chipset.motherboardLayout is automatically changed to "acpi" when provisioning a virtual machine from the Content Library after upgrading the hardware version to 20 and higher.

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

It has been observed that chipset.motherboardLayout is automatically changed to "acpi" in the VMX file when provisioning a virtual machine via the Content Library, even if the VM template contains chipset.motherboardLayout = "i440bx".

From the VM template,

$ grep chipset *.vmtx chipset.motherboardLayout = "i440bx"

From the Virtual Machine deployed via the Contents Library,

$ grep chipset' *.vmx chipset.motherboardLayout = "acpi"

 

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi 8.0

Cause

The content library doesn't preserve chipset.motherboardLayout property while cloning the VM template to the Content Library as OVF file.

Resolution

This issue will be addressed in the future release.