virtualhw.version is a VMware specific thing, I doubt that OVF (which is a standard) supports it. The simplest way to check this is probably unpacking the ovf and check if the metadata contains this. If not I guess when VMware imports the ovf it defaults to version 11.
On Nov 10, 2016 10:04 AM, "Jean-François FILIPPI" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently using Packer 0.10.2 (on Windows 7 x64). > > Running a vmware-iso builder (on a VMware Workstation 10) with those > parameters : > > { > "boot_command": [ > "<esc><wait>", > "auto url=http://some-ip/preseed.cfg <wait>", > "<enter><wait>" > ], > "iso_checksum": "{{user `iso_checksum`}}", > "iso_checksum_type": "{{user `iso_checksum_type`}}", > "iso_url": "{{user `iso_url`}}", > "ssh_password": "{{user `ssh_password`}}", > "ssh_username": "root", > "ssh_port": "{{user `ssh_port`}}", > "ssh_wait_timeout": "10000s", > "type": "vmware-iso", > "disk_size": "{{user `disk_size`}}", > "disk_type_id": 0, > "vmx_data": { > "cpuid.coresPerSocket": "1", > "memsize": "{{user `memory`}}", > "numvcpus": "{{user `core`}}" > }, > "guest_os_type": "debian7-64", > "output_directory": "{{user `path`}}", > "vmdk_name": "{{user `vm_name`}}", > "vm_name": "{{user `vm_name`}}", > "shutdown_command": "shutdown -P now", > "version": "9" > } > > and with some provisioning outputs a working virtual machine. Except when > I'm exporting it to an OVF, then importing to another computer, the > virtualhw.version > is set to 11 even though I specified as 9 in the building phase, which > should be the default value according to the documentation. > > Before using packer all my manually-built virtual machines were rightly > exported with a virtualhw.version of 9. Is this a (known) bug ? Did I > mistakenly configured my builder ? > > Thanks a lot > > Jeff. > > -- > This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - > https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in > violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing > list. > > GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues > IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Packer" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/packer-tool/66796bb8-07e5-4c4c-8ba6-12c830c1cc32%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/66796bb8-07e5-4c4c-8ba6-12c830c1cc32%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Packer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/CALz9Rt86xmzRwFZ9rTq%2Bty9h25Zxj-wZRkOtd%2BpCCYjHBDcF5Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
