Opened 19 months ago
#21194 new defect
Export creates a defective .ova file (missing disk image) : cannot import itself back.
| Reported by: | ci-zephyurus | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 6.1.36 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | Windows |
Description
I am using VBox 6.1.36 under Windows 10 Pro.
When I exported my VM from VirtualBox so that it will be imported to VMWare player, etc., VMware Player, and VMWare workstation pro does not read the disks correctly (I think). The number of disks recognized by VMWare player was about half the numbers of attached disks used in VirtualBox. So the import basically failed.
So I tried to read the exported description back to VirtualBox to see what happens.
To my surprise, VirtualBox reported the following error, which collaborates my observation of missing disks in VMWare Player, etc.
--- Begin Quote: The following the error I saw. It is under Japanese Windows 10 Pro.
仮想アプライアンス"J:\NEW-VMWARE-DIR\debian64bit-Rev02-transition.ova"のインポートに失敗しました。
The above says, VBox failed to import the *.ova description.
<vbox:Machine> element in OVF contains a medium attachment for the disk image 10bf7d63-35a5-4f22-87fd-b11a1634da12 but the OVF describes no such image.
終了コード : E_FAIL (0x80004005)
コンポーネント: ApplianceWrap
インターフェース: IAppliance {86a98347-7619-41aa-aece-b21ac5c1a7e6}
The original VM seems to work just fine as far as I use it to develop patches for Thunderbird mail client and other tasks.
