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I am having trouble importing a Virtual Machine into VMWare ESXi. &nbsp;The original virtual machine was created and is on VMWare Virtual Server 2.0. &nbsp;I used the ovftool so that I could convert and then use the Import Virtual Appliance tool in the Infrastructure Client. &nbsp;However, when I finally go through the import process I get the error: The hardware family of the OVF package is not supported: vmx-07. I found that this error message had to do with the virtual hardware version. &nbsp;I was able to roll the hardware version back to version 6 by using VMWare converter. &nbsp;Still no luck. &nbsp;I get the same error except with vmx-06. &nbsp;The one virtual machine that I created on ESXi has hardware version 4. &nbsp;Does anyone know a way around the hardware version issue? &nbsp;Thanks for any help in advance.
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I am having trouble importing a Virtual Machine into VMWare ESXi.  The original virtual machine was created and is on VMWare Virtual Server 2.0.  I used the ovftool so that I could convert and then use the Import Virtual Appliance tool in the Infrastructure Client.  However, when I finally go through the import process I get the error: The hardware family of the OVF package is not supported: vmx-07. I found that this error message had to do with the virtual hardware version.  I was able to roll the hardware version back to version 6 by using VMWare converter.  Still no luck.  I get the same error except with vmx-06.  The one virtual machine that I created on ESXi has hardware version 4.  Does anyone know a way around the hardware version issue?  Thanks for any help in advance.

Can't Import Virtual Applicance

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.