I’ve been using Cisco CSR1000v as my virtual router in my lab environment for a very long time recently, I noticed a few issues with ova file deployment.
Step 1: Extract the ova file (7-Zip or tar on Windows,macOS & Linux)
Step 2: Update the ovf file (search and replace “VMXNET3 virtio” to “VMXNET3”)
Step 3: Update the checksum file (.mf) – certutil or MD5 in MacOS; when you update the ovf file in step 3, the file checksum would have changed, so we need to find the new checksum and update .mf file with a new checksum for ovf file.
Step 4: Deploy without packaging (ova) – you could deploy as ovf or package it back to ova and deploy.