Failed to import appliance, windows 10

[ithortureu]

I downloaded virtual box yesterday, the 5.2.8 version from the virtualbox site. I also downloaded the windows 10 stable (16.16299). I extracted the file, but for some reason I can't import it into my virtualbox. Whenever I try to import it, I get an error message, and when I click the details it says that it "could not create the imported medium" and that it "can not write allocated data block" and I'm not sure what to do about this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[socratis]

I also downloaded the windows 10 stable (16.16299).

Why?
Where did you get that pre-made VM from?
Why don't you donwload the ISO from Microsoft and create a new VM from scratch?

[mpack]

In addition to other issues, I suspect that the OP may be trying to create the VM on external media, and either running out of disk space, or hitting the file size limit of FAT32. I'm guessing that "could not write allocated data block" is because a VDI tried to grow and couldn't.

[ithortureu]

@socratis I downloaded the windows 10 stable from https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/m ... tools/vms/. I tried to import it into my virtual box but it won't let me.

[socratis]

What about the questions that mpack asked? Where are you trying to import this OVA to?

Just FYI, I've imported those OVAs multiple times , so that part is not the problem. Did you make sure that your download isn't corrupt? Did you compare the checksum?

[ithortureu]

Honestly I don't know too much about what I'm doing. It seems like there's a bit of a learning curve before you figure it all out. I'm just downloading the file, and (on the VB) going to file and then import appliance, and it starts to load but stops and gives me the error message I said earlier. How would I download the file to the right place?

[mpack]

Where you download the file to is not the issue. Checking that the download isn't corrupted may be an issue (though IMHO the error message doesn't say to me that the problem is the OVA source). More of an issue is the drive you are unpacking the OVA onto. I suspect you have no space on the destination drive, or no write permission, or it's a portable external drive formatted for FAT32 on which you've hit the FAT 4GB filesize limit.

[ithortureu]

So what would be the fix for that? What would I need to do to fix it

[socratis]

Unpack and import the OVA in your native Win10 hard drive. By default it should be NTFS, which can accommodate files more than 4 GB in size (which your OVA most probably is). The point is to not use any media that's formatted as FAT. Any kind of FAT.