Does VMware accept the QCOW format?  Don't you need to convert it to VMDK?

-derek

On Fri, May 21, 2021 7:50 am, 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?
>
> 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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