Hi,
I have built a VM, using VMware Studio in OVA format. I defined some custom OVF environment properties in it.
After I built the VM, I opened the .OVF file to see the property values are appeared correctly. They look like the below
<ProductSection ovf:required="false">
<Info>VM ISV branding information</Info>
<Product>xxxxxxxxx</Product>
<Vendor> xxxxxxxxx , Inc.</Vendor>
<Version>x.x.x.x</Version>
<FullVersion>x.x.x.x alpha</FullVersion>
</ProductSection>
I deployed this OVF to a ESXi 4.0 server. Later exported the same VM to OVF format using OVFTool, using the command line
ovftool.exe vi://root:xxxxxxxxxxx@IP/vmname "d:\Virtual Machines\imported-OVF\newVM.ovf"
After the export, I opened the newVM.OVF file and found that the properties (like product, vendor, version etc.) are not retained.
What could be the issue. Please suggest.
--Hemanth