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I tried to import OVA (from VMware Workstation) to GCP Compute Engine Instance, but whole process failed after VMDK disk image to RAW format conversion, when executing following activities in importer VM:

Apr 22 13:50:32 inst-translator-import-ovf-translate-translate-disk-l2myq startup-script: INFO startup-script-url: commandrvf: /bin/sh -c "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends google-cloud-sdk"

Apr 22 13:50:40 inst-translator-import-ovf-translate-translate-disk-l2myq startup-script: INFO startup-script-url: E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I can attach whole build log if, more information is needed.

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Lukasz Nowakowski
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    At which step from [the import](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/import/importing-virtual-disks) did you get stuck? – Juancki Apr 24 '20 at 08:43
  • It was acctually, an [import of full OVA](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/import/import-ovf-files). Based on Cloud Build logs stored in Bucket, import of boot disk was successfull, but then it failed in `inst-translator-import-ovf-translate-translate-disk` VM while running `startup-script-url` with this:```INFO startup-script-url: guestfsd: error: E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.``` – Lukasz Nowakowski Apr 27 '20 at 06:45

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Run the pre check tool to see if there is any compatibility issues pre/post import

Can you run the following command with the ‘--verbosity=debug’ when importing the image. Any import errors will present itself here :

gcloud compute instances import foob --source-uri gs://[BUCKET]/image.ova --os [OS-type] --zone [ZONE_NAME] --verbosity=debug

The initial error means that the given OS version isn't tested for compatibility, and note that you must configure the bootloader correctly so it is able to boot up on GCE. So remove any Spashimage, rhgb and kernel command line arguments.

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  • I did run pre-check, it was fine, OS is also supported (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS), currently I'm trying with VMDK disk import instead of full OVA, but it's still a failure only (it succeeded once however, without any particular reason). Full import log can be cheked here: https://pastebin.pl/view/raw/36043313 – Lukasz Nowakowski May 04 '20 at 12:26
  • I was able to build it out in my environment by using a Cloud Image from Ubuntus's repo: https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/ can you perhaps upload the daisy logs? just make sure to sanitize sensitive information from them. the path will look something like this: https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/browser/thomas-dev-ovf-import-bkt-us-west2 otherwise, I will able to successfully create an instance without any issues. – Cam May 04 '20 at 16:48