unable to load ovf to virtualbox created using vmware vphrere export?

vmware virtualbox appliance
719016 picture 719016 · Nov 5, 2012 · Viewed 10.4k times · Source

I am trying to load a VM that was created by someone else using VMware vSphere into virtualbox. I got these 3 files, the first one being an xml ovf file, the second one containing the SHA1 sums and the last one being a 3.2GB vmdk:

myVM.ovf
myVM.mf
myVM-disk1.vmdk

When I try Import an Appliance choosing the ovf file, I get this error:

Failed to import appliance /home/username/VirtualBox VMs/blah/blah/myVM.ovf.

<vbox:Machine> element in OVF contains a medium attachment for the disk image 58d8e82a-37a1-4c10-b3be-b53cdb213fbe but the OVF describes no such image.

Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: Appliance
Interface: IAppliance {3059cf9e-25c7-4f0b-9fa5-3c42e441670b}

I made sure the menu is pointing to the right vmdk file, but still there is something wrong.

Any ideas?

Answer

Arnis Juraga picture Arnis Juraga · Sep 10, 2015

At the Import dialog, try to uncheck USB controller and CD/DVD devices.

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If that will help, You can enable them afterwards. In fact, You will need them to install Guest Additions later.

This helped for me, to install Microsoft prepared Virtual machines for different Internet Explorer tests from http://dev.modern.ie/tools/vms/windows/

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