Failed to Export Virtual Appliance: An item with the same key has already been added

September 4, 2010 at 8:14 PMRampidByter

I tried to export a virtual machine from my VMWare ESXi server for the first time, and received the error “Failed to Export Virtual Appliance: An item with the same key has already been added.” It didn’t make sense to me at all. Come to find out that you’ll need to open the snapshot manager for the virtual machine, and delete all snapshots taken of the virtual machine. Once you do so you’ll be able to export the virtual machine. Yah, I don’t know why that is required either, but that is the solution.

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