Unable to convert ovf into vmx, I get the following error:

Error:

- Line 32: Unsupported value '4' for element 'VirtualQuantity'.

- Virtual machine has 4 virtual CPUs, but the host only supports 2. The number

of virtual CPUs may be limited by the guest OS selected for the virtual machine

or by the licensing for the host.

Completed with errors

How do I fix this?

Thanks

Unable to convert ovf into vmx, I get the following error:

Error:

- Line 32: Unsupported value '4' for element 'VirtualQuantity'.

- Virtual machine has 4 virtual CPUs, but the host only supports 2. The number

of virtual CPUs may be limited by the guest OS selected for the virtual machine

or by the licensing for the host.

Completed with errors

How do I fix this?

Thanks

When I try to import an OVF vile created with ovftool 1.0 I get a compatibility error

an error occurred while parsing the ovf descriptor:

unable to parse xlm element Envelope'

I made an ovf file using ovftool 1.0 from a virtual machine I was running on an ESX 3.5 server.

The tool created the file with no problems and when I run the following command I get no error:

ovftool --schemaValidate x:\OVF\clone.ovf

Opening OVF source: x:\OVF\clone.ovf

OVF version: 1.0

Name: clone (1)

Download Size: 5.14 GB

Deployment Sizes:

Flat disks: 32.00 GB

Sparse disks: 8.13 GB

Networks:

Name: VM Network

Description: The VM Network network

Virtual Hardware:

Family: vmx-04

Disk Types: SCSI-lsilogic

Completed successfully

I am having a similar problem. A coworker provided me a VMWare runtime of a typical server. I installed ESX Server 3I Version 3.5.0, Build 153875 on our server hardware and VMWare infrastructure client Version 2.5.0, Build 147633 on our client. I then attempted to use the OVFTool - VMWare Vcenter converter - Version 4.1.0.5213 to convert the file. The OVFTool command line tool indicated that the conversion occurred successfully. I then used the VMWare infrastructure client to import the .ovf file. The Import Location error message indicates that there is a problem with the "envelope" created by the ovftool (Import Location - An error occurred while parsing the OVF descriptor: Unable to parse xml element 'Envelope' ).

Here is the XML from the .ovf file.

lt;Envelope vmw:buildId="build-166674"

xmlns=[http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1]

xmlns:cim=[http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/common]

xmlns:ovf=[http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1]

xmlns:rasd=[http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/CIM_ResourceAllocationSettingData]

xmlns:vmw="http://www.vmware.com/schema/ovf" xmlns:vssd=[http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/CIM_VirtualSystemSettingData]

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"gt;

Is there a patch or work around for this error? VMWare is dead in the water until I find a way to import this VM into our ESXi environment. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Hi all,

I am trying to import an ovf using the import-vapp command. Unfortunately I am unable to specify an ovf on a web server to deploy. It seems like it is unsupported.

As it works fine with the GUI I have attempted to work out how to do it using the API and Onyx. Unfortunately the output of Onyx does not include the web server name, so I can't get this to work.

Otherwise if I can't work this out I will just use ovftool. But it seems like there should be an easier way.

Yeah it is an annoying limitation. Hopefully it will be allowed in future PowerCLI releases.

I can't see anything in the OvfManager object which allows me to select an OVF on an http server. So I am either overlooking a property or for some reason it is not in the public API.

Thanks Luc

Hi,

trying to convert a "SUSEstudio" generated vmdk/vmx to our VI.

I have:

SLE_11.1JeOSPHR.x86_64-0.0.3.vmdk

SLE_11.1JeOSPHR.x86_64-0.0.3.vmx

christian@chrisw:/srv/ISO/JeOS/SLE_11.1JeOSPHR-0.0.3gt; ovftool SLE_11.1JeOSPHR.x86_64-0.0.3.vmx

Opening VMX source: SLE_11.1JeOSPHR.x86_64-0.0.3.vmx

OVF version: 1.0

Name: SLE_11.1JeOSPHR.x86_64-0.0.3

Download Size: Unknown

Deployment Sizes:

Flat disks: 4.04 GB

Sparse disks: Unknown

Networks:

Name: bridged

Description: The bridged network

Virtual Hardware:

Family: vmx-04

Disk Types: SCSI-lsilogic

Completed successfully

#####

When I try to convert it to vi (to correct datastore) I'm getting the mentioned error:

so what is the correct syntax ??

christian@chrisw:~/srv/ISO/JeOS/SLE_11.1JeOSPHR-0.0.3gt; ovftool -ds=CX300-OTC-02 -dm=thick SLE_11.1JeOSPHR.x86_64-0.0.3.vmx vi://i000156@vc.icw.int/DC%20OTC

Opening VMX source: SLE_11.1JeOSPHR.x86_64-0.0.3.vmx

Please enter login information for target vi://vc.icw.int/

Username: i000156

Password: ********

Error: Locator does not refer to an object: vi://i000156@vc.icw.int/DC%20OTC

DataCenter="DC OTC"

DataSource="CX300-OTC-2"

THX

Chris

Even I am also facing a similiar Issue ..I am using it on a widows 2008 Server so a bit lost between forward and reverse slash...tries all combination But no use..it suggests me compilations as well...but again those slashes ..

Greetings! Question in regards to OVFtool and how storage file systems are handled in VMWare.

I am using the OVFTool version 2.1.0 (Tried 3.5.0 with not much avail) to export multiple VMDK files or disks in a Virtual Machine (versions 7 and 8) to a multiple OVA files for each - at moment tool allows for consolidation of disks in a partitioned state into ONE OVA - Does anyone know of a work around or undocumented switch which can be used to create X # of virtual disks to X # of OVAs for import into another system?

Copying VMDKs is not a viable option in this case as want to remain with OVA standards.

Thank you!

Greetings! Question in regards to OVFtool and how storage file systems are handled in VMWare.

I am using the OVFTool version 2.1.0 (Tried 3.5.0 with not much avail) to export multiple VMDK files or disks in a Virtual Machine (versions 7 and 8) to a multiple OVA files for each - at moment tool allows for consolidation of disks in a partitioned state into ONE OVA - Does anyone know of a work around or undocumented switch which can be used to create X # of virtual disks to X # of OVAs for import into another system?

Copying VMDKs is not a viable option in this case as want to remain with OVA standards.

Thank you!

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 "e:\shared\Windowns2003EServerSp2\Win2003.vmx" "e:\shared\1\Win2003_0.vof"error information:
[2011-03-08 14:51:19.640 03480 verbose 'ovftool'] Subscribing to signal: 2 (SIGINT)

[2011-03-08 14:51:19.640 03480 verbose 'ovftool'] Subscribing to signal: 4 (SIGILL)

[2011-03-08 14:51:19.640 03480 verbose 'ovftool'] Subscribing to signal: 22 (SIGABRT)

[2011-03-08 14:51:19.640 03480 verbose 'ovftool'] Subscribing to signal: 8 (SIGFPE)

[2011-03-08 14:51:19.640 03480 verbose 'ovftool'] Subscribing to signal: 15 (SIGTERM)

[2011-03-08 14:51:19.640 03480 verbose 'ovftool'] [ovfTool.cpp] Using home directory C:\Documents and Settings\tom\Application Data\VMware\ovftool.cfg

[2011-03-08 14:51:19.640 03480 verbose 'ovftool'] [ovfTool.cpp] OvfTool Environment:

/X:fencedMode = "bridged"

/X:imageReadSize = "262144"

/X:logToConsole = "true"

/X:maxNumberOfTermSignals = "5"

/X:maxRedirects = "256"

/X:maximalDeltaConfSize = "8"

/X:maximalDeltaTreeSize = "6"

/X:progressSmoothing = "60"

/X:vimSessionTimeout = "600"

/authdPortSource = "902"

/authdPortTarget = "902"

/prgPath = "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool"

/source = "e:\shared\Windowns2003EServerSp2\Win2003.vmx"

/target = "e:\shared\1\Win2003_0.vof"

[2011-03-08 14:51:19.656 03480 verbose 'ovftool'] [ovfTool.cpp] Done initializing libs

[2011-03-08 14:51:19.656 03480 verbose 'ovftool'] [ovfTool.cpp] Determining source

[2011-03-08 14:51:19.671 03480 verbose 'ovftool'] [ovfTool.cpp] Determining target

Opening VMX source: e:\shared\Windowns2003EServerSp2\Win2003.vmx

[2011-03-08 14:51:19.750 03480 error 'ovftool'] CoreDump: ExternalCoreMaster was not setup

