@florent Thanks for the tip! I was able to import the disk like that.

When starting up the VM after attaching it, it was stuck at "Booting from disk...". After changing the boot firmware from "bios" to "uefi", it booted up just fine. This can be marked as solved.

@florent Thanks for the tip! I was able to import the disk like that.

When starting up the VM after attaching it, it was stuck at "Booting from disk...". After changing the boot firmware from "bios" to "uefi", it booted up just fine. This can be marked as solved.

@Danp Yes, I can provide an ova (~10G) for you to test. Would I just upload it here? Or is there a site to upload it to?

Thanks.

@DustinB I tried through Xen Orchestra as well. But once I click on the blue "Import" button, it grays out and just keeps spinning. Nothing is showing up in tasks - like it's not doing anything. So I decided to switch to the "latest" channel from stable and try again. But still no go. I'm running XOA version 5.91.2 as of right now.

Hello all,
Complete noob to Xen but liking it so far except for one issue. Importing a test VM from RedHat Virtualization to xcp-ng. So in RHV, I selected "Export to OVA" from our test vm. It created an OVA file. Great! So far so good. I then mount the NFS directory containing the exported VM (ignis.ova) on the xcp-ng host server. Once I have it mounted, I then try to import it with xe vm-import. This is where I'm having issues:

[15:34 host1 ignis]# xe vm-import filename=/tmp/ovaimport/ignis/ignis.ova sr-uuid=c7103321-7066-79d1-2f13-2f3d723c3506 preserve=true
The VM could not be imported because the XVA file is invalid: an unexpected file was encountered.
filename_expected: ova.xml
filename_found: vm.ovf

I then try to extract the OVA file and import it that way, but then receive another error:

[15:39 host1 ignis]# tar xf ignis.ova
[15:43 host1 ignis]# ll
total 146791224
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75157078016 Feb 12 11:21 795f650b-5c8a-4463-87a6-d02b1f8819cc
-rw------- 1 root root 75157103616 Feb 14 14:44 ignis.ova
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root        2535 Feb 12 11:21 nvram.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root         512 Feb 12 11:21 pad
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root       19034 Feb 12 11:21 vm.ovf
[15:46 host1 ignis]# xe vm-import filename=/tmp/ovaimport/ignis/vm.ovf sr-uuid=c7103321-7066-79d1-2f13-2f3d723c3506 preserve=true
The VM could not be imported.
msg: INTERNAL_ERROR: [ (Failure Int64.of_string) ]

Any suggestions? I'm sure I'm missing something. Thanks!