ddb.virtualHWVersion is hardcoded

[martin-langhoff]

It is important that ddb.virtualHWVersion is updated to at least v9, and ideally, made configurable.

[martin-langhoff]

This line

VMDK-stream-converter/VMDKstream.py

Line 79 in dafa079

ddb.virtualHWVersion = "7"'''

needs to say 9 at least; probably 11 is a more current value, tracking supported VMWare versions. 14 is very latest.

Reference of hw versions - https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1003746

See how this article indicates HW Version 9 - https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/52085

[ausil]

@breillyr FYI

[spstarr]

Could we have a new build spun if a release can be made? Fedora currently is at VMDKstream-0.3-6.fc27.noarch but neither 28/rawhide contain updated RPM.

[dtoubelis]

There you go #11

[j5awry]

Commenting to add a +1 to @dtoubelis solution. I was coming here to propose a similar solution. ESX 7 uses 13 and ESX 6.5 uses 11.

[dtoubelis]

@j5awry These changes are in master on our fork and the fork is maintained (we use it in our CI/CD for building our OVA images). Feel free to use it until this is merged.