[2011-03-08 14:51:19.750 03480 error 'ovftool'] CoreDump: ExternalCoreMaster was not setup

[2011-03-08 14:51:19.765 03480 info 'ovftool'] CoreDump: Writing minidump

[2011-03-08 14:51:19.843 03480 panic 'ovftool']

Panic: Win32 exception: Access Violation (0xc0000005)

Read (0) at address 00000000

rip: 7855b9f0 rsp: 0012fb14 rbp: 0012fb20

rax: 00000000 rbx: 0012fc78 rcx: 00000000

rdx: 00000004 rdi: 029a3d38 rsi: 0012fc78

Backtrace:

backtrace[00] rip 01b9936d (no symbol)

backtrace[01] rip 01b06fa4 (no symbol)

backtrace[02] rip 01b07517 (no symbol)

backtrace[03] rip 01bb2d49 (no symbol)

backtrace[04] rip 01bb2e6d (no symbol)

backtrace[05] rip 01ba72f4 (no symbol)

backtrace[06] rip 7857dca0 (no symbol)

backtrace[07] rip 7857d4eb (no symbol)

backtrace[08] rip 7857d8b6 (no symbol)

backtrace[09] rip 7857d9d3 (no symbol)

backtrace[10] rip 7857db8a (no symbol)

backtrace[11] rip 7c9232a8 (no symbol)

backtrace[12] rip 7c92327a (no symbol)

backtrace[13] rip 7c92e48a (no symbol)

backtrace[14] rip 78487155 (no symbol)

backtrace[15] rip 0044661f (no symbol)

backtrace[16] rip 0044aedf (no symbol)

backtrace[17] rip 0040cfba (no symbol)

backtrace[18] rip 0058799b (no symbol)

backtrace[19] rip 7c817077 (no symbol)

Section for VMware Workstation, pid=3292, version=e.x.p, build=build-260188, option=Release

[2011-03-08 14:51:19.843 03480 panic 'ovftool'] Win32 exception: Access Violation (0xc0000005)

Read (0) at address 00000000

rip: 7855b9f0 rsp: 0012fb14 rbp: 0012fb20

rax: 00000000 rbx: 0012fc78 rcx: 00000000

rdx: 00000004 rdi: 029a3d38 rsi: 0012fc78

(2)command:"C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool\ovftool.exe" --X:logToConsole "e:\shared\Windows2003EESp2\Clone of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmx" "e:\shared\1\Clone of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition_0.vof"error information:
[2011-03-08 14:51:21.281 01468 verbose 'ovftool'] Subscribing to signal: 2 (SIGINT)

[2011-03-08 14:51:21.281 01468 verbose 'ovftool'] Subscribing to signal: 4 (SIGILL)

[2011-03-08 14:51:21.281 01468 verbose 'ovftool'] Subscribing to signal: 22 (SIGABRT)

[2011-03-08 14:51:21.281 01468 verbose 'ovftool'] Subscribing to signal: 8 (SIGFPE)

[2011-03-08 14:51:21.281 01468 verbose 'ovftool'] Subscribing to signal: 15 (SIGTERM)

[2011-03-08 14:51:21.281 01468 verbose 'ovftool'] [ovfTool.cpp] Using home directory C:\Documents and Settings\tom\Application Data\VMware\ovftool.cfg

[2011-03-08 14:51:21.281 01468 verbose 'ovftool'] [ovfTool.cpp] OvfTool Environment:/X:fencedMode = "bridged"/X:imageReadSize = "262144"/X:logToConsole = "true"/X:maxNumberOfTermSignals = "5"/X:maxRedirects = "256"/X:maximalDeltaConfSize = "8"/X:maximalDeltaTreeSize = "6"/X:progressSmoothing = "60"/X:vimSessionTimeout = "600"/authdPortSource = "902"/authdPortTarget = "902"/prgPath = "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool"/source = "e:\shared\Windows2003EESp2\Clone of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmx"/target = "e:\shared\1\Clone of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition_0.vof"

[2011-03-08 14:51:21.296 01468 verbose 'ovftool'] [ovfTool.cpp] Done initializing libs

[2011-03-08 14:51:21.296 01468 verbose 'ovftool'] [ovfTool.cpp] Determining source

[2011-03-08 14:51:21.296 01468 verbose 'ovftool'] [ovfTool.cpp] Determining target

Opening VMX source: e:\shared\Windows2003EESp2\Clone of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmx[2011-03-08 14:51:21.359 01468 verbose 'ovftool'] OVF Descriptor: ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?!--Generated by VMware ovftool 2.0.1 (build-260188), UTC time: 2011-03-08T06:51:21.359375Z--Envelope vmw:buildId="build-260188" xmlns="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1" xmlns:cim="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/common" xmlns:ovf="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1" xmlns:rasd="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/CIM_ResourceAllocationSettingData" xmlns:vmw="http://www.vmware.com/schema/ovf" xmlns:vssd="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/CIM_VirtualSystemSettingData" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" References File ovf:href="e%3a%5cshared%5cWindows2003EESp2%5cWindows%20Server%202003%20Enterprise%20Edition-cl1-000005.vmdk" ovf:id="file1"/ /References DiskSection InfoVirtual disk information/Info Disk ovf:capacity="8" ovf:capacityAllocationUnits="byte * 2^30" ovf:diskId="vmdisk1" ovf:fileRef="file1" ovf:format="http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/specifications/vmdk.html#streamOptimized"/ /DiskSection NetworkSection InfoThe list of logical networks/Info Network ovf:name="bridged" DescriptionThe bridged network/Description /Network /NetworkSection VirtualSystem ovf:id="vm" InfoA virtual machine/Info NameWin 2003SP2 Vulnerrability/Name OperatingSystemSection ovf:id="69" vmw:osType="winNetEnterpriseGuest" InfoThe kind of installed guest operating system/Info /OperatingSystemSection VirtualHardwareSection InfoVirtual hardware requirements/Info System vssd:ElementNameVirtual Hardware Family/vssd:ElementName vssd:InstanceID0/vssd:InstanceID vssd:VirtualSystemIdentifierWin 2003SP2 Vulnerrability/vssd:VirtualSystemIdentifier vssd:VirtualSystemTypevmx-07/vssd:VirtualSystemType /System Item rasd:AllocationUnitshertz * 10^6/rasd:AllocationUnits rasd:DescriptionNumber of Virtual CPUs/rasd:Description rasd:ElementName1 virtual CPU(s)/rasd:ElementName rasd:InstanceID1/rasd:InstanceID rasd:ResourceType3/rasd:ResourceType rasd:VirtualQuantity1/rasd:VirtualQuantity /Item Item rasd:AllocationUnitsbyte * 2^20/rasd:AllocationUnits rasd:DescriptionMemory Size/rasd:Description rasd:ElementName384MB of memory/rasd:ElementName rasd:InstanceID2/rasd:InstanceID rasd:ResourceType4/rasd:ResourceType rasd:VirtualQuantity384/rasd:VirtualQuantity /Item Item ovf:required="false" rasd:Address0/rasd:Address rasd:DescriptionUSB Controller/rasd:Description rasd:ElementNameusb/rasd:ElementName rasd:InstanceID3/rasd:InstanceID rasd:ResourceType23/rasd:ResourceType /Item Item rasd:Address0/rasd:Address rasd:DescriptionSCSI Controller/rasd:Description rasd:ElementNamescsiController0/rasd:ElementName rasd:InstanceID4/rasd:InstanceID rasd:ResourceSubTypelsilogic/rasd:ResourceSubType rasd:ResourceType6/rasd:ResourceType /Item Item rasd:Address1/rasd:Address rasd:DescriptionIDE Controller/rasd:Description rasd:ElementNameideController1/rasd:ElementName rasd:InstanceID5/rasd:InstanceID rasd:ResourceType5/rasd:ResourceType /Item Item ovf:required="false" rasd:AddressOnParent0/rasd:AddressOnParent rasd:AutomaticAllocationfalse/rasd:AutomaticAllocation rasd:DescriptionFloppy Drive/rasd:Description rasd:ElementNamefloppy0/rasd:ElementName rasd:InstanceID6/rasd:InstanceID rasd:ResourceType14/rasd:ResourceType /Item Item ovf:required="false" rasd:AddressOnParent0/rasd:AddressOnParent rasd:AutomaticAllocationfalse/rasd:AutomaticAllocation rasd:ElementNamecdrom1/rasd:ElementName rasd:InstanceID7/rasd:InstanceID rasd:Parent5/rasd:Parent rasd:ResourceType15/rasd:ResourceType /Item Item rasd:AddressOnParent0/rasd:AddressOnParent rasd:ElementNamedisk1/rasd:ElementName rasd:HostResourceovf:/disk/vmdisk1/rasd:HostResource rasd:InstanceID8/rasd:InstanceID rasd:Parent4/rasd:Parent rasd:ResourceType17/rasd:ResourceType /Item Item rasd:AddressOnParent2/rasd:AddressOnParent rasd:AutomaticAllocationtrue/rasd:AutomaticAllocation rasd:Connectionbridged/rasd:Connection rasd:DescriptionE1000 ethernet adapter on quot;bridgedquot;/rasd:Description rasd:ElementNameethernet0/rasd:ElementName rasd:InstanceID9/rasd:InstanceID rasd:ResourceSubTypeE1000/rasd:ResourceSubType rasd:ResourceType10/rasd:ResourceType /Item /VirtualHardwareSection AnnotationSection ovf:required="false" InfoA human-readable annotation/Info Annotation445端口漏洞服务，未做任何服务安装和修改。

