In this case it was the sound card:Īfter you have made these adjustments to the OVF, try to load the file again. To fix this error, open the OVF file and remove the element at the line # in question. No support for the virtual hardware device type '35'.' Details: Line 74: OVF hardware element 'ResourceType' with instance ID '6'. Make sure to select the OVF file, not the original OVA file.Īt this point, you may receive a hardware error: 'The OVF package requires unsupported hardware. Select the OVF file you just edited and click next. Open the VMware vSphere client and connect to your host machine. SHA1 (MyVM.ovf)= 15d2f22b24990179e414df556fe4a2e4697caee7Īt this point you can try to attach the VM to your VMware box. To fix this error, you can just remove the line that references the OVF file. Make a backup copy of the OVF file and then open the OVF file with a text editor such as notepad++.Īfter you have made this change, the checksum in the mf file will no longer match. When you open the archive, you may receive a TAR error. To extract the contents of this file, use 7Zip (right click > '7Zip' > 'Open Archive') to extract the OVA contents. The OVA package wraps an OVF file, a mf checksum file and the actual vmdk or virtual machine disk. To fix this error, you will need to edit the OVF xml file in the OVA package. Details: Line 25: Unsupported hardware family 'virtualbox-2.2'.'. Once the export is complete you can try deploy the OVA to ESXi but you will receive the following error, 'The OVF package requires unsupported hardware. Depending on the size of the machine this could take a while. On the following screen, select a destination for the output file and choose the OVA format and choose 'OVF 1.0' format from the drop down and check the write manifest file box.Ĭlick 'Next' and then click 'Export'. Next select the machine you wish to export and click 'Next'. First shut down the machine and choose 'File' > 'Export Appliance'. To begin you will need to export the VirtualBox machine.

The versions of software used is as follows: After some trial and error I was able to get it to work. I really didn't want to have to start over with a fresh machine set up so I decided to try to export the VirtualBox machine to our VMware host. Recently I had to set up a virtual machine (VM) that would mirror a VirtualBox VM pretty closely.

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