Import Appliance fails

[burinsky]

I am running VirtualBox 5.1.22 on macOS Sierra 10.12.5.

I am running VMware 8.5.8 Pro on the same macOS Sierra 10.12.5 host.

In VMware, I have a running OS X 10.6.3 guest. I did a successful Export of OVF...

In VirtualBox, Import Appliance fails. While the popup shows:

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Importing virtual disk image 'SnowLeop-disk1.vmdk' ... (2/3)

It fails with:

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Failed to import appliance /Volumes/Disk1/SnowLeop.ovf.

Could not create the imported medium '/Users/dev/VirtualBox VMs/vm/SnowLeop-disk1.vmdk' (VERR_VD_VMDK_INVALID_FORMAT).
Result Code: 	VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80BB0004)
Component: 	ApplianceWrap
Interface: 	IAppliance {8398f026-4add-4474-5bc3-2f9f2140b23e}

I'd appreciate any clues on how to proceed. Thanks.

[socratis]

It's because the correct term is "SnowLeopard" and not "SnowLeopar". You're missing a "d" at the end.

No, of course not. Most probably because there's something wrong with the VMDK. There are three cases that this might happen and they all point to a corrupt VMDK.

May I ask what is "/Volumes/Disk1". That doesn't look like you're using your computer's primary HD for the VMDK. Is this an external HD? A stick? How big was the original VM, how big is the one that you're trying to import?

[burinsky]

It's an external disk. I was running the VM (VMDK) in VMware, shut it down, and exported the OVF.

What are the three cases? Are you suggesting that the running VMware VM has a corrupted VMDK? Or that the appliance export corrupted it?

[socratis]

It's an external disk.

I should have asked that in the previous post, but what's the format of the drive, FAT32 maybe? In that case, the max size of a file is 4GB, which would be quite small for a VM. In that case the file might have been truncated and therefore becoming corrupted.

The three cases that I referred to are all for unreadable VMDKs, i.e. if you see that error message, something is wrong with the VMDK.