From a VBox OVF 0.9 to VMWare image with 2 harddisks

[Faellah]

Hi everyone,

I am trying to convert a VirtualBox 3.1.4 image with 2 harddisks with OVFTool 1.00 x64 linux.

~/VirtualBox$ ovftool --noDisks SDM-MANAGER.ovf SDM-MANAGER.vmx

Opening OVF source: SDM-MANAGER.ovf

Opening VMX target: SDM-MANAGER.vmx

Error:

- '3' of device 'vim.vm.device.VirtualIDEController' was found. Only '2' allowed

I cannot seem to find the solution for the problem. Could anyone help me on this?

I have added the ovf file to the post!

Kind Regards,

Jeroen van de Hoef

[admin · Accepted solution]

Hi Jeroen

From a look on the OVF you have provided I can see that you have 1 IDE controller using "address = 1" this is translated to be IDE controller 1 on the motherboard. As IDE controllers are default devices you will automatic get IDE controller at address 0 defined e.g. IDE controller 0 on the motherboard.

secondly you define the CD-ROM to have use AddressOnParent=0 which is the same AddressOnParent disk 1 with InstanceId 8 have.

So a fix for your OVF is to define a second ide controller as

<Item>

<rasd:Caption>ideController0</rasd:Caption>

<rasd:Description>IDE Controller</rasd:Description>

<rasd:InstanceId>20</rasd:InstanceId>

<rasd:ResourceType>5</rasd:ResourceType>

<rasd:ResourceSubType>PIIX4</rasd:ResourceSubType>

<rasd:Address>0</rasd:Address>

<rasd:BusNumber>0</rasd:BusNumber>

</Item>

map the disk to use this (you can do this by changing the Parent=2) ide controller.

hope it helps

eske

[Faellah]

Thanks Eske! That was the solution