Changes to VMware OVF metadata

Cross posted with this coreos-status email.

We have planned some changes to the OVF metadata inside the Fedora CoreOS VMware OVA.

Scheduled for the next cycle of testing and next releases:

  • OVF metadata will select UEFI firmware by default
  • OVF metadata will enable Secure Boot by default
  • OVF metadata will identify the OS as Fedora instead of RHEL 7

These changes will flow into stable the week of April 11. You can track the status of this change at Update the VMware OVA to use UEFI/SecureBoot by default, change OS type to `fedora64Guest` · Issue #1140 · coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker · GitHub.

Scheduled for after October 15, when vSphere 6.5 and 6.7 will reach end of life:

  • OVF metadata will update from hardware version 13 to version 17

You can track the status of this change at Update hardware version in VMware OVA after 6.5/6.7 EOL date · Issue #1141 · coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker · GitHub.

If these changes break your deployment workflow, please follow up in the issues listed above or open a new issue.

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