Error importing OVA/OVF file into Workstation Pro

opjs · ‎08-06-2018

I am currently running Vmware Workstation Pro 14 on Fedora 28.

Whenever I try to open an ovf/ova file it fails. The GUI does not give any indication as to why this might be, and instead silently fails. I checked the vmware-ui logs and found the below:

log file: /tmp/vmware-user/vmware-ui-4479.log

2018-08-06T12:40:47.635+01:00| vmui| I125: Spawning OVFTool:

2018-08-06T12:40:47.635+01:00| vmui| I125+ '--machineOutput' '--X:logFile=/tmp/vmware-user/ovftool.log' '--X:logLevel=verbose' '--allowExtraConfig' '/run/media/user/NS Linux/VM/kali-linux-2018.2-vm-amd64.ova'

2018-08-06T12:40:47.690+01:00| vmui| I125: OVFTool::OnExit

2018-08-06T12:40:47.690+01:00| vmui| W115: OVFTool::OnUnexpectedExit: Unknown error with output:

2018-08-06T12:40:47.690+01:00| vmui| W115:

2018-08-06T12:40:48.489+01:00| vmui| I125: Spawning OVFTool:

2018-08-06T12:40:48.489+01:00| vmui| I125+ '--machineOutput' '--X:logFile=/tmp/vmware-user/ovftool.log' '--X:logLevel=verbose' '--allowExtraConfig' '/run/media/user/NS Linux/VM/kali-linux-2018.2-vm-amd64.ova'

2018-08-06T12:40:48.539+01:00| vmui| I125: OVFTool::OnExit

2018-08-06T12:40:48.539+01:00| vmui| W115: OVFTool::OnUnexpectedExit: Unknown error with output:

2018-08-06T12:40:48.539+01:00| vmui| W115:

The referenced log file 'tmp/vmware-user/ovftool.log' does not exist on my machine though.

Has anybody else experienced this issue or have any suggestions that might help me fix it?

Many thanks in advance.

opjs · ‎08-09-2018

It turns out that VMware logs didn't give any feedback because OVFtool was not executing correctly. This was discovered when running OVFtool from CLI where it became apparent that a dependency libnsl was missing. After installing it and running OVFtool, it started working properly.

Solution:

Checked whether OVFTool runs from CLI.

Installed libnsl

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FTNT_AJH · ‎11-09-2018

This issue exists in Fedora 29 as well. Installing libnsl resolved the issue.

cosmic665 · ‎02-22-2020

This issue exists in Fedora 30 as well. libnsl was already installed. So here is the command I used instead:

ln -s /usr/lib64/libnsl.so.2 /usr/lib64/libnsl.so.1

dump · ‎03-30-2020

It happened in fedora 32

* libnsl2 is installed by default

Install it libnsl solved the problem

Regards.,

Felipe198520111 · ‎05-26-2020

This cmd line solved my problem, thank you very much!

rexfordnyrk · ‎05-10-2023

The same problem exists for Workstation Pro 17.0.1 on Fedora 38. You can fix it using the solution from the link below.

https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/cannot-import-an-OVF-file-into-Workstation-...