﻿id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	guest	host
11814	Virtual machine name exceeding 87 characters corrupts OVA file ... => Fixed in SVN	Hans Vledder		"Gents,

Today I ran into an issue importing one of my virtual machines into the VirtualBox Manager. After some investigation I found the length of the virtual machine name to be the root cause of all this. These are the steps to reproduce the problem:

Scenario #1
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1. Create a new virtual machine with a 87 character long name.
2. Export it to OVA format.
3. Rename the OVA file to TAR and open it.
4. The names of the files within the archive will be intact.
5. Importing this machine again will run just fine.

Scenario #2
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1. Create a new virtual machine with a 88 character long name.
2. Export it to OVA format.
3. Rename the OVA file to TAR and open it.
4. The name of the VMDK file within the archive will be truncated.
5. Importing this machine again will fail, because the VMDK cannot be found.

Given the type of compression of the OVA file, the only option I see left to eliminate this problem, is to limit the VM name to 87 characters. Please let me know how and when this issue will be fixed. 

Kind Regards,
Hans Vledder"	defect	closed	other	VirtualBox 4.2.12	fixed			Windows	Windows
