I have been using virtualbox for many years now but never have i faced this issue before. My vm manager is throwing following error on import appliance:
Failed to import appliance C:\Users\TP\Documents\TPv8.4.ova
Error reading OVA 'C:\Users\Smart\Documents\TailorPad v8.4.ova' (VERR_TAR_CHKSUM_MISMATCH).
Result Code: VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80BB0005)
Component: ApplianceWrap
Interface: IAppliance {8398f026-4add-4474-5bc3-2f9f2140b23e}
I tried to import it using all the vb 5 & 6 builds only to get same error. This particular ova file is very important for me to import coz of the the data in it. Is there a way to find out the compatible version for this ova file so i can try with the particular one. Also is it possible to extract sql data from it in any way or maybe a way to fix the ova file? Please advise.
Web-searching: VERR_TAR_CHKSUM_MISMATCH site:forums.virtualbox.org
shows it's quite likely the OVA file is damaged, causing the hash check to fail to match. Storing a larger-than-4GB file on a FAT32-formatted drive does this, along with lots of other typical computer-glitch things.
An OVA appears to be a tar archive. Free 7Zip can open tar's and OVAs on Windows hosts. You might be able to extract the drive file from the archive, then attach it to a guest and get the files off it.
Or try one of your other copies of this important file.
System is NTFS on Windows 10 and the ova file is less than 3gb. I tried extraction with 7-Zip but it gave following message after the extraction failed:
The OVA file is damaged. Nothing else can be done with it that I know of. You can web-search to see if 7zip help channels know what to do about that error. If not then the OVA is dead.
You will need a different backup file to recover your data.