Windows2003 企业版 sp2/Annotation /AnnotationSection /VirtualSystem/Envelope

Opening OVF target: e:\shared\1\Clone of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition_0.vofError:

- Line 106: Could not parse the document: 'not well-formed (invalid token)'.

OK, thanks

Hi,

I have a predefined OVA to be imported into my VMWare workstation. I understood that OVF tool utility can be used for import and export. Now i request to provide a sample command for import my OVA to VMware. As of now, 'mydc.vmx' and 'mydc-disk1.vmdk' files have been generated upon running the command, 'ovftool "E:\mydc.ova" "E:\mydc.vmx"'. If i manually open and power on this vmx it is working fine. But i am now struck on deploying this mydc.vmx into VMWare workstation through ovftool utility. Please help me in opening and powering-on this vmx in VMware workstation using OVF tool CLI.

Once this vm is on and i need to export this VM as an OVA after some settings in that machine. What is the sample OVF tool command to export as OVA?

Regards,

-Vijay

Software/Hardware used:

VMware Workstation v9.0.0 and OVF tool v3.0

Hi,

I have a predefined OVA to be imported into my VMWare workstation. I understood that OVF tool utility can be used for import and export. Now i request to provide a sample command for import my OVA to VMware. As of now, 'mydc.vmx' and 'mydc-disk1.vmdk' files have been generated upon running the command, 'ovftool "E:\mydc.ova" "E:\mydc.vmx"'. If i manually open and power on this vmx it is working fine. But i am now struck on deploying this mydc.vmx into VMWare workstation through ovftool utility. Please help me in opening and powering-on this vmx in VMware workstation using OVF tool CLI.

Once this vm is on and i need to export this VM as an OVA after some settings in that machine. What is the sample OVF tool command to export as OVA?

Regards,

-Vijay

Software/Hardware used:

VMware Workstation v9.0.0 and OVF tool v3.0

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 Linux to export the VM instead, to see what happens (like does it crash ovftool?).

I got stuck though because when I log into the vCenter I have to specify a domain\username format and I can't figure out how to pass this to ovftool in a way that doesn't cause errors.

For example, I tried things like this:

# ovftool vi://myvcenter.domain.com/DataCenterName/vm/

Username: MYDOMAIN\Administrator

Password: whatever

Didn't work, I don't think it likes the backslash.

So I tried stuffing it in a variable:

# DF="MYDOMAIN\Administrator"

# ovftool vi://"$DF"@myvcenter.domain.com/DataCenterName/vm/

Error: Curl error: Couldn't connect to server

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

CJ

Gosh, that's some omission from the OVF Tool User Guide.

So in summary you need to specify your domain account in the format domain%5caccount instead of domain\account

Here's an example to export to OVF format a VM called MyVM when you need domain authentication to your vCenter server: [This was run on a Windows client]

ovftool vi://mydomain%5cMyVMAdmin:MyPassword@MyvCenterServer.mydomain.com/MyDatacenter/vm/MyVM c:\MyOVF.ovf

And if you omit the "mydomain%5cMyVMAdmin:MyPassword@" section you will still need to use the domain%5caccount format when prompted for your credentials otherwise you will get the Curl error:

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Toolovftool vi://MyvCenterServer.mydomain.com/MyDatacenter/vm/MyVM c:\MyOVF.ovfPlease enter login information for source vi://MyvCenterServer.mydomain.com/Username: mydomain\MyVMAdminPassword: *********Error: Curl error: Couldn't resolve host nameC:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Toolovftool vi://MyvCenterServer.mydomain.com/MyDatacenter/vm/MyVM c:\MyOVF.ovfPlease enter login information for source vi://MyvCenterServer.mydomain.com/Username: mydomain%5cMyVMAdminPassword: *********Opening VI source: vi://mydomain ☺MyVMAdmin@MyvCenterServer.mydomain.com:443/MyDatacenter/vm/MyVMOpening OVF target: c:\MyOVF.ovfWriting OVF package: c:\MyOVF.ovfDisk progress: 12%

And....... as a side note with the above example it will export the VM to the "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool" directoy instead of to the C:\ directory. Come on VMware, you're better than that.

I am facing an issue. I have an ova file of size 362 MB. I am using OVFTOOL to convert ova to vmx file. I get the below error during conversion,

Also tried with option --chunkSize=200mb, but with no luck. Same error as below.

Transfer Failed

Error: System error: (Unknown exception)

Completed with errors.

In Vmware workstation 8, i get the below error when i am trying to import the OVA file with the below steps,

a). From the File menu on the VMware Workstation 8 menu bar, select Open.

b). Browse to the .ovf or .ova file and click Open and Import.

I get the below error. Anyone who could help me with this?

I am facing an issue. I have an ova file of size 362 MB. I am using OVFTOOL to convert ova to vmx file. I get the below error during conversion,

Also tried with option --chunkSize=200mb, but with no luck. Same error as below.

Transfer Failed

Error: System error: (Unknown exception)

Completed with errors.

In Vmware workstation 8, i get the below error when i am trying to import the OVA file with the below steps,

a). From the File menu on the VMware Workstation 8 menu bar, select Open.

b). Browse to the .ovf or .ova file and click Open and Import.

I get the below error. Anyone who could help me with this?

Greetings friends,

I have installed ovftool on a Linux machine with SLES 11 SP1 x86_64

I am currently experimenting on how to use ovftool, as i'm a total newbie considering it's use.

I currently have a vCenter Server 4.1, with IP 10.20.30.40. There i have the following structure:

10.20.30.40

MyDataCenter

Cluster1

Cluster2

MyVM

The datastore where the vmx is located is named NAS1

I want to convert this virtual machine to .ovf. But for starters, i would like to probe it. I'm using ovftool 2.1.0 and the user's guide says that the VMX type is supported. I thought to use vSphere Locator with Datastore (ds) query type. So, i execute the following:

ovftool vi://10.20.30.40/MyDataCenter?ds=[NAS1] MyVM/MyVM.vmx

After i'm asked for credentials, i get the following:

Please enter login information for source vi://10.20.30.40/Username: xxxxxxxPassword: *************Error: Curl error: Couldn't resolve host nameCompleted with errors

Have you seen that before? Am i doing something wrong with the syntax? Or in general, am i using ovftool the wrong way?

Thank you for your help!

Peter

To follow up on my last post, I was using a rather complex 15 character password that contained @, $, :, # and ) . Once I changed it to something simple I was able to get past the CURL errors (and on to new errors of course, but it is able to query the datastores visible to the host).

I tested simple passwords that contained one of those special characters in each run to see if there was a single character that wincurl.dll didn't like but individually they were all fine.

Hopefully this will save somebody else from trying to chase down a error that was completely unrelated to the fix

Hey.

I have some problems to create a OVF file with ovftools. The VMWare software I have is fusion under OSX but ovftool can't work on Mac. I installed that on my centos image and also windows image and then tried to convert by sharing the image folders. Surely, I modified the path in the vmx file to the shared folder.

After then, I ran the command but it reported that "it can't open the vmdk file" though the path is correct. So I doubt whether shared folder can work or not.

I want to know that whether I have to install a VMWare workstation or some else on the image first? Is that possible to directly convert fusion image to ova/ovf image? Any help appreciate. Thanks very much.

