Re: Failed .ovf package deployement - Incompatible device backing specified for device '7'

Hi dGeorgey,

Following your advice I checked once again .ovf file with respect to devices included there.

It seems the problem with deploying the package to install vm on esxi 5.5 based on the image exported from the same esxi 5.5 manifesting itself with the error message:

"Failed .ovf package deployement - Incompatible device backing specified for device '7'"

results from the following part :

      <Item ovf:required="false">

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

        <rasd:ElementName>Serial 1</rasd:ElementName>

        <rasd:InstanceID>17</rasd:InstanceID>

        <rasd:ResourceSubType>vmware.serialport.pipe</rasd:ResourceSubType>

        <rasd:ResourceType>21</rasd:ResourceType>

        <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="backing.endpoint" vmw:value="server" />

        <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="backing.noRxLoss" vmw:value="false" />

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

      </Item>

After removing it from the code I was able to successfully deploy and confgure installed virtual machine.

Thank you once again!

elra