OVF Appliance Import failed: Host resource of type “Other Storage Device (20)” is supported with SATA AHCI controllers only, line 47

When you have .ovf file from VMWare and get the following message:

“Host resource of type “Other Storage Device (20)” is supported with SATA AHCI controllers only, line 47″

The quickest solution is to open it with any text/xml editor, and
1. replace word “ElementName” with word “Caption” in the whole file
2. replace “vmware.sata.ahci” with “AHCI”

5 comments

  1. Thanks for this post. It solved the host resource issue and allowed the appliance import to start. However, the import failed due to mismatched hashes in the modified file. Any ideas how to get past this one?

    Failed to import appliance …/Win7.ovf.

    The SHA digest of ‘Windows7-x64.ovf’ does not match the one in ‘Win7.mf’ (VERR_MANIFEST_DIGEST_MISMATCH).

    Result Code: VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80BB0004)
    Component: ApplianceWrap
    Interface: IAppliance {8398f026-4add-4474-5bc3-2f9f2140b23e}

      1. Actually, I realized I just needed to compute a new SHA1 hash for the modified ovf file (sha1sum on linux) and replace the old one for the new on in the mf file. That worked fine.

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