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On 12/31/14 10:21 AM, Glen Barber wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 07:06:39PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>> Long ago I had created the quick and really dirty:
>> https://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/vmdkimage-srcs/
>>
>
> Ding! Ding! Ding!
>
> Baptiste wins.
>
> At quick glance, this looks like exactly what I had hoped somebody had
> stashed away somewhere.  Thank you for the link, I'll look at this next
> year.
>
> Glen
>

Bapt mentioned that his .ova files didn't seem to work outside of virtuabox.

I would suggest to re-create the .ova file using my script, but try 
adding one of these two options to the export command:

   VBoxManage export [--legacy09|--ovf09]  <- these options might help?

In the meanwhile I'm making a "virtualbox-ose-lite" port which will in 
turn have a package with many fewer deps which will in turn make this 
less triggering to Glen.


-Alfred