@florent I was recently able to test the .ova export again and I was pleased to find that it worked without the errors we had been experiencing. I'm not sure if this is something that I should be putting in a new topic but the only thing now stopping me is that for some reason I cannot get the network drivers to work on a brand new Win10 VM. I exported a working Win10 VM from my local VMware workstation. I then imported it into XCP-ng using the latest version of Xen Orchestra and it worked as expected. I then tried exporting as .ova from Xen orchestra without installing Citrix drivers (and then tried a test with the Cirtrix drivers installed), but after importing back into VMware I couldn't get any network options to work except a 3rd party USB to Ethernet adaptor.

Thanks in advance if you have any advice.

Thank you for responding and helping. Please let me know when there is a solution to test out as I will be eager to try it. Thanks

I'm sorry this is a bit over my head but I'm glad to see that you have found the issue. I assume that it will become available in a Xen Orchestra update in the near future? I'm keen to try it out when it does. Thanks

Sorry, I don't have any VMs that small. But if I understand correctly from @Gheppy it seems the issue is related to the VMs size?

Hi, thanks again for your help.

So I have also tried using the OVA with a Ubuntu machine and had the same error (I have uploaded that OVA file to the drive folder).

I did what you suggested with the XVA file and yes it successfully exported (with compression disabled - the only one I tried) and then imported back into another instance of XCP-ng. I have included the XVA file in the drive folder also.

I hope this helps to get to the root cause of the error.

Thanks,

Hi, so I signed up for a free trial of XOA to test if it was an issue with the Community version (or my setup of it) but I am getting the same results. I have tried it with Windows 10, 11 and Server 22 also with Ubuntu.

The version of XOA is:

If I try to open the OVA file directly using VMware (which would be my first choice for when I need to use VMs locally) I get one of the 2 following errors:

This one when using XOA and a clean install of Windows server 22:

This one when using XO Community version and a clean install of Windows 10:

When I make the OVA file a TAR file and extract it using 7zip I get the following error:

I'm using Chrome to do the export. The VMs are brand new and created in Xen Orchestra.

I tried with and without Citrix PV drivers installed and found no difference.

I've also tried this on multiple different platforms. So I have a setup at home that I'm running on an old PC and using the Docker installation provided by https://hub.docker.com/r/ronivay/xen-orchestra. At work I have tried the Docker version, I've tried creating a Ubuntu VM on the XCP-ng host and compiled the community version of Xen Orchestra and then I've also tried XOA via the quick deploy. So far I am having the same issue on all of them.

I'm using XCP-ng host 8.2.1 but I have also tried the latest beta version and found the same issue.

I'm using VMware Workstation v16.2.5 and Virtualbox v7.0.12

Here is a Windows 10 VM I just created without any license for testing that I can share. I've shared it using Google drive as that is what I have available but if you want to access it you will need to request access so that I can approve. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sIyjs0ldpn60pN5xBXUKYFa45VqLFu7a/view?usp=drive_link

Thanks,

Hi, I have been evaluating XCP-ng and Xen Orchestra (Community Edition) for a couple of weeks and I'm really enjoying it. I have one issue that I can't seem to find a way to solve, however. I can import VMs that I have previously created using VMware with no problems and I can create new VMs in Xen Orchestra. But when I try and export using OVA (because there are times when I still need to use a VM I have created locally on my laptop to interface with devices that I can't connect to a server) the file downloads without any issues but I cannot get it to work with VMware or VirtualBox. VMware just fails to import with an unknown fault. VirtualBox gives me an error

Error reading OVA
(VERR_TAR_BAD_CHKSUM_FIELD)

I've tried extracting the OVA to OVF format and it also failed.

I have also tried exporting just the vdi file in vmdk format and recreating the VM locally using VMware workstation and that also failed.

I'm really eager to use this product more but I can't really proceed unless I have a reliable way to also use the VMs on a local machine. Any help would be greatly appreciated.