[BUILDER][VMWARE-ISO] Virtual hardware version stuck to 11

[Jean-François FILIPPI]

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.

[Rickard von Essen]

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.

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[Jean-François FILIPPI]

Using
"vmx_data": {
  "virtualHW.version": "10"
}

solved my issue. Exporting the OVF sets correctly a virtualhw.version = 10 which is compatible with my workstation out of the box.

Thanks for your help Rickard.

Jeff.

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