Ovftool Error Failed To Open File
Contents |
here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us ovftool vmx to ovf Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers failed to open ovf descriptor or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow how to convert vmdk to ova Community Stack Overflow is a community of 6.2 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up convert VMX to OVF using OVFtool up vote
Ovftool Convert Ova To Vmx
2 down vote favorite I am trying to convert VMX to OVF format using OVFTool as below, however it gives error: C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool>ovftool.exe vi://vcenter.com:port/folder/myfolder/abc.vmx abc.ovf Error: Failed to open file: https://vcenter.com:port/folder/myfolder/abc.vmx Completed with errors Please let me know if you have any solution. vmware-tools ovf share|improve this question edited Jun 8 '15 at 18:00 Mike 73021123 asked Jun 8 '15 at 17:04 Aditi S 1614 ovftool convert ovf to ova add a comment| 3 Answers 3 active oldest votes up vote 2 down vote I had a similar problem with OVFTool trying to export to OVF format. Export failed: Failed to open file: C:\Virtual\test\test.vmx. First, I opened .VMX file in editor (it's a text file) and made sure that settings like scsi0:0.fileName = "test.vmdk" nvram = "test.nvram" extendedConfigFile = "test.vmxf" mention proper file names. Then I noticed this line: .encoding = "windows-1251" This is Cyrillic code page, so I modified it to use Western code page .encoding = "windows-1252" Then, running OVFTool gave a different error Export failed: Failed to open disk: test.vmdk. To fix it I had to open .VMDK file in HEX editor (because it's usually a big binary file), found there the string encoding = "windows-1251" (it's somewhere in the beginning of the file), and replaced "1251" with "1252". And it did the trick! share|improve this answer answered Mar 18 at 20:45 Vladimir Shutow 376212 1 I had a similar situation, however, in my case the encoding was already windows-1252. I found that a change to UTF-8 did the trick for me. –user926600 Aug 31 at 3:12 add a comment| up vote 1 down vote T
working on a virtual machine that I wanted converted to OVA/OVF format so that I could distribute it to the field at Juniper. I downloaded the OVF Tool but note that VMware Fusion also comes with ovftool linux the OVF Tool. In this blogpost I will be using the OVF Tool
Ovftool Mac
in "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/VMware OVF Tool” directory. This blog post will cover a fancy way to convert your VM as well
Ovftool Examples
as looking at the errors I received. When I ran the "ovftool" command, I received an error… "Failed to open file: /XX/XX/XX/XX.vmx". I tried running it as sudo and received the error… http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30715081/convert-vmx-to-ovf-using-ovftool "SSLLoadSharedLibraries: Failed to load OpenSSL libraries…" Note1: in these examples I used "-acceptAllEulas" but I was told this was not necessary. Note2: In the sudo example, I also did not include a filename at the end of the command, but this is not what caused the error because… Note3: I was told that if I was going to run as sudo, I need to move the https://commondenial.com/2015/04/29/vmware-fusion-7-1-1-ovf-tool-error-drag-drop/ libraries in my directory, up one level. Argh… I was frustrated because I also could not run the command from the actual VMware OVF Tool download. I posted the issue on the VMware Communities and I sent the concern out on Twitter. Thank you to @CXI & @seanluce for providing input. The @VMwareFusion twitter handle got back to me as well and allowed me to send an email to support… Talk about #PewPew! I am thankful! What did I learn as the nice Technical Support Engineer fixed my issue…? I did not have the right path to my .vmx file. Yup… it is always the simple thing (like my grey screen of death issue Fusion issue). This also means that all the blogs I checked out also did not have it correctly. You know what else I learned…? You can drag and drop in to the command line. Now I am sure you are saying “You didn’t know that…?” (which personally I think is one of the rudest things you can say to someone) but clearly I did not know that. I have never seen anyone do that… anywhere… anytime. Which also means that someone else out the
