Ticket #7068 (closed defect: fixed)
Extra IDE Controller included in OVF export
Reported by: | malan | Owned by: | |
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Component: | OVF | Version: | VirtualBox 3.2.6 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Guest type: | other | Host type: | Mac OS X |
Description
When exporting an appliance on VirtualBox 3.2.6 (and perhaps 3.2.x more generally) that has only 1 IDE controller defined (with only virtual disk attached), per the attached screenshot, the resulting OVF file nonetheless has two IDE controllers defined:
<Item> <rasd:Address>0</rasd:Address> <rasd:Caption>ideController0</rasd:Caption> <rasd:Description>IDE Controller</rasd:Description> <rasd:ElementName>ideController0</rasd:ElementName> <rasd:InstanceID>3</rasd:InstanceID> <rasd:ResourceSubType>PIIX4</rasd:ResourceSubType> <rasd:ResourceType>5</rasd:ResourceType> </Item> <Item> <rasd:Address>1</rasd:Address> <rasd:Caption>ideController1</rasd:Caption> <rasd:Description>IDE Controller</rasd:Description> <rasd:ElementName>ideController1</rasd:ElementName> <rasd:InstanceID>4</rasd:InstanceID> <rasd:ResourceSubType>PIIX4</rasd:ResourceSubType> <rasd:ResourceType>5</rasd:ResourceType> </Item>
When this appliance is imported on VirtualBox 3.1.x (i.e., older versions), the import fails because 3.1.x appears not to support imports of appliances with multiple IDE controllers. A workaround is to delete the second Item element above from the OVF file prior to import.
Older versions of VirtualBox (3.1.x I *think*) did not include this additional IDE controller when exporting appliances.
Happy to provide additional details as needed.