Hi,
the subject says all I have atm. I checked the .ova file for integrity with 7Zip and it decompresses fine. What else would be needed to find out what this is about?
Thanks
Ulf
The workarounds in Deploying an OVA/OVF with the vSphere Client fails at 99% (1032863) | VMware KB may be able to get the VM imported.
Hi,
thanks for the suggestions, but as this is Workstation and not vSphere they didn't really apply.
Nevertheless I found that I could remove <DeploymentOptionSection> from the .ovf file and then it worked.
I can't say whether the issue with the syntax of that section or with Workstation but imho not able to parse a config file shouldn't crash Workstation, right?
Regards
Ulf
Hi,
any news on this? I'm sure we wouldn't want that an .ova file can crash the whole VMW-Workstation, right?
Regards
Ulf
Is there any way that we could get a copy of the .ova file?
If not, then the UI log might give us some insight. Run Workstation, go to Help > About, note the location of the UI log file. Reproduce the crash, and then attach that log file.
Hi,
sure:
- UI log:
2017-11-10T07:51:21.680+01:00| vmui| I125: CVMUIApp::MenuButtonClicked: 10004 C:\Users\foo\Documents\Virtual Machines\Ubuntu\Ubuntu 14.04.vmx
2017-11-10T07:51:27.611+01:00| vmui| I125: Spawning OVFTool:
2017-11-10T07:51:27.611+01:00| vmui| I125+ '--machineOutput' '--X:logFile=C:\Users\foo\AppData\Local\Temp\vmware-foo\ovftool.log' '--X:logLevel=verbose' 'C:\Users\foo\Documents\bar.ova'
2017-11-10T07:51:31.305+01:00| vmui| I125: OVFTool::OnExit
2017-11-10T07:51:49.478+01:00| vmui| I125: CVMUIApp::MenuButtonClicked: 11905 C:\Users\foo\Documents\Virtual Machines\Ubuntu\Ubuntu 14.04.vmx
2017-11-10T07:52:01.337+01:00| vmui| I125: CVMUIApp::MenuButtonClicked: 10004 C:\Users\foo\Documents\Virtual Machines\Ubuntu\Ubuntu 14.04.vmx
2017-11-10T07:52:03.131+01:00| vmui| I125: Spawning OVFTool:
2017-11-10T07:52:03.131+01:00| vmui| I125+ '--machineOutput' '--X:logFile=C:\Users\foo\AppData\Local\Temp\vmware-foo\ovftool.log' '--X:logLevel=verbose' 'C:\Users\foo\Documents\bar.ova'
2017-11-10T07:52:03.698+01:00| vmui| I125: OVFTool::OnExit
2017-11-10T07:52:08.304+01:00| vmui| W115: Unhandled C++ exception: class 'class std::out_of_range', details 'invalid vector<T> subscript'
(The MenuButtonClicked UI events are just wrong (or at least missleading, I never clicked these)
- ovf tool log:
2017-11-10T07:52:03.652+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [SSL_DB] Using C:\Users\foo\AppData\Roaming\VMware\ovftool_SSLDB as SSL DB
2017-11-10T07:52:03.672+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Subscribing to signal: 2 (SIGINT)
2017-11-10T07:52:03.672+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Subscribing to signal: 4 (SIGILL)
2017-11-10T07:52:03.672+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Subscribing to signal: 22 (SIGABRT)
2017-11-10T07:52:03.672+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Subscribing to signal: 8 (SIGFPE)
2017-11-10T07:52:03.672+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Subscribing to signal: 15 (SIGTERM)
2017-11-10T07:52:03.674+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Initializing progress
2017-11-10T07:52:03.674+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] OvfTool Version: VMware ovftool 4.2.0 (build-6230482)
2017-11-10T07:52:03.675+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Using home directory: C:\Users\foo\AppData\Roaming\VMware\ovftool.cfg
2017-11-10T07:52:03.676+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Curl Version: 7.50.0-DEV
2017-11-10T07:52:03.676+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Done initializing libs
2017-11-10T07:52:03.676+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Determining source
2017-11-10T07:52:03.676+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Determining target
2017-11-10T07:52:03.676+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Getting source
2017-11-10T07:52:03.676+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Parsing URL...
