OVA file generated using OVFTool not played by Player5.0

[hemantha2011101]

I have VMware Player 5.0.0. It internally has ovftool 3.0.1

I used VMware Studio2.0 to build an appliance in  OVA format  - It opened successfully by Player 5.0

Converted OVA -> OVF again from OVF->OVA using ovftool 3.0.1. (This is just for testing. Later I need to change OVF according to my need).

Now this re-generated OVA file is not supported by Player5.0. When I tried to open OVA file, Player failed with error 'Failed to open virtual machine: Failed to open OVF descriptor.'

Is this an issue with OVFTool or Player ? Please suggest.

BTW, I have used the below commands for convertion

OVA -> OVF      ovftool.exe -st=OVA -tt=OVF "d:\NEW-OVA\xxxxxxx.ova" "d:\NEW-OVF\xxxxxxx.OVF"

OVF -> OVA      ovftool.exe -st=OVF -tt=OVA "d:\NEW-OVF\xxxxxxx.ovf" "d:\NEW-OVA\xxxxxxx.OVA"

Without -st, -tt options, ovftool is assuming the VMX format.

Thanks in advance

--hemanth

[hemantha2011101]

Finally this worked when I give the file extension as '.ova' , earlier this was '.OVA'.

As I'm running player in windows I generated OVA files with .OVA extension, which couldn't get by player.

Does ovftool/player really case sensitive on file extensions ?

--Hemanth