Unable to boot imported OVA file

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue May 5 14:15:57 UTC 2020


On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 03:09:20PM +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote:
> I have a Windows 10 OVA file from VirtualBox that I would like to
> use in virt-manager.

OVA files are just tarballs.  Unpack the file with tar and convert the
disk images from VMDK format to raw or qcow2 using ‘qemu-img convert’.

Note that virt-v2v will not work.

Rich.

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