Each configuration item consists of an id, description, and label. This is where we define all of the deployment options we want our OVA to have. Small Disks (8GB and 100GB).Ģ vCPUs and 8GB of RAM. I put this immediately following the DiskSection. The first thing we need to do is paste in our Deployment Options section. I will be using Atom for this guide but vi, emacs, notepad, and sublime are all great alternatives. Using the OVF file that you have extracted from the OVA file (Not sure how to do this step? Learn about it here), open this up in a text editor of your choice. This guide will expand upon this and take an even deeper look into editing OVF files. Once Imported we can then export the file to an OVA again so that it can be imported when needed.William Lam has a great write-up on this topic. \Linux-vm.ovf -Algorithm SHA1).hash.tolower()Ĭhange the SHA1 Linux-VM.OVF file hash, To the new hash that has been export from PowerShell.Īfter this I was then able to complete the OVF import. tolower to convert the response to lower case. The hash has to be in lower case so use the. To get the filehash run the below command in Powershell. This was due to the manifest file the Linux-vm.mf not matching the updated ovf file.
You can search for chunksize.īelow is the updated ovf file with the ChunkSize removed.Īfter making the change I tried to import the ovf again. Once the file copy command has completed I needed to edit the Linux-VM.ovf file to remove the ChunkSize. I used Notepad ++ to edit this. If there are multiple disks you may have to combine them using command like the below.Ĭopy /b vmName-disk1.vmdk.000000 + vmName-disk1.vmdk.000001 + …. To fix this issue I had to extract the ovf, I used 7-zip.
I had a quick look and found this VMware KB and the error is due to VMware no longer supporting ChunkSize in vSphere 6.5. I was trying to deploy some of my old Linux ovf but I was getting an error about ovf chunkSize.
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