Exporting a virtual machine to an OVF template fails

Symptoms

• Exporting a virtual machine to an OVF template fails
• VPXD fails with a Panic in VpxdViConsumerContext::AddError()
• The backtrace appears similar to:
  
  backtrace[04] eip 0x00b3f998 Panic (d:\src\vc40\vpx\common\vpxlog.cpp:258)
  backtrace[05] eip 0x013a1581 VpxdViConsumerContext::AddError (d:\src\vc40\vpx\vpxd\vapp\vpxdviconsumercontext.cpp:92)
  backtrace[06] eip 0x01767c18 Ovf::Vi2Consumer::GetDeviceIdAndAdapterType (d:\src\vimbase-vc40\vim\lib\ovf\consumer.cpp:1589)
  backtrace[07] eip 0x0176758e Ovf::Vi2Consumer::FindFiles (d:\src\vimbase-vc40\vim\lib\ovf\consumer.cpp:1540)
  backtrace[08] eip 0x01766d45 Ovf::Vi2Consumer::BuildFileList (d:\src\vimbase-vc40\vim\lib\ovf\consumer.cpp:1398)
  backtrace[09] eip 0x01766b10 Ovf::Vi2Consumer::GetIR (d:\src\vimbase-vc40\vim\lib\ovf\consumer.cpp:1373)
  backtrace[10] eip 0x0131a145 VpxdMoOvfManager::CreateDescriptor (d:\src\vc40\vpx\vpxd\vapp\vpxdmoovfmanager.cpp:793)

Resolution

This issue occurs when you create a virtual machine with a PVSCSI (VMware Paravirtualization) controller and attempt to export the virtual machine to an OVF template.

This is the only controller that VMware does not support when exporting to OVF template.