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‎12-26-2015 05:04 AM

Importing OVF "the ovf package requires unsupported hardware"...

I had a VM in VMWare workstation and export the VM to a OVF package.  I then wanted to import that OVF into my ESXI server as a vm.  The error I get is "the OVF package requires unsupported hadrdware. details: line 25: unsupported hardware family "VMX-12"

I should also mention that the VM was OSX 10.11.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!--Generated by VMware ovftool 4.1.0 (build-3018522), UTC time: 2015-12-26T03:47:48.979643Z-->

<Envelope vmw:buildId="build-3018522" xmlns="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1" xmlns:cim="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/common" xmlns:ovf="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1" xmlns:rasd="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/CIM_ResourceAllocationSettingData" xmlns:vmw="http://www.vmware.com/schema/ovf" xmlns:vssd="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/CIM_VirtualSystemSettingData" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

  <References>

    <File ovf:href="OS_X_10.11-disk1.vmdk" ovf:id="file1" ovf:size="8280973312"/>

  </References>

  <DiskSection>

    <Info>Virtual disk information</Info>

    <Disk ovf:capacity="79" ovf:capacityAllocationUnits="byte * 2^30" ovf:diskId="vmdisk1" ovf:fileRef="file1" ovf:format="http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/specifications/vmdk.html#streamOptimized" ovf:populatedSize="10541858816"/>

  </DiskSection>

  <NetworkSection>

    <Info>The list of logical networks</Info>

    <Network ovf:name="nat">

      <Description>The nat network</Description>

    </Network>

  </NetworkSection>

  <VirtualSystem ovf:id="vm">

    <Info>A virtual machine</Info>

    <Name>OS X 10.11</Name>

    <OperatingSystemSection ovf:id="1" vmw:osType="otherGuest">

      <Info>The kind of installed guest operating system</Info>

    </OperatingSystemSection>

    <VirtualHardwareSection>

      <Info>Virtual hardware requirements</Info>

      <System>

        <vssd:ElementName>Virtual Hardware Family</vssd:ElementName>

        <vssd:InstanceID>0</vssd:InstanceID>

        <vssd:VirtualSystemIdentifier>OS X 10.11</vssd:VirtualSystemIdentifier>

        <vssd:VirtualSystemType>vmx-12</vssd:VirtualSystemType>

      </System>

      <Item>

        <rasd:AllocationUnits>hertz * 10^6</rasd:AllocationUnits>

        <rasd:Description>Number of Virtual CPUs</rasd:Description>

        <rasd:ElementName>2 virtual CPU(s)</rasd:ElementName>

        <rasd:InstanceID>1</rasd:InstanceID>

        <rasd:ResourceType>3</rasd:ResourceType>

        <rasd:VirtualQuantity>2</rasd:VirtualQuantity>

      </Item>

      <Item>

        <rasd:AllocationUnits>byte * 2^20</rasd:AllocationUnits>

        <rasd:Description>Memory Size</rasd:Description>

        <rasd:ElementName>2048MB of memory</rasd:ElementName>

        <rasd:InstanceID>2</rasd:InstanceID>

        <rasd:ResourceType>4</rasd:ResourceType>

        <rasd:VirtualQuantity>2048</rasd:VirtualQuantity>

      </Item>

      <Item>

        <rasd:Address>0</rasd:Address>

        <rasd:Description>SATA Controller</rasd:Description>

        <rasd:ElementName>sataController0</rasd:ElementName>

        <rasd:InstanceID>3</rasd:InstanceID>

        <rasd:ResourceSubType>vmware.sata.ahci</rasd:ResourceSubType>

        <rasd:ResourceType>20</rasd:ResourceType>

      </Item>

      <Item ovf:required="false">

        <rasd:Address>0</rasd:Address>

        <rasd:Description>USB Controller (XHCI)</rasd:Description>

        <rasd:ElementName>usb3</rasd:ElementName>

        <rasd:InstanceID>4</rasd:InstanceID>

        <rasd:ResourceSubType>vmware.usb.xhci</rasd:ResourceSubType>

        <rasd:ResourceType>23</rasd:ResourceType>

      </Item>

      <Item ovf:required="false">

        <rasd:Address>0</rasd:Address>

        <rasd:Description>USB Controller (EHCI)</rasd:Description>

        <rasd:ElementName>usb</rasd:ElementName>

        <rasd:InstanceID>5</rasd:InstanceID>

        <rasd:ResourceSubType>vmware.usb.ehci</rasd:ResourceSubType>

        <rasd:ResourceType>23</rasd:ResourceType>

        <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="ehciEnabled" vmw:value="true"/>

