VMware F43 KDE doesn't import ovf files

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Hello,

I am currently migrating from windows to fedora 43 KDE.

I succesfully made sure to install every program i need.
For school i need to work with vmware, but it doesn’t fully function even though I installed the correct version.

When trying to import an ovf file, it just doesn’t import.
I don’t get any error-messages, so i just don’t know what to do.

After trying what I found online (installing libnsl), it still doesn’t work.

Does someone know what I can do to make it work?

Kind regards
Kenneth

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Have you checked the logs to see if vmware is reporting any errors during the import?

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You might want to ask your question in the VMware Workstation community forum over at broadcom.com. The participants over there would be in a better position to help diagnose why VMware Workstation won’t import an .ovf file.

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Hello,

I just checked them.
Please see them attached.

VM-ware Logs
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Have you examined the ovftool.log file that’s pointed to in the log snippet that you just posted?

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Did you check the log referenced in your output?

It looks like it logged the conversion.

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Strangely, there isn’t any logfile with that name…

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Even right after running it?

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Correct, there would be an issue with the ovftool itself then?

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Is that your personal ovf or is a generic pfsense ovf?

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My personal one

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Can you run ovftool –-help from a shell prompt?

And verify that the tool does exist in /usr/lib/vmware-ovftool

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Maybe try downloading a generic ovf? If that fails, I can test it here and see if it works for me. On the other hand, if it works, then maybe there is an issue with your ovf.

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It’s not there… There would be my issue i guess