriptor to import in VMWare ESX 4.0

Hi to all in the community, I have some problems configuring a Juniper virtual appliance with a "virtual serial port" in an OVF format. I intend to configure the basic network settings of this...

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how to I import an ovf into esxi 3.5

I've got a number of VM''s running that I've created or converted from physical machines but a software supplier gave me a zip file that contains; a .ovf, .mf and and .vmdk file I'm running the free...

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giving Connect error when converting Win2K8 by vConverter

Was giving an SSL error, now giving a connecgt error. No firewall involved. I wonder Windows does not have ssh, so, why is vConverter using ssh. Any help much appreciated.  Section for VMware vCenter...

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Creating 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...

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OVA file for VM with vdisks on different datastores

Hi,    I have an ova file created for a virtual machines that has 6 virtual disks.  All disks were on different datastores.  When I import that ova I'd like a way for the vdisks to not all end up in...

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OVF 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...

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failed to upload template to vcloud director with ovftool 3.0.1

Hello There, OvfTool: 3.0.1vCloud Director(VCD): 5.1I use ovftool 3.0.1 to upload an ovf file to VCD and the server return error after upload completely.It works previously while use ovftool 2.1 with...

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Specifying ?ip=[ip] in locator results in "Locator does not refer to an...

I have a setup where I am accessing vCenter and an ESXi host through a NAT layer. If I try to deploy directly to vCenter, ovftool automatically tries to connect to the ip address of the ESXi host...

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Create an OVF with no disks

Hi everyone, I'm totally new to this forum. I've already done my research about the question I'm going to ask and unfortunately couln't find any valid answers. So the question is: would it be possible...

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Include advanced CPU settings in OVF/OVA

Is it possible to include the advanced CPU settings for a VM when you build an OVF/OVA with ovftool? My VM must have VT-x enabled (nested virtualization) and the default setting seem to be disabled....

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ovftool fails to deploy vApp (containing 12VMs) with its ova file while...

We found ovftool fails to deploy a vApp instance, within which 12VMs are to be created, from an ova file, while it succeeds if the ova file contains a slimmer version ovf file (VMs' no is decreased to...

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ovftool "locator does not refer to an object"

I am trying to create an OVF from a vm in vsphere - I'm running ovftool on a linux machine, and using the following syntax (I got this from the ovftool users guide):ovftool...

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ovftool 3.5.0 not running on CentOS 5 (needs GLIBC 3.4?)

Installed ovftool 3.5 on CentOS 5.9.  Install went without any errors, says Installation Successful. Running ovftool yields about 5 errors similar to:/usr/lib/vmware-ovftool/ovftool.bin:...

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