On 02/22/2015 01:58 AM, Marko Dimjašević wrote:
Hi all,
I've been having a problem when trying to convert an Open Virtualization Appliance (OVA) format appliance to the "virt-image" format. This is how I try to convert the appliance:
$ virt-convert --arch=i686 -i ovf appliance.ova
The result is:
ERROR Couldn't import file "appliance.ova": must be string without null bytes or None, not str
This happens on a Debian Wheezy (7.8) machine. virt-convert is at version 0.600.1. All libvirt* packages are at version 1.2.9.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find anyone else through web searches having the same issue and then applying their solution. It'd be great if someone can help with trying to figure out what is going on here...
0.600.1 is very old, and virt-convert has changed a lot since then. I'd recommend trying the latest version from virt-manager-1.1.0, and if you still hit issues, file an upstream bug: http://virt-manager.org/bugs/#report - Cole