VirtualBox disk full on importing appliance in ova [closed]

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trying to import MyMachine.ova (Ubuntu created on VBox and exported to ova) I am catching error:

Failed to import appliance D:\Exported Virtual Machines\MyMachine.ova.

Could not create the imported medium 'D:\VirtualBox VMs\MyMachine\MyMachine-disk1.vmdk'.

VMDK: cannot write allocated data block in 'D:\VirtualBox VMs\MyMachine/MyMachine-disk1.vmdk' (VERR_DISK_FULL).

Result Code: VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80BB0004) Component: ApplianceWrap Interface: IAppliance {8398f026-4add-4474-5bc3-2f9f2140b23e}

I have C drive and D drive, my C is main drive and there is little space, but on D I have ~110 GB free space so it isn't a problem in space.

Configuration for virtualbox path is File->Preferences->Default machine folder: D:\VirtualBox VMs

And after clicking File->Import appliance I have: Virtual Disk Image D:\VirtualBox VMs\DanfossMachine\DanfossMachine-disk1.vmdk

So it seems that it should work without any problem, but it fails :(

Could someone maybe give a hint?

In my case, I had to change the drive where virtual disk image file(vmdk) is created. It might be there is not enough space in which a default disk drive is chosen. - Good luck - — dave

AFOC AFOC · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-11T20:49:28

Here are a couple possible solutions :

Make sure your target file system is NTFS and not something with a 4GB file limitation (eg FAT32)
Uncompress the ova file using 7zip or similar. Create a new virtual machine and import the vmdk that came from the ova as the VM's hard drive during creation. This ought to tell you how large the existing hard drive is. It's possible that your "MyMachine-disk1.vmdk" has a reserved file space much larger than the actual ova file takes up, and thus will run into a disk full error despite not appearing to need that much space.

VirtualBox disk full on importing appliance in ova [closed]

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