OVA import failing

olivierlambert

When something doesn't work, please explain in what way. Otherwise, it's a bit hard to help you

Example: you said it doesn't boot. But in what way? Any error message?

geekwithoutacause

@olivierlambert said in OVA import failing:

When something doesn't work, please explain in what way. Otherwise, it's a bit hard to help you

Example: you said it doesn't boot. But in what way? Any error message?

Makes sense. Here is a screenshot of the console....

olivierlambert

Are you sure the VM got the disk plugged?
On VMware, did you use BIOS or UEFI boot? Switch to the correct value in XO (for example), in VM/advanced tab

geekwithoutacause

@olivierlambert

@olivierlambert said in OVA import failing:

Are you sure the VM got the disk plugged?

On VMware, did you use BIOS or UEFI boot? Switch to the correct value in XO (for example), in VM/advanced tab

Whoa. The vm instance was set to EFI boot and xcp-ng had it set to BIOS. I figured the conversion would set that correctly and I had not checked. I changed it to EFI and it's working now ! Thank you for the quick response !

olivierlambert

Nailed it

geekwithoutacause

@olivierlambert said in OVA import failing:

Nailed it

yes sir.
Quick question, Is there any way to speed up the vm import ? Takes all day from my desktop to my esxi box which has instances on an nfs drive.

olivierlambert

Keep in mind the file has to flow from your browser toward your XOA, then to your XOA to your host, which might use another network share itself.

If your XOA could mount the place where you have your OVA directly, you could use upload-ova utility (see https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/tree/master/%40xen-orchestra/upload-ova#usage ) to send them directly.

geekwithoutacause

@olivierlambert

@olivierlambert said in OVA import failing:

Keep in mind the file has to flow from your browser toward your XOA, then to your XOA to your host, which might use another network share itself.

If your XOA could mount the place where you have your OVA directly, you could use upload-ova utility (see https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/tree/master/%40xen-orchestra/upload-ova#usage ) to send them directly.

Going to look into that, thank you.