I believe you are partially right? Originally it was an OVA file. I
uncompressed the file which gave me another file and the vm.ovf. The OVF
file appears to be only an xml file? Or are you saying I can also
uncompressed the ovf file as well like I did the OVA?

On Fri, May 21, 2021, 2:39 AM Vojtech Juranek <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thursday, 20 May 2021 22:58:22 CEST Darin Schmidt wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Ive exported an OVA of a server we had made on OVIRT and Im trying to
> import
> > it to VMware. Its complaining that the ovf:format is incorrect.
>
> > ovf:format="http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/qcow-image-format.html";
> >
> > That link doesnt resolve to anywhere because it appears its now
> > http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/qcow-image-format.html
>
> > But I dont know whats supposed to go there nor have I been able to locate
> > anything to help solve this issue. All I really need is access to the
> files
> > in the, what I assume is, vdmk file that comes along with the ovf file,
> > which mine is called: 154b3d77-d340-4d24-a448-66265c5fb613
>
> > So if anything, is there a way to open this vm disk so I can gain access
> to
> > the files?
>
> OVF file is just a tar archive with disks and XML descriptor. So untar the
> OVF
> file should work.
>
> > Thanks
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