commons.ova deploy error on vmware esx - Unsupported hardware family 'virtualbox-2.2'

I downloaded Perforce commons OVA file commons.ova and when I tried to deploy it on VMWare ESX server, it failed with the error

Error: OVF Package is not supported by target: - Line 25: Unsupported hardware family 'virtualbox-2.2'.

Here the issue is with the commons.ovf file inside commons.ova . It defined virtual system type as virtualbox-2.2, which is a Oracle Open source virtualization product. Hence VMWare doesn't understand it.

    <vssd:VirtualSystemType>virtualbox-2.2</vssd:VirtualSystemType>

We need to change it from virtualbox-2.2 to vmx-04 a VMWare format in that file.

Here are the steps to modify .ovf file inside .ova on linux system

• Copy .ova file (commons.ova) to a Linux system
• Extract ova file using tar utility

            tar xvf commons.ova

       Now you will get the following files

           commons-disk1.vmdk  commons.ovf

•  Edit the .ovf file (commons.ovf) and do following changes 

               vi commons.ovf   (change the below line as shown)
            1) Replace  virtualbox-2.2 with vmx-04

              <vssd:VirtualSystemType>vmx-04</vssd:VirtualSystemType>

            2) To fix the error Line 66: OVF hardware element 'ResourceType' with instance ID '5': No support for the virtual hardware device type '2

  changed this item:

      <Item>

        <rasd:Address>0</rasd:Address>

        <rasd:Caption>sataController0</rasd:Caption>

        <rasd:Description>SATA Controller</rasd:Description>

        <rasd:ElementName>sataController0</rasd:ElementName>

        <rasd:InstanceID>5</rasd:InstanceID>

        <rasd:ResourceSubType>AHCI</rasd:ResourceSubType>

        <rasd:ResourceType>20</rasd:ResourceType>

      </Item>

into this item:

     <Item>
        <rasd:Address>0</rasd:Address>
        <rasd:Caption>SCSIController</rasd:Caption>
        <rasd:Description>SCSI Controller</rasd:Description>
        <rasd:ElementName>SCSIController</rasd:ElementName>
        <rasd:InstanceID>5</rasd:InstanceID>
        <rasd:ResourceSubType>lsilogic</rasd:ResourceSubType>
        <rasd:ResourceType>6</rasd:ResourceType>
      </Item>

           

• Convert ovf back to ova again. You should have installed 'ovftool' utility on your machine

           ovftool commons.ovf commons.ova

        Deploy it on your ESX server now. There shouldn't be any issue.