Re: [ovirt-users] Ovirt 4.0.5 how to import an OVA appliance

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Maton, Brett <matonb(a)ltresources.co.uk&gt; wrote: > Hi, > > I downloaded an OVA image from OpenVAS but I can't import it into > ovirt, any suggestions ? > > engine-image-uploader -e Export upload /tmp/OpenVAS-8-DEMO-1.0.ova > WARNING: ovirt-image-uploader is deprecated in 4.0 and will be removed in > 4.1 > Please provide the REST API password for the admin@internal oVirt Engine > user (CTRL+D to abort): > ERROR: not a gzip file > > > Unfortunately, OVA is a generic term describing a container for a VM/group of VMs definitions but it is implemented in different ways. From OpenVAS website it seems their OVA format is for Virtualbox >= 4.3... correct? You could try to export the disk file/s with VirtualBox command line tool VBoxManage (never tried myself): http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html Or eventually follow what described in this thread, that implies to import the OVA into a VirtualBox environment and then re-export it for oVirt with the steps described: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-December/036371.html HIH, Gianluca