Hi, This is, unfortunately, expected. The issue is that virtualbox expects/assumes incorrectly that a disk image file in an OVF is in VMDK format. This is not a requirement of the OVF specification. The OVF file provided indicates that this is qcow2 formated disk image: <Disk ovf:capacity="2147483648" ovf:diskId="vmdisk1" ovf:fileRef="file1" ovf:format="http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qcow2-spec.html"/>
So, this is really a bug/feature request of virtual box to support other disk image formats when importing an OVF file. Also to note, we previously did provide vmdk files that dif function as you expected. However, vmdk files are generally more difficult to work with open source tools (and nothing in main could handle the format that virtualbox was expecting). So, we started providing our full disk images in qcow2 format. For more information see [1], and [2]. -- [1] http://ubuntu-smoser.blogspot.com/2011/08/rfc-anyone-using-vmdk-or-ovf-files-from.html [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/833265 ** Also affects: virtualbox Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1004316 Title: Cloud server image OVF image fails to load in VirtualBox To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/virtualbox/+bug/1004316/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
