/tags/vmware-workstation/ Recent content in VMWare Workstation on Amit Agarwal Linux Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en Wed, 06 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0530 /2022/07/06/vmware-workstation-import-ova/ Wed, 06 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0530 /2022/07/06/vmware-workstation-import-ova/ <h1 id="vmware-workstation---ova-import-not-working">VMWare workstation - ova import not working</h1> <p>When importing ova and/or ovf files, if Workstation does not give any error but does not import the file as well, try importing the file in VMWare Player. When you do that, you will see that if the import fails, player will show a dialogue with log file name similar to <strong>/tmp/vmaware-&lt;amitag&gt;/<somefile></strong>.</p> <p>From there, I was able to find out that, it was running <em>ovftool.bin</em>. Try to run that in a terminal and immediately I could see that libnsl was missing so, I just installed the same with</p>