Problem:

I was attempting to deploy the Zabbix 3.4.x appliance consistiing of an OVF and singled VMDK to a UAT vCenter 5.5 deployment. The following error appeared:

The OVF package requires unsupported hardware.

Details: Line 25: Unsupported hardware family 'virtualbox-2.2'

 

 

Solution

 

Edit the OVF (in my case I used notepad++)

 

Change line 29 from virtual box-2.2

to vmx-10

However this did not fix the issue and the folllowing error appeared:

The OVF package requires unsupported hardware

Details: Line 66: OVF hardware element 'Resource Type' instance ID '5': No support for the virtual hardware device

To fix this issue we need to make a further change

Change this config item

to this: