On Friday, 21 May 2021 13:50:15 CEST Darin Schmidt wrote:
> I believe you are partially right? Originally it was an OVA file. I
> uncompressed the file which gave me another file and the vm.ovf. The OVF
> file appears to be only an xml file? Or are you saying I can also
> uncompressed the ovf file as well like I did the OVA?

yes, OVA is tar archive of OVF directory (see e.g. [1]) and OVF is again tar
archive of one XML descriptor and VM disks, so you should be able to get the
VM disk this way

[1] https://fileinfo.com/extension/ova

>
> On Fri, May 21, 2021, 2:39 AM Vojtech Juranek <vjuranek@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday, 20 May 2021 22:58:22 CEST Darin Schmidt wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Ive exported an OVA of a server we had made on OVIRT and Im trying to
> >
> > import
> >
> > > it to VMware. Its complaining that the ovf:format is incorrect.
> > >
> > > ovf:format="http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/qcow-image-format.html"
> > >
> > > That link doesnt resolve to anywhere because it appears its now
> > > http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/qcow-image-format.html
> > >
> > > But I dont know whats supposed to go there nor have I been able to
> > > locate
> > > anything to help solve this issue. All I really need is access to the
> >
> > files
> >
> > > in the, what I assume is, vdmk file that comes along with the ovf file,
> > > which mine is called: 154b3d77-d340-4d24-a448-66265c5fb613
> > >
> > > So if anything, is there a way to open this vm disk so I can gain access
> >
> > to
> >
> > > the files?
> >
> > OVF file is just a tar archive with disks and XML descriptor. So untar the
> > OVF
> > file should work.
> >
> > > Thanks
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