Re: Introducing A2SERVER

[Ivan X <ivan@ivanx.com>]

On Jan 20, 7:35 am, Steven Hirsch <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/19/2012 08:44 PM, David Schmidt wrote:
>
> > On 1/19/2012 6:09 PM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
> >> On 01/19/2012 12:43 PM, Ivan Drucker wrote:
> >>> See, I knew there'd be issues. Like a dead link to the virtual machine
> >>> file itself (sheesh). If you tried to download it and got a Page Not
> >>> Found before, please try again.
>
> >> Ivan, Do you know offhand if that .ova image can be converted for use
> >> with VMware? I have a $$$ license for Workstation and would like to try
> >> it there.
>
> > OVA is just the OVF in one file, isn't it? Tarred up? I use OVFs all the time
> > with VMware. You can deploy OVFs directly.
>
> That's what about 40% of the mutually-conflicting articles on the net claim,
> but VMware Workstation panics trying to boot the extracted vmdks directly.  I
> downloaded 'ovftool' and tried a conversion that way, but it complains that it
> doesn't know anything about "virtualbox-2.2" images.  That was after a
> protracted fight just getting ovftool to install - it kept throwing an error
> about a conflict with an existing VMware resource.  Ended up putting it in a
> chroot environment.  There were hints that - somehow - this function was built
> into Workstation 7.5, but damned if I could find it.

I've posted a VMware virtual machine of A2SERVER to go along with the
VirtualBox one. It's up on the web site.