Had to delete the old VM and create again. This time I chose the option to copy the image (which takes more disk space). I then installed the VMware tools on the new VM and OVFTOOL for i386. I then typed: ovftool /mnt/hgfs/local/Documents/Virtual\ Machines.localized/VM\ i386.vmwarevm/VM\ i386.vmx ~/Desktop/VM\ i386.ovf

It worked!

what is the syntax to import a ovf file into a esxi host?

I keep getting an error when using this

ovftool d:\ovf\vm.ovf vi://user:pass@my_esxi_host

the manifest validates

ok now I am getting this error

The manifest validates

Opening VI target: vi://root@10.180.0.7:443/http://root@10.180.0.7:443/

Error: Failed to communicate with VI server

Completed with errors

When I use the ovftool to create an ovf from an existing virtual machine the only output created are the .mf and .ovf files. I was expecting a .vmdk file as well. There are no console errors and the ovftool exits with no errors. I read through the ovftool guide and did not see anything special I should be doing. I am trying to do a simple .vmx.ovf conversion with no options. Am I missing something?

Command:

/Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/VMware\ OVF\ Tool/ovftool /Users/bpage/Documents/Virtual\ Machines.localized/Windows\ Server\ 2008\ R2\ x64.vmwarevm/Windows\ Server\ 2008\ R2\ x64.vmx /Users/bpage/Documents/Virtual\ Machines.localized/AsigraDemo/AsigraDemo.ovf

Fusion Version:

6.0.1

Mac OS X Version:

10.8.5

Thx for using Fusion!

You need to modify a parameter in your .vmx file.

In my environment,the disk type in my VM is IDE, so there are sentences such as 'ide0:0.present = "TRUE" ide0:0.fileName = "Windows Server 2003-0.vmdk"' in my .vmx file, then I can create the .vmdk file. And when 'ide0:0.present = "FALSE"',the .vmdk file can't be created.

So you need to modify '****(your disk name).present="TRUE"' in your .vmx file firstly, then, try your command line,there will be the .vmdk file in your target folder.

Pls let us know if you have any further questions.

Hello all,

I wish to create a virtual machine and upload it to a secure ftp site for download.

1-The virtual machine is large as it contains OS, RDBMS, application -

2-End users are not very technical

So - I am using the ovftool to 'chunk' and compress providing the ability to transfer files and if there is a timeout or network issue, not having to start all over again.

Plus, ovftool 'packages' all the files into a tar of my many file virtual machine.

The users would download the multiple *vmdk.gz* files. Then what??

Do I need to provide a script to take the vmdk files and convert them back using ovftool into a vmx file???

Can they use VMware Player to 'open' i.e. import the ovf files... I notice there is in fact the ability to open those files

Hello all,

I wish to create a virtual machine and upload it to a secure ftp site for download.

1-The virtual machine is large as it contains OS, RDBMS, application -

2-End users are not very technical

So - I am using the ovftool to 'chunk' and compress providing the ability to transfer files and if there is a timeout or network issue, not having to start all over again.

Plus, ovftool 'packages' all the files into a tar of my many file virtual machine.

The users would download the multiple *vmdk.gz* files. Then what??

Do I need to provide a script to take the vmdk files and convert them back using ovftool into a vmx file???

Can they use VMware Player to 'open' i.e. import the ovf files... I notice there is in fact the ability to open those files

Hello all,

I am trying to use OVF tools 1.0 to create an .ovf appliance split to 4gbs. When I run the following command:

ovftool --chunkSize=4gb vi://lt;usernamegt;:lt;passwordgt;@lt;servergt;/lt;datacentergt;?ds=lt;location of .vmx filegt; e:\test\test.ovf

everything starts off fine. It will got for about 15-16% then I get this message:

"Error: unable to get NFC ticket for target disk".

I have looked online, but cannot find anything that matches this problem. I am using Windows 2k3 as the ovf creation server, and I'm in a ESX 3.5 environment. The ovf must be split into 4gb chunks (or less) so they can be put onto DVDs. Also, when it is done it deletes the files it started to create. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello all,

I am trying to use OVF tools 1.0 to create an .ovf appliance split to 4gbs. When I run the following command:

ovftool --chunkSize=4gb vi://lt;usernamegt;:lt;passwordgt;@lt;servergt;/lt;datacentergt;?ds=lt;location of .vmx filegt; e:\test\test.ovf

everything starts off fine. It will got for about 15-16% then I get this message:

"Error: unable to get NFC ticket for target disk".

I have looked online, but cannot find anything that matches this problem. I am using Windows 2k3 as the ovf creation server, and I'm in a ESX 3.5 environment. The ovf must be split into 4gb chunks (or less) so they can be put onto DVDs. Also, when it is done it deletes the files it started to create. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

So long story short I'm building a self deployment install using a Kickstart script that after the install uses wget to copyy the OVA files to the local data store and then deploys the OVAs, i have the script figured out however i can't seem to get ovftool installed on ESXi 5.5, everytime i try to run it i get the following error

env: can't execute 'bash': No such file or directory

this happens even after making the file executable, here's the whole command

~ # cd /tmp

/tmp # mkdir ovf

/tmp # cd ovf/

/tmp/ovf # wget http://10.10.10.4/OVA/VMware-ovftool-3.5.0-1274719-lin.x86_64.bundle

Connecting to 10.10.10.4 (10.10.10.4:80)

VMware-ovftool-3.5.0 100% |*******************************| 40125k 0:00:00 ETA

/tmp/ovf # chmod +x VMware-ovftool-3.5.0-1274719-lin.x86_64.bundle

/tmp/ovf # ./VMware-ovftool-3.5.0-1274719-lin.x86_64.bundle

env: can't execute 'bash': No such file or directory

/tmp/ovf # sh ./VMware-ovftool-3.5.0-1274719-lin.x86_64.bundle

env: can't execute 'bash': No such file or directory

/tmp/ovf # /bin/sh ./VMware-ovftool-3.5.0-1274719-lin.x86_64.bundle

env: can't execute 'bash': No such file or directory

The only solution I've found for running ovftool on ESXi 5.x is adding it to the ESXi boot image at (ESXi) installation using this article from Micheal Lustfield. It may not be relevant for your environment if you cannot reinstall ESXi but it works well for me for our Solutions Lab. The entire article provides more background.

Using this I can then deploy an OVA as part of the Kickstart firstboot section (example below, ovftool 4.0 only).

Travis

Creating Our Customizations: The OVF
Notice in the above, I expect /ovf to exist. We're about to make it so! First we need to aquire ovftools. The VMware website has an ovftool download.

Download the 64bit version and install it.

Now we need to make /ovf and the directories inside of it.
mkdir /tmp/ovf mkdir /tmp/ovf/tools mkdir /tmp/ovf/files
Take the installed ovftools and stick them in the tools directory.
rsync -au /usr/lib/vmware-ovftool/* /tmp/ovf/tools/ sed -i 's/bash/sh/' /tmp/ovf/tools/ovftool
We leave an empty files directory. This is where the post install part of the kickstart file will dump the OVA files.

Now we need to turn the ovf directory into ovf-00.t00.
cd /tmp tar cf ovf.tar ovf gzip -9 ovf.tar mv ovf.tar.gz /mnt/usb/ovf-00.t00
Completely Automated ESXi Deployment - Michael Lustfield

Kickstart firstboot example:

#Import VCSA VM from local datastore, complete base network configuration

/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ovf/tools/ovftool --acceptAllEulas --skipManifestCheck --noSSLVerify --diskMode=thin --name=den-VC01 --X:injectOvfEnv --powerOn --prop:vami.hostname=den-VC01.orange.corp --prop:vami.DNS.VMware_vCenter_Server_Appliance=172.17.2.1 --prop:vami.ip0.VMware_vCenter_Server_Appliance=172.17.2.11 --prop:vami.netmask0.VMware_vCenter_Server_Appliance=255.255.255.0 /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ovf/files/VCSA-5.5.ova "vi://root:password@172.17.17.17"

I downloaded ubuntu 8.10 server appliance. The .vm files have spaces in them. For example, "Ubuntu 8.10 Server.vmdk." When I run the following command to convert the files to .ovf, I get an error because of spaces in the file name:

ovftool C:\temp\VMWareAppliances\Ubuntu810Server\Ubuntu8.10Server\Ubuntu 8.10 Server.vmx C:\temp\VMWareAppliances\

Ubuntu810Server\Ubuntu8.10Server\Ubuntu 8.10 Server.ovf

Unexpected option: Server.vmx

I tried the following to resolve the "spaces" issue:

1. Remove the spaces from the file names.

2. Edit the .vmx file and removed spaces where the file names are referenced.

3. Reran ovftool to create ovf file.

4. Attempted to import the appliance and got the following error: "An error occurred while parsing the ovf descriptor: Unable to parse xml element 'Envelope'.

