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MattPietrek
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Looking for clarity on CpuCompatibilitySection and where/when it's not supported

We use ovftool as part of a custom import process that our customers use to bring OVFs into our environment.

After upgrading to ovftool 2.1 (which we needed to do to support HW V8), we started seeing messages like this: "Target does not support CPU validation."

Digging through the support forums, I found a few references to the issue being the CpuCompatibilitySection, and that commenting it out might fix the issue. In particular, this thread:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/337173

Since we have very little control over what customers upload to us, I don't want to just blindly scan every VMX file prior to running ovftool and strip out the CpuCompatibility section without knowing *why* I'm doing it. I'm looking for something more definitive about exactly which circumstances it's not supported on. For instance:

- Is the issue only with some target hardware versions?

- Only some target hosts (e.g. vsphere 5.1)?

- Is this section only present when exported from certain host platforms (e.g. Fusion)?

- Does ovftool 3.01 handle this differently or provide some workaround?

Also, some background as to why it's not supported would help me know that I'm doing the right thing in the right circumstances.

Thanks much for any help you can provide,

Matt

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MattPietrek
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Anybody have any sort of reply?

My question seems germane to the topic of this List, and provides enough details and specific questions that it could be reasonably answered, even if the answer is "VMWare doesn't document this." or "You're not understanding something".

Thanks much,

Matt

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