I’m on an Arch-based Linux with VirtualBox (generic installer, couldn’t load modules with host-modules-arch) and I get this error whenever I try to import this OVA file:
Error reading OVA ‘…/coa-aio-newton.ova’ (VERR_TAR_UNEXPECTED_EOS) Result Code: VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0X80BB0005) Component: ApplianceWrap Interface: IAppliance {86a98347-7619-41aa-aece-b21ac5c1a7e6}
Apparently, these OVA files should be unpackable but tar doesn’t recognize it, and neither Ark or PeaZip can unzip this, but importing this OVA file works on Win 10.
I’ve tried using VMWare but that gave me an import error too. Why can’t virtualization work at all on Arch-based systems?
Try manually ‘tar xvf file.ova’ however it sounds like the ova might be corrupt…
Yes these were the conclusions that I have gathered from the wise web, but then why does it work flawlessly on Windows?
This is the file (My uni uses this repo as a VM) https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Preparing-for-the-Certified-OpenStack-Administrator-Exam
It looks like typical M$ EEE strategy, stage 2: extend standard to break compatibility. But OVA images produced by different virtualization systems are almost always incompatible to each other on the level of xml metadata. Seems that just one more level of incompatibility was added in archive format.
What does the command
file your_image.ovasay?