vmware2libvirt fails when converting vmx file created under windows

[Nelson Kwai]

Binary package hint: virt-goodies

in package, virt-goodies 0.3

Ubuntu 9.04, jaunty

Fails with error when converting a vmx file created under windows.

 File "usr/bin/vmware2libvirt", line 85, in get_memory
   memory = int(memsize) * 1024
"ValueEror: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '512"'

Change line 85 from:
value = pat.sub( '', line)[1:-2]

to:
value = pat.sub( '', line.replace("\r","")[1:-2]

[David Llop (dllop)]

Same output. I hope my comment helps to fix it. The .vmx and .vmdk are under the same directory.

$vmware2libvirt -f ./Windows\ XP\ Professional.vmx > Windows\ XP\ Professional.xml
WARN: '/media/DATA/MV/c:\MV\Windows XP Professional.vmdk"' does not exist
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/vmware2libvirt", line 232, in <module>
    </disk>''' + get_network(vmx, bridge) + '''
  File "/usr/bin/vmware2libvirt", line 85, in get_memory
    memory = int(memsize) * 1024
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '512"'

VMX file:

config.version = "8"

virtualHW.version = "4"

scsi0.present = "TRUE"

memsize = "512"

MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"

ide0:0.present = "TRUE"

ide0:0.fileName = "c:\MV\Windows XP Professional.vmdk"

ide1:0.present = "FALSE"

ide1:0.fileName = "auto detect"

ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"

floppy0.present = "FALSE"

ethernet0.present = "TRUE"

ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"

usb.present = "TRUE"

sound.present = "TRUE"

sound.virtualDev = "es1371"

sound.fileName = "-1"

sound.autodetect = "TRUE"

displayName = "Windows XP Professional"

guestOS = "winxppro"

nvram = "Windows XP Professional.nvram"
[...]

Changing ide0:0.fileName = "c:\MV\Windows XP Professional.vmdk" to ide0:0.fileName = "Windows XP Professional.vmdk" I have the same output:

WARN: '/media/DATA/MV/Windows XP Professional.vmdk"' does not exist
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/vmware2libvirt", line 232, in <module>
    </disk>''' + get_network(vmx, bridge) + '''
  File "/usr/bin/vmware2libvirt", line 85, in get_memory
    memory = int(memsize) * 1024
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '512"'

[CuteChaps (sh-senthilkumar)]

I too get the same error,

root@CSS-SMOD:/home/senthil/My Documents/Virtual-Os/Solaris10VVM# vmware2libvirt -f Solaris\ 10.vmx > Solaris-10.xml
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/vmware2libvirt", line 232, in <module>
    </disk>''' + get_network(vmx, bridge) + '''
  File "/usr/bin/vmware2libvirt", line 85, in get_memory
    memory = int(memsize) * 1024
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '256"

[Trey Nolen (ubuntu-bellsouthsux)]

I'm also seeing this issue, but not with Windwos VM. I am using the VMWare image for Ultimate Deployment Appliance. It can be found here: http://www.ultimatedeployment.org/uda14.zip

The error I get is this:
vmware2libvirt -f ./uda14.vmx > uda14.xml
WARN: '/virtroot2/deployment/uda14.vmdk"' does not exist
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/vmware2libvirt", line 232, in <module>
    </disk>''' + get_network(vmx, bridge) + '''
  File "/usr/bin/vmware2libvirt", line 85, in get_memory
    memory = int(memsize) * 1024
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '256"'

Now, the thing is that the WARN: says that this file does not use, but check this out:

tnolen@vserv1:/virtroot2/deployment$ ls -al uda14.vmdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 tnolen tnolen 2147483648 2009-09-30 10:55 uda14.vmdk

Looks like it exists to me....

[doughold (doug-westechsolutions)]

I am having this issue as well. I am trying to move a vmware server 2003 machine to kvm and I get two errors. One is with the disk, it says "A disk read error occurred" (won't get into that here). When I try to conver the vmx file using:

vmware2libvirt -f <vmx_file> > <xml_file>
WARN: '<filename>.vmdk"' does not exist
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/vmware2libvirt", line 232, in <module>
    </disk>''' + get_network(vmx, bridge) + '''
  File "/usr/bin/vmware2libvirt", line 85, in get_memory
    memory = int(memsize) * 1024
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '880"'

File definitely exists and I have converted two other VMWare linux boxes so I know it should work...

[hssxy (e11years)]

Wasn't clear in the original post. The following fix worked for me:

Make this change in the file "usr/bin/vmware2libvirt" :

Change line 85 from:
value = pat.sub( '', line)[1:-2]

to:
value = pat.sub( '', line.replace("\r","")[1:-2]

[Jamin W. Collins (jcollins)]

Just an FYI, the line for me was 65, not 85, and the value to value hssxy is recommending is missing a closing parenthesis, it should be

value = pat.sub( '', line.replace("\r",""))[1:-2]

[Petter Reinholdtsen (pere-hungry)]

I ran into this problem too, and can confirm that the fix from Jamin W. Collins work.

Here is the diff.

--- /tmp/vmware2libvirt 2010-02-17 11:21:15.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/bin/vmware2libvirt 2010-02-17 11:21:31.000000000 +0100
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
     for line in vmx:
         if pat.search(line):
             # extract value without quotes
- value = pat.sub('', line)[1:-2]
+ value = pat.sub( '', line.replace("\r",""))[1:-2]

     if value == "":
         raise V2LError("Bad value for '" + key + "'")

[Petter Reinholdtsen (pere-hungry)]

I believe this issue was fixed in version 0.4.