Anyone using OVF extensively?
Environment...
ESXi 4 box, with a single very simple VM, just a VM, no disks, nothing more than a VM shell really.
ESXi 3.5 U 4 running a single VM, which has vCenter 4 running in it. Windows 2008, 32, 1.5GB RAM for VM
Windows XP SP3 fully patched desktop to run OVF CLI tool for Windows and VIClient 4
Attempted...
1) From VI client, try to use GUI to Export OVF Template, VirtualCenter Service stops.
2) From Windows XP SP3 full patched desktop, where Windows OVF1.0 Tool installed, Attempt to do OVF export as attempted above, generates an unexpected exception trap. vCenter 4 VMware Virtual Center server stops.
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool>ovftool "vi://administrator@192.168.15.3/Home Office/vm/Test01" ./Test01.OVF
Please enter login information for source vi://192.168.15.3/
Username: administrator
Password: *********
Opening VI source: vi://administrator@192.168.15.3/Home Office/vm/Test01
Error: The specified network name is no longer available.
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.
Terminate process signal received - aborting operation
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool>
