fusion export fails on VMWareFusion Oracle Linux VM

[blysik]

Mac OS X Mountain Lion
VMWare Fusion 5.0.3

bundle exec veewee fusion export seo

fails with this error:

Executing command: echo 'veewee'|sudo -S sh '/tmp/shutdown.sh'
Error: We executed a shell command and the exit status was not 0
- Command :/Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/VMware\ OVF\ Tool/ovftool --compress=9 /Users/blysik/Documents/Virtual\ Machines.localized/seo.vmwarevm/seo.vmx seo.ova.
- Exitcode :1.
- Output :
Opening VMX source: /Users/blysik/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/seo.vmwarevm/seo.vmx
Error: Failed to open disk: seo.vmdk
Completed with errors

Wrong exit code for command /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/VMware\ OVF\ Tool/ovftool --compress=9 /Users/blysik/Documents/Virtual\ Machines.localized/seo.vmwarevm/seo.vmx seo.ova
[blysik@Bruces-MacBook-Air veewee (master)]$

However, if I try that command myself, it works:

[blysik@Bruces-MacBook-Air veewee (master)]$ /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/VMware\ OVF\ Tool/ovftool --compress=9 /Users/blysik/Documents/Virtual\ Machines.localized/seo.vmwarevm/seo.vmx seo.ova
Opening VMX source: /Users/blysik/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/seo.vmwarevm/seo.vmx
Opening OVA target: seo.ova
Writing OVA package: seo.ova
Transfer Completed
Completed successfully
[blysik@Bruces-MacBook-Air veewee (master)]$

Any ideas?

[jedi4ever]

i suspect it's somewhere a shell escaping issue of the command - or the exitcode is indeed not 0 by default . Could you check the exitcode when you execute the command manually?

[blysik]

[blysik@Bruces-iMac veewee (master)]$ /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/VMware\ OVF\ Tool/ovftool --compress=9 /Users/blysik/Documents/Virtual\ Machines.localized/seo.vmwarevm/seo.vmx seo.ova
Opening VMX source: /Users/blysik/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/seo.vmwarevm/seo.vmx
Opening OVA target: seo.ova
Writing OVA package: seo.ova
Transfer Completed
Completed successfully
[blysik@Bruces-iMac veewee (master)]$ echo $?
0
[blysik@Bruces-iMac veewee (master)]$

The error is odd. It seems like when veewee runs the command, the ovftool is looking in the wrong directory or something:

Opening VMX source: /Users/blysik/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/seo.vmwarevm/seo.vmx
Error: Failed to open disk: seo.vmdk

But that file is there:

[blysik@Bruces-iMac veewee (master)]$ ls -a /Users/blysik/Documents/Virtual\ Machines.localized/seo.vmwarevm/seo.vmdk
/Users/blysik/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/seo.vmwarevm/seo.vmdk

[blysik]

Enabled bugging in the export_ova function, and found this:

2013-03-20T14:45:44.409-07:00 [7FFF7535F180 verbose 'Default'] Exception: Failed to open disk: /Users/blysik/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/seo.vmwarevm/seo.vmdk. Reason: The specified virtual disk needs repair

I'm going to go try to repair that with vmware-vdiskmanager.

[blysik]

[blysik@blysik-imac seo.vmwarevm]$ /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-vdiskmanager -R seo.vmdk
No errors were found on the virtual disk, 'seo.vmdk'.
[blysik@blysik-imac seo.vmwarevm]$

Well that wasn't helpful.

[blysik]

Okay, I believe I figured it out. In export_ova, it's not waiting long enough after ensure_vm_stopped (or that function should be waiting and it's not). It was trying to run ovftool before the VM was shut down. I added in a sleep 20 after that, and now it's processing. (I see ovftool running in the process table at least.)

[blysik]

And now I have an ova file! But, I'm confused. What do I do with it? :)

[blysik]

Aha, I see that in in issue #608 "First pass at building Vagrant 1.x boxes with Veewee", this is being hashed out.

[jedi4ever]

@blysik this was merged - could you try again?

[StephenKing]

I now experienced the same yesterday and today. It fails at the first call, the second call works (veewee 0.3.7)

[mpapis]

we have now nice code to ensure the VM stopped, I assume this issue is fixed with it, closing this ticket, please let me know if that is not the case