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OVF deployment issue

Hello to the community, I'm building some OVF templates this week on VMware Workstation 10, using virtual HW version 9 with ESX compatibility enabled, exported them out to a share.  The VM is a Windows 8.1 with SCSI HD.  I attempted to deploy it on one of the ESXi 5.5 hosts and immediately received an error regarding 'unsupported virtual hardware device vmware.sata.ahci'.

This one has me kind of stumped. Opened up the ovf and see it has the typical scsi controller with lsilogicsas, I know the optical drive I have set to IDE -- having that on sata was leading to another ovf deployment issue earlier this year and that was my workaround for that one. I'm suspecting maybe this entry is just leftover from that original drive?

Any thoughts?


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Please attach the original VM's .vmx file as well as the .ovf file you have created to a reply post.

André

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Thanks for the reply. No need to upload as I have it working error-free now. Checked the .vmx on the workstation-side, SATA0 present=TRUE was listed. I changed it to false then exported to OVF again.  This time no errors were generated upon deployment and no mention of vmware.sata.ahci is in the resulting ovf file.

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