2017-11-10T07:52:03.676+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Constructing URL...
2017-11-10T07:52:03.676+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Parsing URL...
2017-11-10T07:52:03.676+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Constructing URL...
2017-11-10T07:52:03.676+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Constructing URL...
2017-11-10T07:52:03.677+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Opening source
2017-11-10T07:52:03.677+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] OvfPackageSourceBase::Open
2017-11-10T07:52:03.678+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Manifest file present. Parsing file.
2017-11-10T07:52:03.678+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Manifest file entry: SHA1(bar.ovf) = cbdca6a29db544f412174ef35bf97eb4b4fe187e
2017-11-10T07:52:03.678+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Manifest file entry: SHA1(bar-disk1.vmdk) = c3b6e606a864caa860910febdbc3ec978d8584a9
2017-11-10T07:52:03.678+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Manifest file entry: SHA1(certchain.pem) = 25b0c384c86afada52ebb460a9e21cedcd4c82c5
2017-11-10T07:52:03.679+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Initializing OVF rewriter...
2017-11-10T07:52:03.679+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Verifying that the files references in manifest are valid
2017-11-10T07:52:03.679+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] ApplyOvfTransformations with ovfRewriter started
2017-11-10T07:52:03.679+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] ApplyExtraConfig started
2017-11-10T07:52:03.679+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Setting extra config...
2017-11-10T07:52:03.679+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Filtering extra config
2017-11-10T07:52:03.679+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] The command line option --allowExtraConfig is specified: false
2017-11-10T07:52:03.679+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] The command line option --exportFlags=extraconfig is specified: false
2017-11-10T07:52:03.679+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] OvfPackageSourceBase parsing message bundle
2017-11-10T07:52:03.680+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Initializing OVF rewriter...
2017-11-10T07:52:03.680+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Validating files
2017-11-10T07:52:03.680+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Ovf converter is executing
2017-11-10T07:52:03.680+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Starting Ovf probe, OVF source Descriptor: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
--> <!--Generated by VMware ovftool 4.1.0 (build-2459827), UTC time: 2017-08-23T19:40:41.276575Z-->
--> <Envelope vmw:buildId="build-2459827" 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="bar-disk1.vmdk" ovf:id="file1" ovf:size="3168751616"/>
--> </References>
... (dump of the .ova file omitted)
2017-11-10T07:52:03.683+01:00 verbose OVFTool[05700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Initializing OVF rewriter...
Which doesn't seem particularly helpful as I couldn't find a log for OVF rewriter, at least not in the directory where the other log files reside.
Regards
P.S. I'm sure you can find my email from my profile here and ucast me a way to provide you more details I'm not nessecarly confident to post in a public forum.
Btw. the issue still occurs with lastest VMware workstation version 14.1.0 ...
Hi,
1. issue still occurs with Workstation 14.1.1
2. issue also occurs with VMware ESXi Embedded Host Client 1.29 (whereas VMware 6.5u1 build-in client (v1.19) is ok)
Regards
Ulf
And the issue still occurs with Workstation 15.0.1 ... Why does VMware have at least two different parsers for .ovf files?
Hi there,
I'm getting the same error as foobar4711 receives. I see it while opening Cisco Unity Connection .ova file (no matter which version).
It opens and asks to confirm End User License Agreement, then allows to name this VM and when we move to deployment options it crashes (Virtualization for Cisco Unity Connection (CUC)).
Any suggestions why that happens?
Because of that error I'm unable to built my Collaboration lab.
Best regards,
Adrian
We will take a look at the logs, thanks for the info!
Could you upgrade to latest workstation version 15.1 to have a try?
Hello Susie,
Thank you for your quick response.
Let me check this today and come back to you with my findings.
Best regards,
Adrian
Hello Susie,
My apologize for late answer.
You must have been right. When I were trying to use that OVA I might have used workstation player 15.0. Now when I've installed version 15.1 I have successfully installed another node to my lab. Thanks a lot for your quick response!
You saved my the day
Best regards,
Adrian