What were you trying to do that didn't work?

Import .ova file generated by Image Builder into vSphere

Please provide the package NVR for which bug is seen:

osbuild-composer-88.2-1.el9_3.x86_64

How reproducible:

every time

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a .ova file with Image Builder
2. Attempt to import the image into vSphere
3. Importing fails with "the .ovf template must be the first file in the archive"

Expected results

Importing should work properly.

Actual results

vSphere requires that the first file in the OVA is the .ovf template, however Image Builder packs the .vmdk first. This results in an error during import.

Since .ova is a tar archive we're able to work around this issue by repacking the archive with the correct file order, but this should work as expected without extra steps.