ovf_fiddler.py

gistfile1.txt

# script to edit the OVF Vm descriptor file, in this case change the memory size unit and remove the "System" part in the xml
# this was need to be able to import the OVF Vm from Virtualbox to Vsphere

import lxml.etree as et
import sys
import os

file_name = sys.argv[1]

try:
    os.path.isfile(file_name)
except:
    print("file not found!")

fh = open(file_name)
data = fh.read()
fh.close()

data = data.replace("MegaBytes", "byte * 2^20")
tree = et.fromstring(data)

ns = {
    "def": "http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1",
    "ovf": "http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1",
    "rasd": "http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/CIM_ResourceAllocationSettingData",
    "vssd": "http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/CIM_VirtualSystemSettingData",
    "xsi": "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance",
    "vbox": "http://www.virtualbox.org/ovf/machine"}

for bad in tree.xpath("//def:System", namespaces=ns):
    bad.getparent().remove(bad)

#print et.tostring(tree, pretty_print=True)
#os.rename(file_name, file_name + '.bak')

fh = open(file_name, "w+")
fh.write(et.tostring(tree))
fh.close