The ovf file is attached.

Any help in resolving the spaces issue in the file name would be greatly appreciatede.
Thanks much.

Cheers.

I'm having this same problem too on a Windows VM with no spaces in the path or file name and I used both the ovftool and the standalone converter. I'm still experimenting with different methods but one would hope these tools would work the way they were intended.

Hi,

I've just unziped the vcap-ovf-1.0.zip file and got 2 files: system.vmdk and vcap.ovf.

Trying to import the appliance with Workstation 6.5 I have the following messsage: "The OVF descriptor file could not be parsed".

Trying to use VMware-ovftool-0.9-62566 to install the OVF package and got the following message: "Extra, required XML element found: Product".

Any clue?

TIA

If you have ESX then import OVF file.Later you must export if you want to vmware worstation, vmaware server, etc......

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I am trying to build vAPP using OVFtool. I copied all the VM files(vmx, vmxf, vmsd, nvram, vmdk) required for creating OVF on to my Linux machine. Now when I try to run OVFtool, it throws "ERROR: Failed to open disk: test.vmdk"

Command I used: "*ovftool /root/test/test.vmx /root/testovf/"

These folders created on my linux machine.

Question: Is it always required to run ovftool against VM Server?

Is the process I am doing wrong. i.e: copy all files to local linux machine and then run ovftool?

Please advice.

I figured out the problem. I had to copy vm-flat.vmdk files as well. I missed it as I couldn't see it on VCenter and thought it dont exists.

To have it work all the files, vmx, vmdk, flat.vmdk, vmxf, vmsd,nvram need to be copied.

Hi

Does anyone know if there is a KB or whitepaper on IMPORT guidance with respect to the the content of the .vmx = OVF parameters ?

i.e. either an edit of the .vmx file or some options in the ovftool

There is a guide "

VMware vCenter Lab Manager to VMware vCloud

Director Migration" which i have a copy of, byt can't find the URL now, which references going through vcenter then to vcd.

We are not doing this for two reasons :

- difficulty getting IT who control permissions to do this - the fact that some Lab Manager VMs don't import to vCenter with obscure errors as well (e.g. you need to remove a network card ref or the like for it to work)

In a previous thread, Re: ovftool -diskmode IMPORT to vCD context i was told the ovftool switches are not important,

i did not see guidance on a OVFtool option that vets / reports things that vCD will not like.

We are finding IMPORT of OVF failing for no reason and be believe they are related to some items vCD does not like.

Thanks

Hi

Does anyone know if there is a KB or whitepaper on IMPORT guidance with respect to the the content of the .vmx = OVF parameters ?

i.e. either an edit of the .vmx file or some options in the ovftool

There is a guide "

VMware vCenter Lab Manager to VMware vCloud

Director Migration" which i have a copy of, byt can't find the URL now, which references going through vcenter then to vcd.

We are not doing this for two reasons :

- difficulty getting IT who control permissions to do this - the fact that some Lab Manager VMs don't import to vCenter with obscure errors as well (e.g. you need to remove a network card ref or the like for it to work)

In a previous thread, Re: ovftool -diskmode IMPORT to vCD context i was told the ovftool switches are not important,

i did not see guidance on a OVFtool option that vets / reports things that vCD will not like.

We are finding IMPORT of OVF failing for no reason and be believe they are related to some items vCD does not like.

Thanks

Hi,I have ovftool version (4.0.0).I am trying to create an ovf of a VM with extra configparameters. How do i specify theexportFlagscommand line option to allows the config parameters to translate from the VM to the ovf ? The documentation says Ineed to specify a extraconfig vSpheresource .This works fine :ovftool --allowAllExtraConfig --extraConfig:ethernet1.coalescingScheme=disabled --extraConfig:ethernet0.coalescingScheme=disabledbut this doesn't :ovftool --exportFlags=extraconfigI don't want to add the key:value in the command line , rather pick up these from the VM I am using to create the ovf.Is there something that I am missing out ?Thanks in advance

Hi,I have ovftool version (4.0.0).I am trying to create an ovf of a VM with extra configparameters. How do i specify theexportFlagscommand line option to allows the config parameters to translate from the VM to the ovf ? The documentation says Ineed to specify a extraconfig vSpheresource .This works fine :ovftool --allowAllExtraConfig --extraConfig:ethernet1.coalescingScheme=disabled --extraConfig:ethernet0.coalescingScheme=disabledbut this doesn't :ovftool --exportFlags=extraconfigI don't want to add the key:value in the command line , rather pick up these from the VM I am using to create the ovf.Is there something that I am missing out ?Thanks in advance

I have VMware Player 5.0.0. It internally has ovftool 3.0.1

I used VMware Studio2.0 to build an appliance in OVA format - It opened successfully by Player 5.0

Converted OVA - OVF again from OVF-OVA using ovftool 3.0.1. (This is just for testing. Later I need to change OVF according to my need).

Now this re-generated OVA file is not supported by Player5.0. When I tried to open OVA file, Player failed with error 'Failed to open virtual machine: Failed to open OVF descriptor.'

Is this an issue with OVFTool or Player ? Please suggest.

BTW, I have used the below commands for convertion

OVA - OVF ovftool.exe -st=OVA -tt=OVF "d:\NEW-OVA\xxxxxxx.ova" "d:\NEW-OVF\xxxxxxx.OVF"

Finally this worked when I give the file extension as '.ova' , earlier this was '.OVA'.

As I'm running player in windows I generated OVA files with .OVA extension, which couldn't get by player.

Does ovftool/player really case sensitive on file extensions ?

--Hemanth

I would like to do an OVF import from the Java VI SDK API. It looks like ovftool used to be written in Java, but I can't find the source or that. Is it available somewhere? Or there any source code examples of how to do OVF import? Or anyone know the steps that need to be taken. The only thing I have found is a reference to using CreateVM_Task, but I'm not sure how the OVF file comes into play...

Has there been any development on this topic? The Java API can do almost everything else you would think you would be able to import an OVF template without parsing the OVF descripter yourself.

EDIT: With a little more googleing i found this.... http://www.doublecloud.org/2010/04/how-to-import-and-export-ovf-packages/

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 update 2 server, using VM Converter 4.0.1.

When I try and import the virtual appliance, I get the following error:

FAILED: Unable to download the OVF file 'http: //xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/vm_ovf_backups/esxi-test-disk1.vmdk'.

I thought the --noDisks option would leave out any information relating to the disks - am I wrong?

Regards, Michael

Hi Kristian,

Thanks for your reply - that worked. It imported the appliance to my ESXi server without any reference to the old disk.

It looks like there might be some problems with the GUI (VM Converter) but scripting will work fine

Thanks again for your help, Michael

I converted a Virtual Machine installed on a ESX server to a virtual appliance (*.ovf ) file using the converter 4.0.1. Now I am trying to

convert this virtual appliance to deploy as a virtual machine on a different ESX server using same converter 4.0.1 and it is not working.

I get following error

Error: Failed to clone disk C:\Documents and Settings\*\Desktop\*\viso.vmdk on the virtual machine 'viso'. If I try importing the same

virtual appliance viso.ovf file with VMware Infrastructure client I get the following error "An error occured while parsing the OVF descriptor:

Unable to parse xml element 'Envelop'"

I was able to successfully use the 3.3 converter to convert a VM to Virtual Appliance and back to the VM.

Please suggest what might be wrong. I am stuck and need help. I will need to make this working with converter 4.0.1 only

as I will need to convert the VM to appliance from a Linux cli and I am using ovftool 1.0 for that, which also coverts the ovf

files to 1.0 format, same as converter 4.0.1 . Looks like this is issue with the format of OVF being 1.0. Please advice

Thanks,

Lachi.

Any one ran in to this issue. Please help. I am stuck

Lachi

I am using the OVFTOOL as follows:

ovftool myvm.ovf vi://DataCenter/192.168.XX.XX?ds=store

Result:

Opening OVF Source : myvm.ovf

Error: Succes

What does this mean?? =(

it says " Failed to open OVF descriptor: Cannot read file: vmimage.ovf"

do you have access to that file, premission to read it etc?

eske

I created a custom server deployment on my ESX Server 4. I would like to now package it as an OVF for distribution.

I installed ovftool on my host PC which has the VI Client software. I want to know how to add EULA license key to my OVF so that when distributed, customers would have to agree to the license agreement when deploying the OVF that I distribute.

