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Can't import OVA file or unpack it with tar

I'm on an Arch-based Linux with VirtualBox (generic installer, couldn't load modules with host-modules-arch) and I get this error whenever I try to import this OVA file:

Error reading OVA '.../coa-aio-newton.ova' (VERR_TAR_UNEXPECTED_EOS) Result Code: VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0X80BB0005) Component: ApplianceWrap Interface: IAppliance {86a98347-7619-41aa-aece-b21ac5c1a7e6}

Apparently, these OVA files should be unpackable but tar doesn't recognize it, and neither Ark or PeaZip can unzip this, but importing this OVA file works on Win 10.

I've tried using VMWare but that gave me an import error too. Why can't virtualization work at all on Arch-based systems?

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