Importing OVA

[youngso94577]

Hi,

I am getting the following error import an OVA into VMWare workstation 7.2

[2011-04-11 09:26:09.482 'App' 4840 verbose] [imageProcessingTaskWrapper,1201] Disposing task wrapper for task VmiQuerySourceInfoTask::task{0}
[2011-04-11 09:26:09.525 'P2V' 4840 error] [task,295] Task failed: P2VError OVA_STREAM_NAME_ERROR()
[2011-04-11 09:26:09.526 'P2V' 4840 verbose] [task,339] Transition from InProgress to Failure requested
[2011-04-11 09:26:09.526 'P2V' 4840 verbose] [task,388] Transition succeeded

Does anyone have tips on how to get around this?

[youngso94577]

Hi,

Here are some notes:

The  ability to import ova file into VMWare Workstation did not work for  me.  I was wonder if anyone had issues.  I had to use a OVF tool by  VMWare to extract the files and start the *.vmx file with WMWare  Workstation.

Here are the link to the tool and the syntax you need to use.

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/getting-started/learn/ovf.html

ovftoo.exe <source location>  <destination>

example:

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool>ovftool.exe P:\youngs\Matrix\WIN-OBUPGGAVA06.ova B:\SANDBOXWKS\Matrix42

***Output***

Opening OVA source: P:\youngs\Matrix\WIN-OBUPGGAVA06.ova

Opening VMX target: B:\SANDBOXWKS\Matrix42

Writing VMX file: B:\SANDBOXWKS\Matrix42\WIN-OBUPGGAVA06(for OVA)\WIN-OBUPGGAVA06(for OVA).vmx

Disk Transfer Completed

Completed successfully

Then you have to go thru vCenter Convertor and dedicate the space.  Open the VMX file with VMWorkstation.  You are now able to use the OVA file without vSphere.  (ESX Server)

[TYACC]

Hi,

When you are using the command use always source and destination path inside the quotes.

For example

ovatool.exe  "c:\users\yoga\xxxx.ova "   "c:\users\yoga\mydcouments\virtualmachines\"

you will not get any  errors.

Cheers

Y