The Cisco UCS Platform Emulator is a handy tool for anyone wanting to experiment with the XML API. Unfortunately they craft their OVA so it doesn't cleanly import in to Virtualbox. They officially support running it on various VMware visualizer products. If you try to import it in Virtualbox you get an error like this, "Failed to import applianceCisco_UCS_Platform_Emulator_2.1.1aPE3.ova Medium is already attached to port 1, device 0 of controller 'IDE Controller' of this virtual machine"
If you're like me, then that just won't do. In order to run it under Virtualbox, just extract the OVA, convert the vmdk files to vdi files using vboxmanage, create a new generic 32bit VM with disks 1 - 4 attached, 3 nics, 1 proc, 2 GB of RAM, start it up and away you go.
Happy hacking!
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