https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/deploying-fmcv-to-vmware/m-p/5376166#M1124704 <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="vmware transfer errors.png" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://community.cisco.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/260963i645AEF8E1908F363/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="vmware transfer errors.png" alt="vmware transfer errors.png" /></span></P><P>This is the rather unhelpful error that VMware gives.</P> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:00:37 GMT jturner2720 2026-03-12T09:00:37Z https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/deploying-fmcv-to-vmware/m-p/5375963#M1124702 <P>I'm considering upgrading to the new FMC/FTD 10.x, so thought I would try deploying another FMCv to see what the upgrade experience was before actually doing my production instances.</P><P>However, I cannot get the OVF to deploy onto vSphere 8. I've tried both 7.4.6 and 7.6.5 and both fail out with transfer errors deploying the package. My previous instances were deployed onto vSphere 7 which were later upgraded.</P><P>Anyone seen similar and/or have some ideas of ways to get it to deploy?</P> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:59:52 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/deploying-fmcv-to-vmware/m-p/5375963#M1124702 jturner2720 2026-03-11T15:59:52Z https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/deploying-fmcv-to-vmware/m-p/5376150#M1124703 <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp; -&nbsp;<a href="https://community.cisco.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/312132">@jturner2720</a>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Can you post these transfer errors ?</P> <P>&nbsp; M.</P> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:00:53 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/deploying-fmcv-to-vmware/m-p/5376150#M1124703 Mark Elsen 2026-03-12T08:00:53Z https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/deploying-fmcv-to-vmware/m-p/5376166#M1124704 <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="vmware transfer errors.png" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://community.cisco.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/260963i645AEF8E1908F363/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="vmware transfer errors.png" alt="vmware transfer errors.png" /></span></P><P>This is the rather unhelpful error that VMware gives.</P> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:00:37 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/deploying-fmcv-to-vmware/m-p/5376166#M1124704 jturner2720 2026-03-12T09:00:37Z https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/deploying-fmcv-to-vmware/m-p/5376174#M1124705 <P>I've managed to solve it. Looks like the zip tool built in to Win11 mangles extracting. Whereas using 7zip instead and it all works.</P> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:44:59 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/deploying-fmcv-to-vmware/m-p/5376174#M1124705 jturner2720 2026-03-12T09:44:59Z https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/deploying-fmcv-to-vmware/m-p/5376207#M1124707 <P>This is a known issue with tar.gz files in Windows. You can also use "tar -xvf &lt;filename&gt;" from the Windows cli to get it unzipped.</P> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:36:04 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/deploying-fmcv-to-vmware/m-p/5376207#M1124707 Marvin Rhoads 2026-03-12T12:36:04Z