Fail to import ova file to VMware Player

Question

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 'StorageItem'
Line 114:Unsupported element 'EthernetPortItem'

It's weird, because I downloaded the same file a few months ago in my other computer, and it worked well.

Answer 1

Seems the problem is related to the OVF format, the virtual machine was exported using OVF 2.0

What I did to import it to vmware was to import the sdn-hub vm into virtual box and export it again using OVF format 1.0.

Then vmware was happy importing the machine, and just works fine