Convert vSphere 5 OVA to Workstation 8?

[DSeaman]

I'm trying to convert a VM from vSphere 5.0 exported as an OVA to Workstation 8.0. The VM is HW version 8 and uses the PVSCSI controller. When I double click on the OVA and import using Workstation 8 I get "the import failed because <VM> did not pass OVF specification conformance or virtual hardware compliance checks. If I go ahead the VM tries to boot then bluescreens.

Converter doesn't seem to be able to directly read OVA files, so I'm not sure how to convert the OVA into a format Workstation 8 can actually boot with. I do NOT want to modify the source VM in anyway, such as changing the SCSI controller. If I use the ovftool.exe and try to export as a VMX I get "unsupported virtual hardware device virtualscsi.

Ideas?

[continuum]

OVA is pretty unreliable IMHO
I would just copy the vmdk plus the vmx manually.
WS 8 can handle the result

[DSeaman]

We need a way to simply transport the VM and make sure it's compressed down to a single file that can be imported with a few clicks, and allow us to specify the target format (EZT, thin, lazy zero). I did find that if I used a "standard" SCSI controller (not the pvscsi controller) in vSphere that WS8 would directly read the OVA and the VM would boot. So I'll continue testing, but I appear to have found a way around the direct import issue.