Problem exporting to OVF or OVA fixed

[Karl Konigsson]

Today I encountered a weird problem: I wanted to export a virtual machine from my macOS installation to hand over to a friend. I selected the machine from the Library window and selected "Export to OVF…" from the file menu. This did not work as the export was rather abruptly aborted with the error message "Could not find file : /Users/<username>/Library/Logs/VMware Fusion/ovftool.log

It turned out that the problem is that there is no log directory named "VMware Fusion", only one called"VMware". The solution is to open a terminal and do the following:

• cd /Users/<username>/Library/Logs
• ln -s VMware "VMware Fusion"

After this my exports worked flawlessly.

[Technogeezer]

I would suggest not creating the symlink but instead create a VMware Fusion directory with appropriate permissions in  ~/Library/Logs.

I'm finding that in my Fusion installation, there are both VMware Fusion and VMware folders in ~/Library/Logs: (i've edited the output so that it redacted my real username)

% ls -ald VMware*
drwxr-xr-x  28 username  staff  896 Feb  3 17:38 VMware
drwxr-xr-x@ 16 username  staff  512 Feb  3 17:20 VMware Fusion

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- Paul (technogeezer)
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[Karl Konigsson]

I considered that solution but ultimately opted for the symlink as I was not sure if what I saw was a due to both directories should be there but not created, or if it was just a case of the directory named "VMware Fusion" was an artifact in the code. Given your reply I understand that it was the first case and I will change my setup accordingly.

Thanks

K