Issue importing OVF to VirtualBox

[Waddellgaz]

Hello all,

First - my apologies if this is detailed else where on the forum. I've looked around and couldn't quite find a solution to fit my issue.

I'm attempting to export a VM from VMWarePlayer --> VirtualBox. I done this using OVFtool to export to OVF format (also tried OVA with no luck either). Within VirtualBox on attempting to import appliance I get this error;

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Failed to import appliance C:\Users\<username>\export.ovf.

Error reading "C:\Users\<username>\export.ovf": Host resource of type "Other Storage Device (20)" is supported with SATA AHCI controllers only, line 48 (subtype:vmware.nvme.controller).

Result Code: VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80BB0004)
Component: ApplianceWrap
Interface: IAppliance {86a98347-7619-41aa-aece-b21ac5c1a7e6}

Looking at line 48, I see this is for storage device NVME. I guess from the error description VirtualBox does not like this very much.

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<Item>
        <rasd:Address>0</rasd:Address>
        <rasd:Description>NVME Controller</rasd:Description>
        <rasd:Caption>nvmeController0</rasd:Caption>
        <rasd:InstanceID>3</rasd:InstanceID>
        <rasd:ResourceSubType>vmware.nvme.controller</rasd:ResourceSubType>
        <rasd:ResourceType>20</rasd:ResourceType>
      </Item>

From another forum page I seen some suggestions to manually edited the .ovf file by replacing
ElementName with Caption
vmware.sata.ahci with AHCI

I also deleted the .mf file.

After these steps still no luck though

Can anybody point me in the direction of documentation or steps to help get past this?

Kind regards
Gary

[scottgus1]

I am not familiar with tweaking an OVF. It could be possible, if you can extract the full .vmdk from the compressed .vmdk in the appliance, you could build a new VM with settings as close as possible to the old VM. You might get the full .vmdk by extracting it with 7zip. But this is also something I have not done.

Virtualbox has a separate NVMe controller. This could be the source of the complaint.

[Martin]

You could try to add a SATA controller to the VMware VM and remove the NVMe controller before exporting to OVF.