Migrate a VM from ESXI to Virtualbox

[atux_null]

Hi. i got some VMs in ova, that have exported from ESXI version 6 and i am trying to import them at my virtualbox in home PC. i have done the following steps without success up to now:

• Open the ova file with 7zip and export the ovf file
• convert the ova file to ovf with ovftools

in both cases there was not any errors reports and the the file imported to virtualbox. Then i started the VM in virtualbox. No errors reported, but i cannot see anything in the console.

is there a way to make the ova file to work in virtualbox and vice versa, please?

[mpack]

• Open the ova file with 7zip and export the ovf file
• convert the ova file to ovf with ovftools

Why would you do either of those things? VirtualBox supports OVA: see section 1.15 of the user manual (specifically the second bullet point in 1.15.1).

[atux_null]

someone in the office created a VM in ESXI and i need to have it at home to work with. The thing is that at home i have virtualbox. So i do need the conversion.
as mentioned in my post, the ovf it does not work.
i forgot to mention that the ova file it imports fine in virtualbox, but it does not start. is there a workaround, please?

[andyp73]

i forgot to mention that the ova file it imports fine in virtualbox, but it does not start. is there a workaround, please?

If the .ova file has imported correctly then "but it does not start" doesn't give us enough information to help diagnose the problem. Does the guest start up? Is there an error message? Is the virtual screen just blank? Does smoke pour out of the CPIU fan?

-Andy.

[mpack]

i forgot to mention that the ova file it imports fine in virtualbox, but it does not start. is there a workaround, please?

If the VM created from the OVA doesn't start then the problem is the VM, not the container it came in.

You need to report precise error messages concerning the failure to start, and provide a VM log. With the VM fully shut down, right click and "Show Log" in the GUI, save "VBox.log" (no other file) to a zip, and attach the zip here.