Cannot find a valid box with a VMX file in tar archive
See original GitHub issueusing vmware-workstation 16 debian 10(buster) kernel 4.19 mech 0.7.6
whatever box i am trying to use, i am getting same error:
tar: Pattern matching characters used in file names
tar: Use --wildcards to enable pattern matching, or --no-wildcards to suppress this warning
tar: *.vmx: Not found in archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
Cannot find a valid box with a VMX file in it
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I was able to hack it by editing this function:
i just added
--wildcard
into tar list and seems to work but it is not by a long shot the direct answerIf you figure out an appropriate solution here a PR would be welcome!