CentOS hanging on boot

[Tecbill]

Hey folks

After exporting a CentOS 5.7 VM from a Citrix-Server by using the .OVF-format I am unable import that VM into virtualbox. After choosing the .OVF file it gives me the attached error-message. Any ideas?

[socratis]

Did you read that error message?

Document labelled UTF-16 but has UTF-8 content.

Download Notepad++, or any other text editor that can open and translate different UTF encodings. Open the problematic file "D:\Temp\inf-server7\inf-server7.ovf" and change the encoding to UTF-8. If that doesn't work, try with UTF-16. I really don't know the standard, I'll look it up at some point...

[Tecbill]

OK, that did the trick, thanks a lot. But after that I ran into the next error message.
If I open the .OVF-file with the notepad again and search about an absent ID I don't see any missing entry between an <instanceID></instanceID>-code.
I also uploaded the .OVF-file and changed the file format into .TXT, otherwise the file would be blocked by uploading it. Please change it back to .OVF if you need.
Thank you.

[socratis]

I haven't dealt too much (if any) with OVAs and OVFs, maybe someone with more experience can help you out. In the mean time, why don't you try exploring if there are other options to export the VM from Citrix. An older format perhaps?