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GPL based Open Source initiative dedicated to the development and distribution of Flash (AS3) and HTML5 technology that enables the implementation of IAB VAST compliant Video Players.

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Fail to import ova file to VMware Player

I downloaded an OVA file from SDN-Hub, and used VMWare Player 11 to import it. It came out with this error message: Error while converting to a virtual machine: Line 96:Unsupported element 'StorageItem' Line 105:Unsupported element…
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Unzipping Large ZIP Archives on Mac (like latest Microsoft Edge VM)

After trying to unzip the latest Microsoft Edge Vm zip file on my mac I end up with a *.cpgz file. Its supposed to result in a *.ova file for virtualBox. Anyone know how to fix this?
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Ordering files inside tar created from bash

Any idea how to tar files in a specific order. I know it sounds weird at first, but hear me out. An OVA file is essentially a tar file but with a specific order. Tar is commonly used to create the file, but in order for the OVA to be recognised by…
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VCenter: REST API: How to upload ova to content Library

Iam trying to create a VM from ova using REST API. I can do this using this Rest API: https://vcenter_ip/rest/com/vmware/vcenter/ovf/library-item/id:?~action=deploy To do this, I uploaded the ova through VSphere client.…
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How can I make a OVA which works with static IP addreses?

We've make an OVA for customers, which uses DHCP to find its IP address. It's using CoreOS as the guest operating system. Some customers would like to be able to use a static IP address, configuring that in VMWare. What is the best practice way of…
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.ova oficial ubuntu openstack username password

I have downloaded an .ova from openstack, specifically, the following: http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/focal/current/focal-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova The problem is that the username and password to access the system is not reflected by any site. I…
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How to sign an ova file?

I am trying to sign an ova file by following this link. I also generated the manifest file but I don't see any information in the signed file. Here is the command I am using: openssl req -x509 -nodes -sha256 -days 365 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout…
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How Can I deploy OVA file on Vsphere Client with python

I want to automate deploying OVA image on VSphere with python. I looked up at some packages viz. Pysphere, psphere but didn't find direct method to do so. is there any Library I'm missing or is there any other way to deploy OVA/OVF files/templates…
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How do you deploy VirtualSystemCollection enabled OVF/OVAs to ESXi?

When building an OVF, you can specify a tag for VirtualSystemCollection that allows you to have multiple VMs to share the same base disk image, but any changes that the individual machines make are Copy-On-Write into a private disk area for each…
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VPAID issue with JWPlayer 6

I've tried unsuccessfully to integrate two separated VPAID test ad-tags. The first one: advertising: { "client": "vast", "tag":…
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I have an .ova file that won't open in VirtualBox

When I try to import an .ova file in VirtualBox 5.1.8 I get an error: Error reading OVA '/filename.ova' (VERR_TAR_UNEXPECTED_EOS). Result Code: VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80BB0005) I've seen some info that I might need to update VirtualBox or maybe…
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The order of network interfaces mismatch between VMWare vSphere Client GUI and VM

I have an ova template. 6 network interfaces are defined in it, named net0, net1, net2, net3, net4, net5. The type of all of them is VMXNET3. When I deploy this ova template to ESXi6.0/5.5 server, one of steps is to configure the mapping from…
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How to deploy vm image using ovftool on vmware workstation?

I am working on a python script to deploy .ova file directly to vmware workstation. I have following question. Is it possible? If yes, is there any python module or ovf tool can be used for that ? just need pointers.
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Can't import .ova to VirtualBox and can't uncompress with `tar`

Having a problem with a ova file that is supposed to contain a VM image. Importing into VirtualBox gives the error: OVA 'path/to/filename.ova' does not contain an .ovf-file. Result Code: VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80BB0004) Component:…
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how do we specify base os version in ova live build

Everyone I am learning how to live-build ova and want to know where do we specify base os version, like ubuntu 16.04. I tried grep build don't find version... I have below code repo. Does anyone know some good tutorial for my case. Thanks. If…
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