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Why the BIG-IP VE OVA does not work on Virtualbox

I've seen this question asked on this forum as well as on several other forums across the internet, so I wanted to put together this article to answer folks' questions and to settle the discussion. I...
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Apr 09, 2018

Thanks. I needed that for PoC purposes.

It worked for me BUT I had to remove the extra (unused) SCSI controller.

So it worked when I did all you did, AND removed all these lines before re-creating the .ova

  
    1
    SCSI Controller
    scsiController1
    3
    lsilogic
    6
  
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IMPORTANT : I also had to delete de .cert and .mf files, because the signature of the OVA did not match since the .ovf file is changed.