I have 2 systems running Workstation 16.1.1, one is Fedora 33 the other Fedora 34. On the F33 system I can import an OVF file without errors. On the F34 system I can't and it silently fails. I can find nothing in the logs that indicate why it fails. After I did a little checking on the system where it works the OVF file shows up with the following properties:
Type: Open Virtualization Format (application/x-virtualbox-ovf)
On the system where it fails:
Type: XML document (application/xml)
In fact on the system where it works I have VirtualBox installed, but not on the one where it fails. Is there something I need to do to be able to import ovf files?
According to the VirtualBox documentation:
Oracle VM VirtualBox creates file type associations automatically for any OVF and OVA files on your host OS.
Any help is appreciated.
On a side note the ovftool fails on F34 as follows:
/usr/lib/vmware-ovftool/ovftool.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libnsl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
this is because it has a dependency on the libnsl package which is not installed by default. What is installed by default is the libnsl2 package.
Paolo
