Cannot export valid vmdk and ovf file from the web-client.

[DavidBo]

vSphere Hypervisor 6.5u1

Cannot export valid vmdk and ovf file from the web-client.

Yes the files are downloaded by Firefox but as soon I try to import the vm to Oracle VM Virtual Box or VMware Workstation Pro I get an error message.

Oracle VM Virtual Box was most informative. It wrote

Result Code: VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80BB0004)

Component: ApplianceWrap

Card: IAppliance {8398f026-4add-4474-5bc3-2f9f2140b23e}

VMware Workstation Pro just wrote "System error: (Unknown exception)."

The VM seems to work perfectly on the hypervisor

Maybe the VM is configured in a wrong way.

[jasnyder]

Try ovftool to export it.  ovftool Docs and download here.

Command:

ovftool --allowExtraConfig vi://administrator@vsphere.local:<password>@<vcenter-ip>/<datacenter>/vm/<path-to-vm>/<vm-name> <local path to place exported OVF>

This will write the exported OVF to the local target directory.  It will be interesting to see if you get different results that way.

[vijayrana968]

This is known issue, update ESXi embedded host client version to latest and then try.