Thanks,

I created a custom server deployment on my ESX Server 4. I would like to now package it as an OVF for distribution.

I installed ovftool on my host PC which has the VI Client software. I want to know how to add EULA license key to my OVF so that when distributed, customers would have to agree to the license agreement when deploying the OVF that I distribute.

Thanks,

Hi All,

I'm new to all of this and am attempting to import an image from an external USB drive containing a VM image. On the USB drive . I have a fresh VM ESX 3.5 installation and need to get the image from the USB drive into/onto the VM Server. I have tried converting the .vmx file on the USB drive to a .ofv file using the ovftool command, but when attempting to import the newly created file I get the below error:

An error occurred while parsing the OVF descriptor: Unable to parse xml element 'Envelope'

Any suggestions/recommendations?

Thank you!

DY

My apologies lamw. After playing with the utility I figured out what I was doing wrong. The conversion is still running, but this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you again!

I converted a Virtual Machine installed on a ESX 3.5 server to a virtual

appliance (*.ovf ) file using the OVFTOOL1.0.Now I am trying to

convert this virtual appliance to deploy as a virtual machine on a

different ESX server using same converter 4.0.1 and it is not working.

I get following error

Error: Failed to clone disk C:\Documents and

Settings\*\Desktop\*\viso.vmdk on the virtual machine 'viso'.

If I try

importing the same virtual appliance viso.ovf file with VMware Infrastructure client 2.5 I get

the following error "An

error occured while parsing the OVF descriptor: Unable to parse xml element 'Envelop'"

Please suggest what might be wrong. I am stuck and need help. I will need to make the VM from OVF file with Any UI Deployer

Thanks,

Lachi

Hi Lachi,

Thanks for letting us know. Good to know that it works without the VPN

Each search for my question leads me here; I found a similar issue, but have been getting consistent failures.

I have a server VM that is in ESXi 4.1.0 502767 that I have exported to OVF Template using vSphere 5.0, then either directly in VMware Workstation 8.0.1 528992 or using ovftool 2.1.0 (build-467744) I get failures. The first failure was "target does not support CPU validation".

Following a thread I found in this list, I attempted to comment out the CpuCompatibilitySection and deleting the .mf file. This resulted in a parse error.

My next attempt was to simply delete the CpuCompatibilitySection from the .ovf file, which it appeared to do something, created a .vmx file and reported successful completion, but when trying to open the .vmx file, I get an internal error.

I also tried to do an open of the ovf file with Workstation and it appears to complete, but fails on open with again an internal error.

I've restarted Workstation and tried to open the ovf file, which appeared to complete. Including the ovftool.log and what appears to be the session log.

I'm running VMware Workstation on an HP xw6600 workstation with 8G under Windows 7 Enterprise x64.

The goal is to export a copy of a production VM server to workstation to test a software upgrade locally as I have in the past.

If there is a better way to get a copy to my workstation, please direct me to the appropriate how-to references.

Thanks!

--alan

Here's the ovf of one of the VMs I'm having problems with. There are 2 that are giving me the same type of problems.

Thanks!

--alan

Hello,

After conversion from VMX to OVF (vmplayer use) , the OVF file does not include the information for "Network Config/Setup Type" and "Shared Folders".

Because of that, Shared Folders need to be added and network interface set to NAT on VMplayer run-time. I am unable to find any such parameters in VMware and OVF-Specs documentations.

Here are the relevant details from VMX file:

Network Connections:

ethernet0.present = "TRUE"

ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"

Shared Folders:

sharedFolder0.present = "TRUE"

sharedFolder0.enabled = "TRUE"

sharedFolder0.readAccess = "TRUE"

sharedFolder0.writeAccess = "TRUE"

sharedFolder0.hostPath = "Z:\"

sharedFolder0.guestName = "Z-Drive"

Any help appreciated.

Thanks.

it is not so easy to "just" define resource types. Resource types are also defined as a std and in this case ShardedFolder is not a "device"/hardware item so I would be needed to define somewhere else.

Each vendor can use the resourceType=0 (==other) and then use subresourceType to define a different type. We do this for soundcards and other items.

I atm working on a method to define some of the features we need to support but I'm still in the planning

So to answer you question: There are no resourceType for "Shared Folders" because it is not a device and atm we do not support on setting this in a OVF file but we are working on it.

eske

HI

I got Workstation 7.1.5

I want to migrate my VM on to Esxi5.5

I tried to convert .vmx to .ovf with Command (ovftool E:\VM\VM4\VM4.vmx E:\OVF\OVF4\VM4.ovf)

But its failing with error :

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Toolovftool E:\VM\VM4\VM4.vmx E:\OVF\OVF4\VM

4.ovf

Opening VMX source: E:\VM\VM4\VM4.vmx

Error: Failed to open disk: Windows Server 2008 x64-cl2.vmdk

Completed with errors

HI

I got Workstation 7.1.5

I want to migrate my VM on to Esxi5.5

I tried to convert .vmx to .ovf with Command (ovftool E:\VM\VM4\VM4.vmx E:\OVF\OVF4\VM4.ovf)

But its failing with error :

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Toolovftool E:\VM\VM4\VM4.vmx E:\OVF\OVF4\VM

4.ovf

Opening VMX source: E:\VM\VM4\VM4.vmx

Error: Failed to open disk: Windows Server 2008 x64-cl2.vmdk

Completed with errors

Trying to deploy ovf file using ovftool.exe from the commandline and facing the below mentioned problem.

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool.\ovftool.exe --diskMode=thin --datastor

Still facing the same issue..

Here are my system details and can anyone provide with the exact command to deploy ovf

My vcenter ndcame is "WIN-1VPBHEDRE5"

My datacenter name is "dc1"

My ESXi host is "10.110.209.214"

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool.\ovftool.exe --lax --diskMode=thin --da

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 straightforward, but every time I convert it and then try to upload it to vCloud, I get a virtual system in the ovf file being uploaded requires unrecognized virtual hardware version I have other platforms to move from as well- I hope this forum will get me where I need to be with those instances, but this error doesn't show when I search the forum. I assume that either I need a switch in there when running ovftool, or you simply can't convert a Player file into an OVF. I am testing the stand-alone convertor, stepping the output file down to VMX-9 to see if this will help. ...I notice there are a lot of questions about getting from one platform and format to another. Is there no chart somewhere with all of this info in it? That is, FROM platform on X axis, TO platform on Y axis, Yes/no/details/link to more info/etc in cells as appropriate? I was not able to find one.

Seems like we could use that... I have a very light team running the vCloud and they just aren't there for me with the conversion work I need to do- and that work is essentially all I need to do on the maintenance side of the fence. Plowing through all of the manuals and becoming an expert in what I need to do is also not an option...

ok, got it. OVFTool can't directly convert a VMWare player VMX to an OVF which can be run on vCloud (or maybe my VM is a special case) I had to convert it to VMX-9 using VMWare vCenter Standalone Convertor Then convert it to OVF using OVFTool, And once I did that it will upload and run on vCloud

Hi,

I am facing problems trying to import an ovf file using the vmware ovftool to the Virtual Center from the command line.

I have a Virtual Center with 3 ESX hosts regsistered.

From the command line,

if i execute something like this,

ovfTool.exe "C:\Documents and Settings\dev\Desktop\ovfStore\vmx_to_ovf1.ovf" "vi://[username:password@10.0.0.69/DC/host/10.0.0.199?name=vmx_from_ovfdatastore=NFS|http://username:password@10.0.0.69/DC/host/10.0.0.199?name=vmx_from_ovfdatastore=NFS]"

where

DC = DataCenter Name

10.0.0.69 = VC's IP

10.0.0.199 = One of the ESX hosts registered on VC

NFS = name of the datastore attached to the ESX host.

it fails and a warning like this is reported also

(vim.fault.OvfElementInvalidVa

lue) {

dynamicType = lt;unsetgt;,

faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,

lineNumber = 86,

name = "Connection",

value = "New Switch",

msg = "",

}

But if i remove the datastore from the destination url, it works pretty fine,

as in if i execute

ovfTool.exe "C:\Documents and Settings\dev\Desktop\ovfStore\vmx_to_ovf1.ovf" "vi://[username:password@10.0.0.69/DC/host/10.0.0.199?name=vmx_from_ovf|http://username:password@10.0.0.69/DC/host/10.0.0.199?name=vmx_from_ovf]"

the import happens perfectly well.

Besides there is no problem when i execute these commands against an ESX host..

