VirtualBox

Opened 14 years ago

Closed 14 years ago

#7126 closed defect (fixed)

Import Appliance option seems to ignore OSType="Fedora" -> Fixed in SVN

Reported by: David J. Malan Owned by:
Component: OVF Version: VirtualBox 3.2.6
Keywords: OSType Fedora Cc:
Guest type: Linux Host type: Mac OS X

Description

If you export an appliance that was configured as running "Fedora" (not 64-bit) and then import it (after deleting the virtual media from the original), the import process seems to ignore the OVF file's mention of OSType="Fedora", instead defaulting to "Linux 2.6". Result is that import process seems not to take into account OS-specific defaults (e.g., video memory).

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cs50-2.0b1.ovf (13.0 KB ) - added by David J. Malan 14 years ago.

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Change History (7)

by David J. Malan, 14 years ago

Attachment: cs50-2.0b1.ovf added

comment:1 by Technologov, 14 years ago

AFAIK Fedora is not included in OVF specification, so it resets to "Linux".

-Technologov, 6.7.2010.

comment:2 by Technologov, 14 years ago

but things such as Video Memory should be saved somewhere...

in reply to:  1 comment:3 by David J. Malan, 14 years ago

Replying to Technologov:

AFAIK Fedora is not included in OVF specification, so it resets to "Linux".

-Technologov, 6.7.2010.

Thanks for the follow-up. Quite fair, but OSType="Fedora" appears to be an attribute of an element in the vbox: namespace (and not in the OVF envelope itself), in which case I assume it's there precisely so that VirtualBox can infer OS type?

djm

comment:4 by Frank Mehnert, 14 years ago

Component: otherOVF

comment:5 by Christian Pötzsch, 14 years ago

Summary: Import Appliance option seems to ignore OSType="Fedora"Import Appliance option seems to ignore OSType="Fedora" -> Fixed in SVN

Should be fixed by the next major version. You have to export the VM again to make it work.

comment:6 by Frank Mehnert, 14 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Fix in VBox 4.0.

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