Cannot import OVA - no "Retry with lower specs" option exists

[T4nkcommander]

Trying to import ova 1 files that were exported from VirtualBox. Unfortunately, the following error continually occurs:

Line 21: Missing child element "VirtualHardwareSection".

The help article says I should try to retry with lower specifications, but that option does not seem to exist in 7.0.2. See picture below. 

[a_p_]

Please extract the .ovf file from the .ova package, and attach it to your next reply (compressed as a .zip archive).

André

[T4nkcommander]

See attached. 

I've tried a number of different machines at this point - this is the smallest, so I used it for testing. OVA .9 would not read, OVA 1 gives the error in my original post.

[a_p_]

I don't have access to a vCenter Server right now, but I tried the import in VMware Workstation, and after clicking the Retry button the import worked as expected.

What you may try is to extract the whole OVA package, and replace the VirtualSystemType from "virtualbox-2.2" to e.g. "vmx-16".
Note that you may need to delete the .mf file from the extracted files after editing the .ovf file.

André

[T4nkcommander]

Well, that moved our error down a few lines:

Line 66: OVF hardware element 'ResourceType' with instance ID '5': No support for the virtual hardware device type '35'.

From the OVF

Line 66:

<Item>
<rasd:AddressOnParent>3</rasd:AddressOnParent>
<rasd:AutomaticAllocation>false</rasd:AutomaticAllocation>
<rasd:Caption>sound</rasd:Caption>
<rasd:Description>Sound Card</rasd:Description>
<rasd:ElementName>sound</rasd:ElementName>
<rasd:InstanceID>5</rasd:InstanceID>
<rasd:ResourceSubType>ensoniq1371</rasd:ResourceSubType>
<rasd:ResourceType>35</rasd:ResourceType>
</Item>

[a_p_]

From the error message, I assume that removing this section should help.

André

[T4nkcommander]

That did the trick. I have successfully imported two different machines by doing the above two items.

Now to get VCenter Server to actually talk....