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

[Cole Robinson]

On 02/22/2015 01:58 AM, Marko Dimjašević wrote:
> 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...
> 
> 

0.600.1 is very old, and virt-convert has changed a lot since then. I'd
recommend trying the latest version from virt-manager-1.1.0, and if you still
hit issues, file an upstream bug:

http://virt-manager.org/bugs/#report

- Cole