Re: [Libguestfs] "could not parse ovf:Name" converting OVA

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 08:47:36AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 03:19:15PM -0700, Don Marti wrote: > > I got the "IE10 on Win 8" VM download from here: > > https://dev.modern.ie/tools/vms/linux/ > > > > and am trying to convert the .ova file to a format that > > will work with virt-manager and KVM on Fedora 21. > > > > I tried this: > > > > $ virt-v2v -v -x -i ova -o libvirt IE10\ -\ Win8.ova > > > > and got this output: > > > > virt-v2v: libguestfs 1.28.12 (x86_64) > > [ 0.0] Opening the source -i ova IE10 - Win8.ova > > tar -xf 'IE10 - Win8.ova' -C '/var/tmp/ova.Jecd3x' > > virt-v2v: error: could not parse ovf:Name from OVF document > > OVF isn't a real standard - it was a plot by VMware to claim that > their non-standard proprietary software supports "standards". Every > hypervisor generates its own random variant of OVF. > > virt-v2v only supports the OVF generated by VMware. > > I'll take a look at this variation of OVF to see if it's something we > could modify virt-v2v to support, but at the moment virt-v2v doesn't > support it. I wasn't able to get that site to give me a .ova file, only .zip.

Anyway, you probably don't need to convert this VM using virt-v2v anyway. Just untar the .ova file, extract the disks (*.vmdk) and convert them to qcow2 using `qemu-img convert foo.vmdk -O qcow2 foo.qcow2'.