[Bug 2062552] Re: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Cloud Image ova error during deployment

[Aditya Irawan]

1. I was testing this on VMware ESXi, 7.0.3, 20842708 (that is ESXi 7 Update 3i).
3. Since you mentioned this, I did further investigation. 
I had deployed Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish) [20230302] successfully before, and you're right, its ovf file contained the exact same serial port configuration. But when I tried to deploy it again just now, it failed.
I suspect this has got to do with the Cloud Director, because the deployment process has not reached vSphere yet. Also, between the last successful cloud image deployment and now, we have not do any changes to the ESXi version, but did an upgrade to the Cloud Director 10.4.2.22463311.
So I believe this has got nothing to do with cloud images as it worked before and will try to raise an issue with VMware regarding this error.

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Title:
  Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Cloud Image ova error during deployment

Status in cloud-images:
  New
Status in livecd-rootfs package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Cloud Image daily (20240416)
  File: noble-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova
  Error: OVF's rasd item with instance ID=4 has invalid serial port config.
  Deploy to: VMware Cloud Director 10.4.2.22463311, VMware ESXi, 7.0.3, 20842708

  Detail debug: 
  com.vmware.vcloud.api.presentation.service.BadRequestException: OVF's rasd item with instance ID=4 has invalid serial port config.
  	at com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.storage.copy.impl.OvfTransferManagerImpl.validateSerialPortConfig(OvfTransferManagerImpl.java:737)
  	at com.vmware.ssdc.backend.services.impl.VAppUploadManagerImpl.handleUploadOvfDescriptor(VAppUploadManagerImpl.java:2180)
  	at com.vmware.ssdc.backend.services.impl.VAppUploadManagerImpl.handleUploadBody(VAppUploadManagerImpl.java:2060)
  	at com.vmware.ssdc.backend.services.impl.VAppUploadManagerImpl.handleUpload(VAppUploadManagerImpl.java:1957)
  	at com.vmware.ssdc.backend.services.impl.VAppUploadManagerImpl.executeTask(VAppUploadManagerImpl.java:5285)
  	at com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.TaskActivity$ExecutePhase$1.doInSecurityContext(TaskActivity.java:828)
  	at com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.TaskActivity$ExecutePhase$1.doInSecurityContext(TaskActivity.java:823)
  	at com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.SecurityContextTemplate.executeForOrgAndUser(SecurityContextTemplate.java:49)
  	at com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.TaskActivity$ExecutePhase.execute(TaskActivity.java:830)
  	at com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.TaskActivity$ExecutePhase.invokeInner(TaskActivity.java:726)
  	at com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.TaskActivity$TaskActivityBasePhase.invoke(TaskActivity.java:342)
  	at com.vmware.vcloud.activity.executors.ActivityRunner.runPhase(ActivityRunner.java:175)
  	at com.vmware.vcloud.activity.executors.ActivityRunner.run(ActivityRunner.java:112)
  	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:515)
  	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
  	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128)
  	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628)
  	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)

  It appears that .ovf file contains serial port configuration.
        <Item ovf:required="false">
          <rasd:AutomaticAllocation>false</rasd:AutomaticAllocation>
          <rasd:ElementName>serial0</rasd:ElementName>
          <rasd:InstanceID>4</rasd:InstanceID>
          <rasd:ResourceSubType>vmware.serialport.device</rasd:ResourceSubType>
          <rasd:ResourceType>21</rasd:ResourceType>
          <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="yieldOnPoll" vmw:value="false" />
        </Item>

  OVF file shouldn't include serial port:
  https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2128084

  I was able to deploy the cloud image after removing serial port
  configuration from the ovf file.

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