      </Item>

      <Item>

        <rasd:Address>0</rasd:Address>

        <rasd:Description>SCSI Controller</rasd:Description>

        <rasd:ElementName>scsiController0</rasd:ElementName>

        <rasd:InstanceID>6</rasd:InstanceID>

        <rasd:ResourceSubType>lsilogic</rasd:ResourceSubType>

        <rasd:ResourceType>6</rasd:ResourceType>

      </Item>

      <Item>

        <rasd:AddressOnParent>2</rasd:AddressOnParent>

        <rasd:AutomaticAllocation>true</rasd:AutomaticAllocation>

        <rasd:Connection>nat</rasd:Connection>

        <rasd:Description>E1000e ethernet adapter on &quot;nat&quot;</rasd:Description>

        <rasd:ElementName>ethernet0</rasd:ElementName>

        <rasd:InstanceID>7</rasd:InstanceID>

        <rasd:ResourceSubType>E1000e</rasd:ResourceSubType>

        <rasd:ResourceType>10</rasd:ResourceType>

        <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="slotInfo.pciSlotNumber" vmw:value="160"/>

        <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="wakeOnLanEnabled" vmw:value="false"/>

      </Item>

      <Item ovf:required="false">

        <rasd:AutomaticAllocation>false</rasd:AutomaticAllocation>

        <rasd:ElementName>sound</rasd:ElementName>

        <rasd:InstanceID>8</rasd:InstanceID>

        <rasd:ResourceSubType>vmware.soundcard.hdaudio</rasd:ResourceSubType>

        <rasd:ResourceType>1</rasd:ResourceType>

        <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="slotInfo.pciSlotNumber" vmw:value="160"/>

      </Item>

      <Item ovf:required="false">

        <rasd:AutomaticAllocation>false</rasd:AutomaticAllocation>

        <rasd:ElementName>video</rasd:ElementName>

        <rasd:InstanceID>9</rasd:InstanceID>

        <rasd:ResourceType>24</rasd:ResourceType>

        <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="slotInfo.pciSlotNumber" vmw:value="160"/>

      </Item>

      <Item ovf:required="false">

        <rasd:AutomaticAllocation>false</rasd:AutomaticAllocation>

        <rasd:ElementName>vmci</rasd:ElementName>

        <rasd:InstanceID>10</rasd:InstanceID>

        <rasd:ResourceSubType>vmware.vmci</rasd:ResourceSubType>

        <rasd:ResourceType>1</rasd:ResourceType>

        <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="slotInfo.pciSlotNumber" vmw:value="160"/>

      </Item>

      <Item>

        <rasd:AddressOnParent>0</rasd:AddressOnParent>

        <rasd:ElementName>disk0</rasd:ElementName>

        <rasd:HostResource>ovf:/disk/vmdisk1</rasd:HostResource>

        <rasd:InstanceID>11</rasd:InstanceID>

        <rasd:Parent>3</rasd:Parent>

        <rasd:ResourceType>17</rasd:ResourceType>

        <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="slotInfo.pciSlotNumber" vmw:value="160"/>

      </Item>

      <Item ovf:required="false">

        <rasd:AddressOnParent>1</rasd:AddressOnParent>

        <rasd:AutomaticAllocation>false</rasd:AutomaticAllocation>

        <rasd:ElementName>cdrom0</rasd:ElementName>

        <rasd:InstanceID>12</rasd:InstanceID>

        <rasd:Parent>3</rasd:Parent>

        <rasd:ResourceType>15</rasd:ResourceType>

        <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="slotInfo.pciSlotNumber" vmw:value="160"/>

      </Item>

      <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="firmware" vmw:value="efi"/>

      <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="powerOpInfo.powerOffType" vmw:value="soft"/>

      <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="powerOpInfo.resetType" vmw:value="soft"/>

      <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="powerOpInfo.suspendType" vmw:value="soft"/>

    <vmw:ExtraConfig vmw:key="smc.present" vmw:value="TRUE"/></VirtualHardwareSection>

  </VirtualSystem>

</Envelope>

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Sreejesh_D
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‎12-26-2015 08:36 AM

Hi,

Virtual HW verstion 12 ("VMX-12") is not compatible with the current releases of ESXi. Please find the ESXi/ESX hosts and compatible virtual machine hardware versions list in following KB.

VMware KB: ESXi/ESX hosts and compatible virtual machine hardware versions list

You can use the workarounds mentioned in this article to fix the problem. The article is for vmx-10 but it should work for vmx-12 too.

Import OVF Template - Unsupported hardware family 'vmx-10' error ESXi 5.5 - CTOBOB.com PodcastCTOBOB...

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