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John_Arnold_106
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Oct 26, 2011

11.0.0 on VMware Player?

Hi,

 

 

 

I'm unable to get the 11.0.0 .ova to load in VMware player, receiving "access denied" error, and a warning that it's not a properly formatted OVF.

 

 

Has anyone gotten this to work? I can import into ESXi no problem, and I'm in the process of exporting a .vmx+vmdk but that seems rather clunky...

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

John

 

 

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  • qe_102628's avatar
    qe_102628
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    Oct 27, 2011
    You'll have to convert the OVA to another format for use with VMware Player as the BIG-IP 11.0.0 OVA contains options specific to VMware ESX and ESXi deployments.

     

     

  • John_Arnold_106's avatar
    John_Arnold_106
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    Oct 28, 2011
    I got it working via converting to a .vmx in ovftool. It may be worth it for F5 to post a doc on this. If your a virtualization pro it's not too bad, but if you're Joe User, probably not so much...