[libvirt-users] A problem with converting an OVA appliance

[Marko Dimjašević]

Hi all,

I've been having a problem when trying to convert an Open Virtualization
Appliance (OVA) format appliance to the "virt-image" format. This is how
I try to convert the appliance:

$ virt-convert --arch=i686 -i ovf appliance.ova 

The result is:

ERROR    Couldn't import file "appliance.ova": must be string without
null bytes or None, not str


This happens on a Debian Wheezy (7.8) machine. virt-convert is at
version 0.600.1. All libvirt* packages are at version 1.2.9. 

Unfortunately, I couldn't find anyone else through web searches having
the same issue and then applying their solution. It'd be great if
someone can help with trying to figure out what is going on here...


-- 
Regards,
Marko
http://dimjasevic.net/marko