board serves as an open discussion and support collaboration point for Nagios XI. NOTE: Nagios XI customers should use the Customer Support forum to obtain expedited support. https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6243&p=28173 Post a reply 4 posts • Page 1 of 1 ovftool Failed to open file: nagiosxi.vmx by johnemac » Wed Jun 20, 2012 9:22 pm Hi, First post, new to Nagios. I've https://blogs.oracle.com/fatbloke/entry/moving_a_vmware_vm_to got nagiosxi running fine in VMware Fusion. I'm trying to convert it and load it on ESXi. Whenever I run the ovftool ./ovftool /nagiosxi.vmwarevm/nagiosxi.vmx nagios/nagiosxi-2011r2.1.ovfI get an the error: Error: Failed to failed to open file: nagiosxi.vmxCompleted with errorsWhen I try the vCenter Converter Standalone Client I get an the error:Unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machineAnybody have luck converting nagiosxi for ESXi?Thanks!-- jmca johnemac Posts: 4Joined: Wed Jun 20, 2012 9:02 pm Top Re: ovftool Failed to open file: nagiosxi.vmx by lmiltchev » Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:41 am ./ovftool /nagiosxi.vmwarevm/nagiosxi.vmx nagios/nagiosxi-2011r2.1.ovfI get failed to open an the error:Error: Failed to open file: nagiosxi.vmxCompleted with errorsAre you sure this is the correct path?When I try the vCenter Converter Standalone Client I get an the error:Unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machineThere are some reports about issues with the newest Standalone Converter. Try using version 4.3 instead of 5.0.I am not sure if you've come across this link:http://library.nagios.com/library/products/nagiosxi/tutorials/247-using-the-virtual-machine-with-vmware-esxHope this helps. Be sure to check out our Knowledgebase for helpful articles and solutions! lmiltchev Bug Hunter Extraordinaire Posts: 8961Joined: Mon May 23, 2011 12:15 pm Top Re: ovftool Failed to open file: nagiosxi.vmx by johnemac » Thu Jun 21, 2012 8:16 pm Thanks for the reply. The paths were a little off, but that's my typo. I was trying to edit them to make them easier to read. The command works on other .vmx files without a problem. It's only the nagiosxi vm that it fails on.I downloaded and tried the 4.3 standalone converter. I watched the tutorial. They upload directly to the ESXi server, I am trying to save to a file. I get the same error about unable to identify the hardw
VirtualBox (Part 1): Oracle Enterprise Linux By Fat Bloke on Feb 09, 2010 There are a growing number of people asking the question: how do you move a VMware virtual machine to VirtualBox. So it is about time the Fat Bloke rolled up his sleeves and showed us how. (BTW you can click on screenshots below to magnify) People typically want to do this because they have spent time installing a guest OS together with a software stack and they don't really want to go thru all this again. Butmoving a vm from one virtualization platform to another is analogous in the real world to unplugging a hard drive(s) from one computer and plugging it into a different manufacturer's computer. You may find that the guest operating system gets upset when it boots up and sees virtual hardware which is different than it was expecting. Different guest operating systems react differently to this situation (Linux is typically more accommodating than Windows in this respect). In fact some guest operating systems get so upset, they may BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) on you. Secondly, some of the software that you have installedabove the OS, such as VMware Tools, may also be relying on specific virtual hardware. So the Fat Bloke's First Rule of VM Migration is: Don't, if you can help it. If you can create a new vm from scratch on the new virtualization platform, you probably should. That way the guest OS installs the right drivers for your particular virtual hardware, and you are not left with orphaned software which needs a specific virtualization layer. That said, there are still going to be people looking to avoid a complete reinstallation and willing to live dangerously, so let's discuss what is possible. Note that because different guests behave so differently we're going to focus on one guest OS in this blog: Oracle Enterprise Linux, and we'll move it from VMware Workstation 7 to VirtualBox 3.1. Here is our start state, the vm running in VMware Workstation 7 on Windows 7: Step 1 - Preparing to Migrate It's a good idea to take a copy of the vm that we're trying to migrate just in case you make a mess of things. With VMware Workstation you can clone a vm to do this