Can not export / import virtual appliance

[Hesteban]

Hi there,

Please excuse my dummy question if the subject has already been covered; I'm pretty sure it hasn't...

I am using a MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon M3 Max under macOS Sonoma 14.3 and the last version of VirtualBox: 7.1.

It seems I can not export my virtual machines to ova files.

Using the graphical interface it gives:

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Using the command line:

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/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxManage export "SAE15 Debian 11 64bits" -o /tmp/toto.ova
VBoxManage: error: Code NS_ERROR_ABORT (0x80004004) - Operation aborted (extended info not available)
VBoxManage: error: Context: "ExportTo(pAppliance, Bstr(pszAbsFilePath).raw(), pVSD.asOutParam())" at line 1867 of file VBoxManageAppliance.cpp

I am also using VMware Fusion [Player 13.6.0 (24238079)], and was able to do:

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/Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/VMware\ OVF\ Tool/ovftool --X:logLevel=verbose --exportFlags=extraconfig --allowExtraConfig --addDevice:vtpm /Users/huot/Virtual\ Machines.localized/SAE15\ Debian11\ 64bits\ ARM.vmwarevm/SAE15\ Debian11\ 64bits\ ARM.vmx ~/Downloads/toto.ovf
cd  ~/Downloads/toto
tar cvf  ../toto.ova *

and then trying to import it from the graphical interface:

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I also tried:

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/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxManage import ~/Download/toto/toto.ovf --dry-run

and obtain the following (in the GUI):

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Échec de l'ouverture de session pour la machine virtuelle vm.

Callee RC:VBOX_E_PLATFORM_ARCH_NOT_SUPPORTED (0x80bb0012)

Is there anyone who has the same issue? Do you have an idea to solve it?

Thx

[b800h]

Yes, I've got exactly the same issue on an M1 Macbook Air.

Precisely the same error message, with the same line numbers.

VBoxManage: error: Code NS_ERROR_ABORT (0x80004004) - Operation aborted (extended info not available)
VBoxManage: error: Context: "ExportTo(pAppliance, Bstr(pszAbsFilePath).raw(), pVSD.asOutParam())" at line 1867 of file VBoxManageAppliance.cpp

[klaus]

Suspect that's a bug which crept in specifically for ARM VMs, sabotaging things.

[multiOS]

AFAIK (and per the VMware guidance I've seen) the OVA/OVF format is only supported on x86_64 hardware, not ARM64/aarch64; so VirtualBox on ARM shouldn't really be presenting any option to either export or import OVA.

[klaus]

In the VirtualBox case the export/import functionality is meant to work - but I assume due to a white spot on the testing side (we have testcases - but for x86_64 only so far) it's broken in more or less subtle ways.