Ability to force the import of an OVA

[fad3t]

Hello,

I'm trying to import the latest version of an OVA (Ubuntu cloud images) which is already present on the vCenter -- however the build is older. When doing the import.ova I'm getting the following (expected) error:

govc: The name 'jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64' already exists.

I was hoping there would be a -force=true flag as in the import.vmdk command but that's not the case. Any chance this could get implemented? Or would there be a workaround to this?

Thank you

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[fad3t]

Hi, any feedback on this? Thanks

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[fad3t]

In case anyone else is looking for this feature, I worked around by doing this:

govc vm.destroy jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64 || true
govc import.ova -ds=<DATASTORE> -name=jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64 -options=<OPTS> <URL>