export OVF issues

[Teufeldog]

I built up a new virtual machine using 3.0.0. Host is Mac OS (10.5.7); Guest OS is Ubuntu 8.04. I then export to OVF. I then run this through VMware's ovftool which outputs quite a few errors:

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$ ovftool akm.ovf vmware/akm.vmx
Opening OVF source: akm.ovf
Warning: No manifest file
Opening VMX target: vmware/akm.vmx
Error:
 - Line 8: Unsupported value 'http://www.vmware.com/specifications/vmdk.html#sparse' for attribute 'format' on element 'Disk'.
 - Line 33: Unsupported element 'Description'
 - Line 41: Unsupported element 'Description'
 - Line 44: Unsupported element 'AllocationUnits'
 - Line 50: Unsupported element 'Description'
 - Line 53: Unsupported element 'ResourceSubType'
 - Line 54: Unsupported element 'Address'
 - Line 59: Unsupported element 'Description'
 - Line 62: Unsupported element 'AutomaticAllocation'
 - Line 63: Unsupported element 'AddressOnParent'
 - Line 70: Unsupported element 'ResourceSubType'
 - Line 71: Unsupported element 'AutomaticAllocation'
 - Line 72: Unsupported element 'Connection'
 - Line 77: Unsupported element 'Description'
 - Line 80: Unsupported element 'Address'
 - Line 85: Unsupported element 'Description'
 - Line 88: Unsupported element 'HostResource'
 - Line 89: Unsupported element 'Parent'
 - Line 90: Unsupported element 'AddressOnParent'
 - Line 95: Unsupported element 'Description'
 - Line 98: Unsupported element 'AutomaticAllocation'
 - Line 99: Unsupported element 'Parent'
 - Line 100: Unsupported element 'AddressOnParent'

The work around is to export as 'legacy 0.9' ovf. Then make a modification to the ovf xml file for the soundcard device. That works fine with ovftool which allows my VMware users to then use the virtual machine.

Is the ovf export side of the house getting any attention? I really like being able to generate virtual machines in VirtualBox and then deploying them to any other engine, regardless of what my users might be running.

[Perryg]

Welcome to the forum,
And thank you for the information. While I can't speak for the Sun people I can speak from experience and would say that yes it is being worked on. They just completed a major release so things like this may even be getting worked on as we speak.