I tried to deploy our product in vCenter v6.5 via ova, however, deploy failed with error reported in wizard, saying "PARSE_ERROR: Parse error: Unexpected character 'v' (code 118) in prolog, expected '<' at [row,col,system-id]: [1,1,"descriptor.ovf"]."
It seems that there is something not parsed in the ovf descriptor prolog, what is it exactly? I copied part of my ovf file below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Envelope xml:lang="en-US" xmlns="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1" xmlns:ovf="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1" xmlns:ovfstr="http://schema.dmtf.org/ovf/strings/1" xmlns:rasd="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/CIM_ResourceAllocationSettingData" xmlns:vmw="http://www.vmware.com/schema/ovf" xmlns:vssd="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/CIM_VirtualSystemSettingData" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1 ../ovf-envelope.xsd">
<!--Reference of all external files-->
<References>
<File ovf:href="OS--4.2.0.8731291-disk1.vmdk" ovf:id="file1" ovf:size="2293100032"/>
</References>
<DiskSection ovf:required="false">
<Info>Virtual disk information</Info>
<Disk ovf:capacity="22" ovf:capacityAllocationUnits="byte * 2^30" ovf:diskId="vmdisk1" ovf:fileRef="file1" ovf:format="http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/specifications/vmdk.html#streamOptimized" ovf:populatedSize="2289434624"/>
</DiskSection>
<NetworkSection>
<Info>The list of logical networks</Info>
<Network ovf:id="0" ovf:name="Management Network">
<Description>Network for the management port(s)</Description>
</Network>
.......
