id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,guest,host
7068,Extra IDE Controller included in OVF export,David J. Malan,,"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.",defect,closed,OVF,VirtualBox 3.2.6,fixed,,,other,Mac OS X