Fail to import ova file to VMware Player

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yuhsinliu picture yuhsinliu · Mar 16, 2015 · Viewed 43.1k times · Source

I downloaded an OVA file from SDN-Hub, and used VMWare Player 11 to import it.

It came out with this error message:

Error while converting to a virtual machine:
Line 96:Unsupported element 'StorageItem'
Line 105:Unsupported element 'StorageItem'
Line 114:Unsupported element 'EthernetPortItem'

It's weird, because I downloaded the same file a few months ago in my other computer, and it worked well.

Answer

Luis picture Luis · Mar 30, 2015

Seems the problem is related to the OVF format, the virtual machine was exported using OVF 2.0

What I did to import it to vmware was to import the sdn-hub vm into virtual box and export it again using OVF format 1.0.

Then vmware was happy importing the machine, and just works fine

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