Exported appliances with more than 10 disks fail to import

[isharacomix]

I generate an appliance with 12 VMs and export it as an OVA package. Whenever I attempt to import the OVA, I get an error. However, if I extract the OVA and then attempt to import the OVF that was inside, it succeeds.

The error I get when importing the OVA with 12 VMs is:

Progress state: NS_ERROR_FAILURE
VBoxManage: error: Appliance import failed
VBoxManage: error: <vbox:Machine> element in OVF contains a medium attachment for the disk image c3bc5986-6257-4534-85f4-caa6190e67d4 but the OVF describes no such image
VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component ApplianceWrap, interface IAppliance
VBoxManage: error: Context: "RTEXITCODE handleImportAppliance(HandlerArg *)" at line 886 of file VBoxManageAppliance.cpp

I think it might have something to do with sorting the files by alphanumeric value. If I add a leading zero to all of the vdisk files with a single digit, replace the filenames appropriate section in the OVF file, and then re-package the OVA, it works.

  <References>
    <File ovf:href="Appliance-disk01.vmdk" ovf:id="file1"/>
    <File ovf:href="Appliance-disk10.vmdk" ovf:id="file2"/>
    <File ovf:href="Appliance-disk11.vmdk" ovf:id="file3"/>
    <File ovf:href="Appliance-disk12.vmdk" ovf:id="file4"/>
    <File ovf:href="Appliance-disk02.vmdk" ovf:id="file5"/>
    <File ovf:href="Appliance-disk03.vmdk" ovf:id="file6"/>
    <File ovf:href="Appliance-disk04.vmdk" ovf:id="file7"/>
    <File ovf:href="Appliance-disk05.vmdk" ovf:id="file8"/>
    <File ovf:href="Appliance-disk06.vmdk" ovf:id="file9"/>
    <File ovf:href="Appliance-disk07.vmdk" ovf:id="file10"/>
    <File ovf:href="Appliance-disk08.vmdk" ovf:id="file11"/>
    <File ovf:href="Appliance-disk09.vmdk" ovf:id="file12"/>
  </References>

[Socratis]

Just to be clear: are you sure that you didn't want to say "12 VMDKs" instead of "12 VMs"?

[isharacomix]

Replying to socratis:

Just to be clear: are you sure that you didn't want to say "12 VMDKs" instead of "12 VMs"?

Ah yes, that would be more accurate. Twelve VMs, each with one VMDK.

[VVP]

hello, would you run "tar -tvf" for your repacked OVA package and upload output here? The uploaded Appliance.ovf is from the repacked OVA, isn't it?

[isharacomix]

Replying to VVP:

hello, would you run "tar -tvf" for your repacked OVA package and upload output here? The uploaded Appliance.ovf is from the repacked OVA, isn't it?

Correct. The OVF I uploaded is after my modification. Below find the tar -tvf output of both the old and the new OVAs.

~/Documents/vboxtesting$ tar -tvf old.ova 
-rw-------  0 someone someone 201032 Jan 18 17:53 Appliance.ovf
-rw-------  0 someone someone 500916224 Jan 18 17:53 Appliance-disk1.vmdk
-rw-------  0 someone someone 545779712 Jan 18 17:54 Appliance-disk10.vmdk
-rw-------  0 someone someone 546102784 Jan 18 17:55 Appliance-disk11.vmdk
-rw-------  0 someone someone 953539584 Jan 18 17:56 Appliance-disk12.vmdk
-rw-------  0 someone someone 520024576 Jan 18 17:57 Appliance-disk2.vmdk
-rw-------  0 someone someone 519927808 Jan 18 17:58 Appliance-disk3.vmdk
-rw-------  0 someone someone 489126912 Jan 18 17:58 Appliance-disk4.vmdk
-rw-------  0 someone someone 545768448 Jan 18 17:59 Appliance-disk5.vmdk
-rw-------  0 someone someone 545740800 Jan 18 18:00 Appliance-disk6.vmdk
-rw-------  0 someone someone 545541632 Jan 18 18:00 Appliance-disk7.vmdk
-rw-------  0 someone someone 545580032 Jan 18 18:01 Appliance-disk8.vmdk
-rw-------  0 someone someone 545779200 Jan 18 18:02 Appliance-disk9.vmdk
~/Documents/vboxtesting$ tar -tvf new.ova 
-rw-------  0 bwpeddyc staff  201041 Jan 18 18:43 Appliance.ovf
-rw-------  0 bwpeddyc staff 500916224 Jan 18 17:53 Appliance-disk01.vmdk
-rw-------  0 bwpeddyc staff 520024576 Jan 18 17:57 Appliance-disk02.vmdk
-rw-------  0 bwpeddyc staff 519927808 Jan 18 17:58 Appliance-disk03.vmdk
-rw-------  0 bwpeddyc staff 489126912 Jan 18 17:58 Appliance-disk04.vmdk
-rw-------  0 bwpeddyc staff 545768448 Jan 18 17:59 Appliance-disk05.vmdk
-rw-------  0 bwpeddyc staff 545740800 Jan 18 18:00 Appliance-disk06.vmdk
-rw-------  0 bwpeddyc staff 545541632 Jan 18 18:00 Appliance-disk07.vmdk
-rw-------  0 bwpeddyc staff 545580032 Jan 18 18:01 Appliance-disk08.vmdk
-rw-------  0 bwpeddyc staff 545779200 Jan 18 18:02 Appliance-disk09.vmdk
-rw-------  0 bwpeddyc staff 545779712 Jan 18 17:54 Appliance-disk10.vmdk
-rw-------  0 bwpeddyc staff 546102784 Jan 18 17:55 Appliance-disk11.vmdk
-rw-------  0 bwpeddyc staff 953539584 Jan 18 17:56 Appliance-disk12.vmdk

[Frank Mehnert]

Fixed in VBox 5.1.16.