ovftool - What is wrong with my command?

[drheim]

I have tried everything and having trouble with this command and here is the error I am getting. I have tried "--network=VM Network" and every option I can think of and those options seems correct because the command does execute, but I get the same results. The thing is I do not currently need a network adapter installed on this machine after I bring it into the VMWare environment

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool>ovftool.exe --datastore=EVA1Disk1 --net work="Host Only" c:\Temp\Netscaler\NSVPX-ESX-9.1-101.5.ovf vi://root@128.1.60.200

Opening OVF source: c:\Temp\Netscaler\NSVPX-ESX-9.1-101.5.ovf Please enter login information for target vi://128.1.60.200/ Username: root Password: ********* Opening VI target: vi://root@128.1.60.200/ Error: No network mapping specified OVF networks: NS_NIC_1_1 VM Network Target networks: Host Only VM Network

[admin]

Hi,

I suspect the problem is that you have two networks in your OVF. In that case, you should be able to deploy the OVF by using the options --net: NS_NIC_1_1="Host Only" and --net:"VM Network"="Host Only" (if you want to map both of the OVF networks to the "Host Only" network).

- Kristian

[drheim]

I think you are really close and that may be what it is looking for, but I tried those options using every syntax I can think of and still not getting it. Thanks for the advice

[admin]

Could you paste the command you are trying with and the output you then get?

Thanks!

- Kristian

[drheim]

Here is just a few of them, but I tried everything I could think of.

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool>ovftool.exe --datastore=EVA1Disk1 --netw

ork=NS_NIC_1_1="Host Only" --network="VM Network"="Host Only" c:\Temp\Netscaler\N

SVPX-ESX-9.1-101.5.ovf vi://root@128.1.60.200

Error: Unsupported protocol: Only c:\Temp\Netscaler\NSVPX-ESX-9.1-101.5.ovf vi:/

/root@128.1.60.ovf

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool>ovftool.exe --datastore=EVA1Disk1 --netw

ork:NS_NIC_1_1="Host Only" c:\Temp\Netscaler\NSVPX-ESX-9.1-101.5.ovf vi://root@1

28.1.60.200

Unknown option: `network:NS_NIC_1_1'

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool>ovftool.exe --datastore=EVA1Disk1 --netw

ork NS_NIC_1_1="Host Only" c:\Temp\Netscaler\NSVPX-ESX-9.1-101.5.ovf vi://root@1

28.1.60.200

Unexpected option: vi://root@128.1.60.200

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool>

[fjd01]

HI,

This is the command that worked for me:

ovftool -ds=<Datastore> --net:"VM Network"=<Target VM Network> --net:NS_NIC_1_1=NS_NIC_1_1 --name=<Appliance Name> <Path to the OVF source>\<OVF source file> vi://<user>@<VCenterServer>/?dns=<ESX FQDN>

Hope this help.

[ben_jam]

Nice one. That indeed did help very much. How on earth do Citrix get away witth their example command line of ovftool.exe c:\ovf file vi://ip address - argh.

[ashehade]

Hello,

Can you please help in this one?

I am tying to convert an OVF file to an ISO. I am using OVFtool for windows, but when I execute the command I get the following:

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool>ovftool C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool\xxx C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool\
Error: Unexpected option: OVF
Completed with errors

where "xxx" is the OVF file.

I have checked the command reference and other guides but nothing till now. can you please update me if there is something wrong with my command?

Thanks a lot

[admin]

Hi ashehade

You need to put quotes around paths that contain spaces, such as the path to the OVF file (aka the source locator). Here is an example:

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool>ovftool "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool\xxx"