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?
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?Well, I’ve downloaded the file and it is a correct tar archive.
% file coa-aio-newton.ova coa-aio-newton.ova: POSIX tar archive (GNU) % tar -tf coa-aio-newton.ova coa-aio-newton.ovf coa-aio-newton_2_1-disk001.vmdk % sha256sum coa-aio-newton.ova 025fcb6e635e30d6592834aeba1649ef24a8c0fa079d1bbc9aa6290a8aa5e614 coa-aio-newton.ovaAccording to coa-aio-newton.ovf, it is created in virtualbox.
$ file coa-aio-newton.ova coa-aio-newton.ova: ASCII text $ tar -tf coa-aio-newton.ova tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errorsHmm interesting. Nevermind I have unpacked the ova file and exported the vmdk and ovf back to Linux. Thank you for your observation tho!
That file was downloaded wrong. I can guess that you used the broken dropbox link and this file contains a 404 page or you used
git clonewithoutgit-lfsinstalled.Absolutely right, I have only used git clone. Thank you for showing git-lfs, never heard of it before.