“The operation is not supported on the object” encountered when deploy VM from Template.
Today, when I deploy a CentOS VM from Template, I’ve encountered an error:
Reconfigure virtual machine Status showing “The operation is not supported on the object”
Googled around and find nothing, then I realized it’s probably something to do with the hardware configuration. I checked the vmfs configuration file and found ddb.adapterType = “lsilogic”, after remove it, everything is back to normal, of course, I’ve updated my template as well. It’s due to the CentOS template VM Disk Controller has been changed and the old configuration was still kept somehow.
I also discover deploy a Linux VM somehow will add new a NIC, the solution is to remove the nic.bak, and reconfigure the IP on the new eth0.
Update Jun-21-2011
I’ve encountered the same problem today when deploy from a w2k8r2 template, the annoying alert simply won’t go away. Luckily, I’ve found out the solution by trial and error. Simply convert the Template to VM, then to Template solved the problem completely. I suspect this is a bug in ESX 4.1, the original template was Cloned from the running VM, may be that’s why!
