OVF 0.9 import fails => Fixed in SVN

[Akenine]

Tried importing icinga image:

​http://sourceforge.net/projects/icinga/files/icinga-virtual-image/1.8.1/virtualbox-icinga-1.8.1-0.3-demo-centos6.ova/download

Error Message:
Failed to import appliance C:\...\virtualbox-icinga-1.8.1-0.3-demo-centos6.ova.

Error reading "C:\...\virtualbox-icinga-1.8.1-0.3-demo-centos6.ova": element "Section" has no "type" attribute, line 18.

Result Code: VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80BB0004)
Component: Appliance
Interface: IAppliance {3059cf9e-25c7-4f0b-9fa5-3c42e441670b}

[Akenine]

OVF Envelope extracted from image

[Gabriele Vivinetto]

Even if I export a native Virtualbox Virtual MAchine as OVF 0.9, I can't import it back. Same error:

• Create a virtual machine in virtualbox
• Export it as ovf 0.9
• Try to import

[Akenine]

There is a thread about this problem in the forum:

​https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=57889

It looks like xml-parsing just fails for OVF 0.9, even if the envelopes conform to the standard

[Gabriele Vivinetto]

Any news abot this ?

[Frank Mehnert]

Finally found and fixed the problem. The fix will be part of the next maintenance release. Thanks for the report!

[Frank Mehnert]

Fix is part of VBox 4.3.8.

[ak2766]

I've recently tried to import an appliance (Fortigate) but I'm getting the error listed above, but with Virtualbox 4.3.12 - is there a regression?

Failed to import appliance /vmachs/fortinet/fortigate1-64bit/Fortigate-VM64.hw07_vmxnet2.ovf.

Could not open the medium storage unit '/vmachs/fortinet/fortigate1-64bit/fortios.vmdk'.

VD: error VERR_INTERNAL_ERROR opening image file '/vmachs/fortinet/fortigate1-64bit/fortios.vmdk' (VERR_INTERNAL_ERROR).

Details:
Result Code: 
VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80BB0004)
Component: 
Appliance
Interface: 
IAppliance {3059cf9e-25c7-4f0b-9fa5-3c42e441670b}