Converting .OVA-formatted VM to Hyper-V
It turns out that it was a mistake using VBoxManage
from the VirtualBox package. The call has altered the VMDK and apparently has rendered it invalid. I would not have expected VBoxManage to write to the source file, thus it took a while before I noticed that I am trying to work with a broken virtual disk.
the-wabbit
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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the-wabbit almost 2 years
I am struggling with importing an .OVA VM into my Hyper-V infrastructure. I managed to extract the .ova file using
tar
which yields three fiels -.ovf
.mf
and.vmdk
. The.mf
-contained SHA1 sums matched the.vmdk
file. The .vmdk seems to be in thestream-optimized
format in version 9 according to the data contained in theovf
and the.vmdk
file's contents:createType="streamOptimized" # Extent description RDONLY 104857600 SPARSE "generated-stream.vmdk"
I tried VirtualBox'
VBoxManage
to perform the conversion, but without success:# VBoxManage clonehd --format VHD MyVM-disk1.vmdk MyVM.vhd /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxManage: /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxRT.so) 0%... Progress state: VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR VBoxManage: error: Failed to clone hard disk. Error message: Could not open the medium storage unit '/home/dj/MyVM-disk1.vmdk'. VBoxManage: error: VMDK: incorrect ordering of entries in descriptor in '/home/dj/MyVM-disk1.vmdk' (VERR_VD_VMDK_INVALID_HEADER). VBoxManage: error: VD: error VERR_VD_VMDK_INVALID_HEADER opening image file '/home/dj/MyVM-disk1.vmdk' (VERR_VD_VMDK_INVALID_HEADER)
My vSphere hosts would not accept the
.vmdk
for a valid disk too, so I tried converting it togrowable
usingvmware-vdiskmanager
from the 5.1.1 VDDK which is available from the VMWare site. Yet, this also did not work out as intended:# vmware-vdiskmanager -r ./myVM-disk1.vmdk -t 0 ./myVM-growable.vmdk Creating disk './myVM-growable.vmdk' Failed to convert disk: The file specified is not a virtual disk (0xf00003ebf).
What's wrong here? How do I get it converted / imported properly?
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jirib over 10 yearsDid you try qemu-img?
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the-wabbit over 10 years@JiriXichtkniha I did, but it seems my version (1.0) does not support the
vhd
output format.
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