Deploy vm from ovf file

[Sasa2]

Hi, i use ovftool and i am trying to vm deploy on esxi 7, i execute:

#ovftool.exe -ds="Datastore2 SATA" -n=vmtest "c:\testovf\test" vi://user:password@ip_esxi

Opening OVF source: c:\testovf\test
Error: Failed to open OVF descriptor

Completed with error

the export of the vm from .vmx to .ovf was successful and was done with ovftool

Thanks.

[Sasa2]

I add some logs which I hope will be of help:

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool>ovftool.exe --X:logLevel=trivia --X:logToConsole -ds="DAT3 SATA" -n=vmtestovf "c:\testovf\test" vi://user:password@ip_esx

2021-03-23T19:45:05.901+01:00 verbose OVFTool[13500] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [SSL_DB] Using C:\Users\Utente\AppData\Roaming\VMware\ovftool_SSLDB as SSL DB

2021-03-23T19:45:05.922+01:00 verbose OVFTool[13500] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Subscribing to signal: 2 (SIGINT)

2021-03-23T19:45:05.923+01:00 verbose OVFTool[13500] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Subscribing to signal: 4 (SIGILL)

2021-03-23T19:45:05.923+01:00 verbose OVFTool[13500] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Subscribing to signal: 22 (SIGABRT)

2021-03-23T19:45:05.923+01:00 verbose OVFTool[13500] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Subscribing to signal: 8 (SIGFPE)

2021-03-23T19:45:05.923+01:00 verbose OVFTool[13500] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Subscribing to signal: 15 (SIGTERM)

2021-03-23T19:45:05.923+01:00 verbose OVFTool[13500] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Initializing progress

2021-03-23T19:45:05.924+01:00 verbose OVFTool[13500] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] OvfTool Version: VMware ovftool 4.4.1 (build-16812187)

2021-03-23T19:45:05.924+01:00 verbose OVFTool[13500] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Using home directory:

2021-03-23T19:45:05.930+01:00 verbose OVFTool[13500] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Curl Version: 7.69.1

2021-03-23T19:45:05.930+01:00 verbose OVFTool[13500] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Done initializing libs

2021-03-23T19:45:05.930+01:00 verbose OVFTool[13500] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Determining source

2021-03-23T19:45:05.933+01:00 verbose OVFTool[13500] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Determining target

2021-03-23T19:45:05.933+01:00 verbose OVFTool[13500] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Getting source

2021-03-23T19:45:05.934+01:00 verbose OVFTool[13500] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Parsing URL...

Opening OVF source: c:\testovf\test

2021-03-23T19:45:05.935+01:00 verbose OVFTool[13500] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Opening source

2021-03-23T19:45:05.935+01:00 verbose OVFTool[13500] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] OvfPackageSourceBase::Open

2021-03-23T19:45:05.936+01:00 verbose OVFTool[13500] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Failed to open OVF descriptor: Failed to read from file: test.ovf

Error: Failed to open OVF descriptor

2021-03-23T19:45:05.942+01:00 verbose OVFTool[13500] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Backtrace:

--> [backtrace begin] product: VMware Workstation, version: e.x.p, build: build-16812187, tag: OVFTool, cpu: x86_64, os: windows, buildType: release

--> backtrace[00] vmacore.dll[0x00213F83]

--> backtrace[01] vmacore.dll[0x000648D0]

--> backtrace[02] vmacore.dll[0x0005F3C6]

--> backtrace[03] vmacore.dll[0x00025B46]

--> backtrace[04] ovftool.exe[0x000A89C7]

--> backtrace[05] ovftool.exe[0x003B130E]

--> backtrace[06] VCRUNTIME140.dll[0x00001030]

--> backtrace[07] VCRUNTIME140.dll[0x000043A8]

--> backtrace[08] ntdll.dll[0x000A12F6]

--> backtrace[09] ovftool.exe[0x0012CD12]

--> backtrace[10] ovftool.exe[0x000C2816]

--> backtrace[11] ovftool.exe[0x000C3681]

--> backtrace[12] ovftool.exe[0x00379268]

--> backtrace[13] KERNEL32.DLL[0x00017034]

--> backtrace[14] ntdll.dll[0x00052651]

--> [backtrace end]

Completed with errors