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tdrakes
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‎04-14-2024 04:06 PM

Vmware workstation will not boot Cisco FMC guest operating system operating system not found

I have downloaded FMC(firepower management center virtual disk} and I cannot open the operating system in Vmware workstation. Vmware workstation is not booting FMC virtual disk. Message encountered " no operating system found".

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WillDavies15
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‎04-16-2024 03:57 AM

I had the same issue and found that is was due to using Windows Explorer when extracting the tar.gz file downloaded from Cisco. I redownloaded the tar.gz then unzipped using 7-Zip. I was then able to Deploy the OVF selecting all 3 files; .ovf, .mf & .vmdk

 

Cheers, Will

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tdrakes
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‎04-16-2024 07:00 AM

Hello Will, the issue was I downloaded the FMC upgrade and was trying to open the install package.  I now downloaded the correct FMC install package 7.2.6 and tried to open in VMWARE workstation 17 but now getting message below:

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Also I attached ovftool.log:    Found message in ovfrtool.log at bottom of the log that says: "Panic unable to allocate memory".  The FMCv virtual install package will not open in VMWARE Workstation 17.

Any thoughts?

 

ovftool.log
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