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a script that can help import VMs into VMware ESXi from VirtualBox. tested vbox 4.2.18 and ESXi 5.1.
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#!/usr/bin/env python | |
# | |
# usage: | |
# conv2vmx-ovf.py some-vm.ovf | |
# | |
# ref: http://www.cnblogs.com/eshizhan/p/3332020.html | |
# | |
import sys | |
fn = sys.argv[1] | |
fp = open(fn).read() | |
if hasattr(fp,'decode'): | |
fp = fp.decode('utf-8') | |
fp = fp.replace('<OperatingSystemSection ovf:id="80">', '<OperatingSystemSection ovf:id="101">') | |
fp = fp.replace('<vssd:VirtualSystemType>virtualbox-2.2', '<vssd:VirtualSystemType>vmx-7') | |
fp = fp.replace('<rasd:Caption>sataController', '<rasd:Caption>scsiController') | |
fp = fp.replace('<rasd:Description>SATA Controller', '<rasd:Description>SCSI Controller') | |
fp = fp.replace('<rasd:ElementName>sataController', '<rasd:ElementName>scsiController') | |
fp = fp.replace('<rasd:ResourceSubType>AHCI', '<rasd:ResourceSubType>lsilogic') | |
fp = fp.replace('<rasd:ResourceType>20', '<rasd:ResourceType>6') | |
end = fp.find('<rasd:Caption>sound') | |
start = fp.rfind('<Item>', 0, end) | |
fp = fp[:start] + '<Item ovf:required="false">' + fp[start+len('<Item>'):] | |
nfp = open('vmx_' + fn, 'wb') | |
nfp.write(fp.encode('utf8')) | |
nfp.close() |
C:\Users\Nick\Documents>conv2vmx-ovf.py ws1-vm1.ova
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Nick\Documents\conv2vmx-ovf.py", line 13, in <module>
fp = fp.decode('utf-8')
File "C:\Python26\lib\encodings\utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 13948: inval
id start byte
Hy nbolton, How to fix your error you've got above ?
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It really helped me out today for importing into vSphere 5.1. Thanks for sharing this!