Import happens perfectly well even if i mention a datastore or not..It

is just that things aren't working against the VC when i mention the

datastore's name in the url.

Does any of you have an idea why this is happening?

Thanks in advance...

Regards,

N Jain

njain, there are certain findings that i made with regards to the working of the ovftool..

With ESX, the ovftool works fine. No matter which NFS datastore i make a mention of in the command, the import happens properly.. And for a Virtual Center, for the first host registered with the same, things are working fine.

Is VmWare coming out with a new version of the ovftool tool which takes care of import properly?.

I have downloaded OVF tool 2.0.1 and installed in Ubuntu server 10.04 LTS version. But when I am trying to convert a .vmx to .ovf , its getting failed, I have all the files (.vmx, .vmfx, .vhdk) . Can you please let me know that does OVF tool supports Ubuntu 10.04 server edition. If not, then any other version of OVF Tool which support the same.

Utpal

Accornding to me , it will support, long back i tried its worked.

http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/ovf/ovf10/ovftool_10_userguide.pdf.

just go through the link .

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 username@myvcenter.aaa.com/"datacenter name"/vm/vmname /local/path/tostoreit/vnname.ovf

It prompts for a password, I enter the password, and it comes back with:

Opening VI source: vi://username@myvcenter.aaa.com/datacenter name/vmnameError: Locator does not refer to an object:vi://username@myvcenter.aaa.com/datacenter name/vmname

Incidentally, I get the exact same error when I try using the mac version of ovftool, and the windows version.

Please help - I know this should work. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, but I have to get this working pretty fast.

Thank you!!

Thank you for that "smart help guide". That showed me what the problem was. The virtual machine was outside of the "discovered virtual machines" folder.

When I try to fun ovftool from the terminal I get the error message

'ovftool: command not found'

i.e. m'ovftool Photo_[Work]/VirtualBoxMachines/copyxp\ Base\ V.vmx Photo_[Work]/VBConversions/xpvb.ovf'

???

Thanks.

Pedro

missing ovftool in the path.

either add

"/Applications/VMware\ OVF\ Tool/" to your path or

use

"/Applications/VMware\ OVF\ Tool/ovftool" direct

/eske

Hi everyone,

I am trying to convert a VirtualBox 3.1.4 image with 2 harddisks with OVFTool 1.00 x64 linux.

~/VirtualBox$ ovftool --noDisks SDM-MANAGER.ovf SDM-MANAGER.vmx

Opening OVF source: SDM-MANAGER.ovf

Opening VMX target: SDM-MANAGER.vmx

Error:

- '3' of device 'vim.vm.device.VirtualIDEController' was found. Only '2' allowed

I cannot seem to find the solution for the problem. Could anyone help me on this?

I have added the ovf file to the post!

Kind Regards,

Jeroen van de Hoef

Thanks Eske! That was the solution

Hello Community,

My first discussion here.

I'm trying to convert and OVA to OVF. I'm using a tool called OVFtool.

When I run it I don't get any errors but I don't see the resulting OVF or any ever file for that matter.

I would attach the file but its slightly bigger than maximum limit allow. Therefore, please link

Cisco Systems

Can someone please help me.

Regards

Carlton

I just took a look at the OFV file, and from what I understand the appliance is intended to be deployed from vCenter Server rather than on a host directly. It requires several settings to be configured in the deployment wizard. You might be able to remove the appropriate lines from the OFV file, but this would likely end up in an unusable deployment!?

Andr

Hello!

Sorry for the newbie question. But I'm not sure how to get started.

Currently I have a server running Linux with VM workstation 8.0.3

I moved one of my session from the linux server to my desktop and converted it to *.ovf with VM workstation 8.0.4 build 744019

I am trying to move my sessions to ESXi 3.5 and have found that I need the ovftool. Somewhere I read that ESXi 3.5 only supports ovf files that are version 0.9 but 1.0 is backwards comparable. I managed to find VMware-ovftool-1.0.0-166674-win.i386 and gave it a try. Several hours later I gave up.

While I was searching for solutions to my problems with ovftool-1.0 I found that ovftool-3.0.1 should work as well.

That is where I am now.

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Toolovftool.exe -ds=datastore2 "C:\Users\ron\Desktop\CorpVM\Puff Corporate VM.ovf" vi://root@192.168.1.30

Hello!

Sorry for the newbie question. But I'm not sure how to get started.

Currently I have a server running Linux with VM workstation 8.0.3

I moved one of my session from the linux server to my desktop and converted it to *.ovf with VM workstation 8.0.4 build 744019

I am trying to move my sessions to ESXi 3.5 and have found that I need the ovftool. Somewhere I read that ESXi 3.5 only supports ovf files that are version 0.9 but 1.0 is backwards comparable. I managed to find VMware-ovftool-1.0.0-166674-win.i386 and gave it a try. Several hours later I gave up.

While I was searching for solutions to my problems with ovftool-1.0 I found that ovftool-3.0.1 should work as well.

That is where I am now.

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Toolovftool.exe -ds=datastore2 "C:\Users\ron\Desktop\CorpVM\Puff Corporate VM.ovf" vi://root@192.168.1.30

Hi All,

When importing OVF using ovftool I see 2 VMs being created, one under catalog and other under "My Cloud" vApps, how can I control this feature?

My goal is to import OVF/OVA into vCloud as a vAPP VM, and configure OVF properties during the process.

Command:

ovftool --net:"eth0=10.194.191.x" --acceptAllEulas VM1.ovf "vcloud://user:password@my-cloud.external.com:443/?org=labvapp=VM102vdc=lab_datacentercatalog=Linux"

Q1) how can I controle the import to be catalog or VM?

Q2) Will this work with OVA? I tried it but no luck?

Thanks for your help

Hi All,

When importing OVF using ovftool I see 2 VMs being created, one under catalog and other under "My Cloud" vApps, how can I control this feature?

My goal is to import OVF/OVA into vCloud as a vAPP VM, and configure OVF properties during the process.

Command:

ovftool --net:"eth0=10.194.191.x" --acceptAllEulas VM1.ovf "vcloud://user:password@my-cloud.external.com:443/?org=labvapp=VM102vdc=lab_datacentercatalog=Linux"

Q1) how can I controle the import to be catalog or VM?

Q2) Will this work with OVA? I tried it but no luck?

Thanks for your help

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, not with ovftool. Changing/removing lines in .ovf file brings me a bit further but still no cigar.

The process stalls at different points, but typically I get an error about unknown OS or unsupported hardware, sometimes a parse error with no additional info.

Has anybody got this working?

The simulator is a virtual-box based Solaris appliance.

Ole Thomsen

Yes.

Despite that ovftool reports success, no disks exist in target directory after conversion.

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Toolovftool.exe --lax "c:\Temp\vbox.2010.q3.1.0 - Copy\Sun ZFS Storage 7000.ovf" c:\Temp\nyvmx\nyvmx.vmxOpening OVF source: c:\Temp\vbox.2010.q3.1.0 - Copy\Sun ZFS Storage 7000.ovfWarning: No manifest fileOpening VMX target: c:\Temp\nyvmx\nyvmx.vmxWarning: - The specified operating system identifier 'Solaris_64' (id: 81) is not supported on the selected host. It will be mapped to the following OS identifier: ''. - Hardware compatibility check is disabled. - Line 94: OVF hardware element 'ResourceType' with instance ID '3': No support for the virtual hardware device type '20'.Writing VMX file: c:\Temp\nyvmx\nyvmx.vmxDisk Transfer CompletedCompleted successfully

Ole Thomsen

I am trying to deploy a VM into ESXi 4.1 from .ova template using

ovftool. My ESXi is having two datastores:- datastore1 and datastore-2.

This is the syntax I am using:-

ovftool.exe --name=test -nw="VM Network" -ds="datastore1" CentOS.ova vi://10.102.143.30

It is shows the following messages:-

Opening OVA source: CentOS.ova

Please enter login information for target vi://10.102.143.30/

After entering the login information nothing happens. It returned me the prompt. It also doesn't print any error message.

