Well, that worked and the VM booted.... Windows joins domain, and.... /something went wrong, redeployment required/. No desktop, no apparent way to check for errors. We're beyond the scope of this thread. Thank you!

Serendipitously, someone from Netwrix called me soon after that. I told him I know the big two commercial virtualization names are supported, but all this /can/ be imported here... I also gave him a quick elevator pitch on XCP-ng, for as much good as that might do with a kinda new sales guy. From here on out, if their engineers can't help, I'm off to find something else.

@olivierlambert said in XOA import OVA - "must NOT have additional properties" / "compression":

Try also in private mode.

That did not help, /but/ I passed those VMDKs over to a standalone host separate from that pool and it has already gone well beyond those previous attempts. Fun fun fun in browserland!

@Danp Thank you! Also, please don't go too far out of your way to help me here. This is more me tinkering to try a product than it is anything but critical at the moment. If that were the case, we have a XOA Premium sub and I could put in a support ticket. I just hope because of the original error message that all of this effort has some sort of knock-on benefit to the projects and community.

This didn't seem anywhere urgent enough to need a support ticket...

I am wanting to try the Netwrix Advisor Virtual Appliance, if for no other reason than it would save me the trouble of spinning up a new instance of Windows Server and SQL Server, and probably some other config..... all just to try something that I am not entirely certain about yet.

Anyway, it is distributed as OVA for VMware (and whatever Hyper-V uses), but while XOA says it is importing initially there is no further indication. However, the logs show "invalid parameters", as well these messages on the disks to create: "message": "must NOT have additional properties" / "additionalProperty": "compression".

It can be found at the link below. Annoyingly, they require /downloading a downloader/ that may only run in Windows. I was attempting the Windows Server 2019 / OVA version.

https://www.netwrix.com/virtual_appliances.html

@gpoole Thank you! I'm sure this will be quite useful in my homelab, but maybe not at work just yet... particularly because I am hopeful Olivier and Vates are able to integrate this into XOA.

This is because I am looking into integrating at least one HSM into our xcp-ng infrastructure, and the $650 USB-A YubiHSM2 is quite attractive. It would be great to be able to reliably pass this through via XOA to a Windows Server VM. I could imagine this use case being potentially important for small-medium sized companies looking for alternatives to typical expensive HSMs.