Below is my ova file information obtained by probing:-

Opening OVA source: CentOS.ova

OVF version: 1.0

Name: CentOS

Download Size: 1.72 GB

Deployment Sizes:

+ Flat disks: 30.00 GB+

+ Sparse disks: 4.69 GB+

Networks:

+ Name: VM Network+

+ Description: The VM Network network+

Virtual Hardware:

+ Family: vmx-07+

+ Disk Types: SCSI-lsilogic+

Warning: No manifest file

Completed successfully

Im looking into this. It is strange for ovftool was tested on the platforms listed in the README.txt

Windows 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x86_x64)

Windows XP

Windows 2003

Windows Vista

Windows 2008

Windows 7

Linux 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x86_x64)

CentOS 5.x

Fedora Core 12.x

RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.x

SUSE Enterprise Server 10.x

Ubuntu Desktop 9.x

Mac OS X (64 bit)

Mac OS X 10.5

Mac OS X 10.6

eske

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 attempt to convert:

[root@provisionvrpt ~]# /usr/bin/ovftool --machineOutput --X:logToConsole=true /var/lib/vmware/Virtual\ Machines/vm/test.vmx /var/lib/vmware/Virtual\ Machines/vmovf/test.ovf[2011-08-16 00:42:55.990 B7FAC6D0 verbose 'ovftool'] Subscribing to signal: 2 (SIGINT)[2011-08-16 00:42:55.990 B7FAC6D0 verbose 'ovftool'] Subscribing to signal: 4 (SIGILL)[2011-08-16 00:42:55.990 B7FAC6D0 verbose 'ovftool'] Subscribing to signal: 6 (SIGABRT)[2011-08-16 00:42:55.990 B7FAC6D0 verbose 'ovftool'] Subscribing to signal: 8 (SIGFPE)[2011-08-16 00:42:55.990 B7FAC6D0 verbose 'ovftool'] Subscribing to signal: 15 (SIGTERM)[2011-08-16 00:42:55.990 B7FAC6D0 verbose 'ovftool'] Subscribing to signal: 1 (SIGHUP)[2011-08-16 00:42:55.990 B7FAC6D0 verbose 'ovftool'] Subscribing to signal: 3 (SIGQUIT)[2011-08-16 00:42:55.990 B7FAC6D0 verbose 'ovftool'] Subscribing to signal: 5 (SIGTRAP)[2011-08-16 00:42:55.990 B7FAC6D0 verbose 'ovftool'] Subscribing to signal: 9 (SIGKILL)[2011-08-16 00:42:55.991 B7FAC6D0 verbose 'ovftool'] Subscribing to signal: 13 (SIGPIPE)[2011-08-16 00:42:55.991 B7FAC6D0 verbose 'ovftool'] [ovfTool.cpp] Using home directory /root/.ovftool[2011-08-16 00:42:55.991 B7FAC6D0 verbose 'ovftool'] [ovfTool.cpp] OvfTool Environment:/X:fencedMode = "bridged"/X:imageReadSize = "262144"/X:logToConsole = "true"/X:maxNumberOfTermSignals = "5"/X:maxRedirects = "256"/X:maximalDeltaConfSize = "8"/X:maximalDeltaTreeSize = "6"/X:progressSmoothing = "60"/X:vimSessionTimeout = "600"/authdPortSource = "902"/authdPortTarget = "902"/machineOutput = "true"/prgPath = "/opt/vmware/ovftool"/source = "/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/vm/test.vmx"/target = "/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/vmovf/test.ovf"

[2011-08-16 00:42:56.000 B7FAC6D0 verbose 'ovftool'] [ovfTool.cpp] Done initializing libs[2011-08-16 00:42:56.000 B7FAC6D0 verbose 'ovftool'] [ovfTool.cpp] Determining source[2011-08-16 00:42:56.212 B7FAC6D0 verbose 'ovftool'] [ovfTool.cpp] Determining target[2011-08-16 00:42:57.488 B7FAC6D0 verbose 'ovftool'] Failed to open disk: /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/vm/test.vmdk[2011-08-16 00:42:57.488 B7FAC6D0 verbose 'ovftool'] Exception: The specified virtual disk needs repairError: Failed to open disk: test.vmdk[2011-08-16 00:42:57.493 B7FAC6D0 verbose 'ovftool'] Backtrace:[00] rip 050210b3[01] rip 04eb6e9e[02] rip 04e55ec2[03] rip 081c014b[04] rip 08310271[05] rip 08311b54[06] rip 0831ad24[07] rip 0831b1f7[08] rip 0831b74c[09] rip 081f871a[10] rip 0816fa45[11] rip 080cd318[12] rip 0317be9c[13] rip 080ae4f1

But when I attempt to repair the disk, I get the following:

vmware-vdiskmanager -R /var/lib/vmware/Virtual\ Machines/vm/test.vmdkNo errors were found on the virtual disk, '/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/vm/test.vmdk'.

Any help would be apprecaited. Is there a way to increase the verbosity of the logging?

Here is my ovftool version info: VMware ovftool 2.0.1 (build-260188)

Thanks!

Hi,

I just had exactly the same problem you've described.

Instead of using "vmware-vdiskmanager -R wiki-t00.vmdk" which didn't help, cause it found no errors, I tried shrinking the disk "vmware-vdiskmanager -k wiki-t00.vmdk" and after that "ovftool --machineOutput --X:logToConsole=true wiki-t00.vmx /VMs/__ovf/wiki-t00/wiki-t00.ovf" ran through like a charm.

Kate

Hi all,

I am trying to import an OVF package from XenServer into vmware workstation 7.

the conversion of the virtual appliance from xenserver successfull, but when i try to import the ovf package into workstation it says: "failed to query source for information". and if i try to convert the OVF package to .vmx using OVF Tool 1.0 an error message says: "OVF descriptor file could not be parsed"

The host operating system is Windows xp 32-bit,

the virtual appliance I am converting is Windows 7 32-bit,

OVF Tool 1.0, Vmware Workstation 7

What could be the problem?....

PS. I dnt mind changing the operating system as I am only testing the transferability of virtual machines between different vendors using OVF for my bachelor project,

Plz helpppppppppppppppppppppp!!!

Hi Agaaaaaaain

First, thnx for ur timely replies and for the trials to make it work, el7 now it DOES WORK!

I found that the drivers used in the machine were IDE in one and SCSI in the other so I converted the SCSI to IDE and BOOOM IT WORKS...

though I had to change in the xml file, delete the IDE item element Thankssss again, now i can begin writing my thesis with PEACE!

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 update 2 server, using VM Converter 4.0.1.

When I try and import the virtual appliance, I get the following error:

FAILED: Unable to download the OVF file 'http:

//xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/vm_ovf_backups/esxi-test-disk1.vmdk'.

I thought the --noDisks option would leave out any information relating to the disks - am I wrong?

Regards,

Michael

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 update 2 server, using VM Converter 4.0.1.

When I try and import the virtual appliance, I get the following error:

FAILED: Unable to download the OVF file 'http:

//xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/vm_ovf_backups/esxi-test-disk1.vmdk'.

I thought the --noDisks option would leave out any information relating to the disks - am I wrong?

Regards,

Michael

I'm trying to convert my Ubuntu 9.10 VM in VirtualBox to ESXi 3.5 u4. I exported it in VB to OVF 0.9 and now I'm trying to convert it to ESXi 3.5 u4 using ovftool and I get the error saying "Line 28: Unsupported hardware family 'vmx-06'"

Any ideas how to fix or get around this error?

TIA

I cannot believe...delete .mf and ran successfully.

Thank you.

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 appliance using Virtual Center 2.5 Update 5 I receive:

An error occurred while parsing the OVF descriptor: Unable to parse xml element 'Envelope'

I've attached the ovf file.

Any ideas?

I have a similar problem.

I downaloded the spamtitan applance in zip format and unzippped the files

there's a .ovf file a .mc file and a .vmdk

I am running esxi3.5 and spamtitan says the file contains their 32 bit version

I get "an error occurred while parsing the OVR description: Unable to parse xml element 'Envelope'

I ssh'd to my esxi box and typed ovftool but ovftool is not found.

how to I import this appliance

thanks in advance.

I installed the latest version of ovftool on my linux host and tried to convert a vmx file to ovf.

The ovf file and the new vmdk are created but the 'guestOS = "rhel5" ' is translated to rhel6Guest

"rhel5" seems to be the only one failing while conversion. Can anyone suggest a fix for this?

I have the same issue ...

Hi,

I have downloaded two vmdk files and one ovf file of vCenter Server Appliance.

Then i created one VM on hypervisor esxi 4.1 and its working fine.

Now i would like to play this ovf package under VMware Player on a physical machine. For that i have to convert this in vmx.

There are two options for that:

1. I tried using ovftool but it is not working.

2. I tried to take backup of the VM that i created on esxi 4.1 using vCenter Converter, but that also not working.

Please help me out.

Thanks in advance.

Do you mean to say:

create a new VM and then use existing vmdk file

or

create a new VM and at the time of creation use existing vmdk files.