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If you have a vSphere or Workstation 7 environment like me and you export a virtual machine to an OVF format, older VMware products are unable to import them. You'll get a message like:

'unsupported hardware family vm-07'

 or

'host does not support the virtual hardware version'

 

To resolve this follow these simple steps:

• create a new VM with the specs of the OVF template
• export that VM to an OVF
• copy the OVF file to the directory of the VM you're trying to import
• edit that new file and change the  part to what is says in the original OVF file
• save and close

now you can import the VM without any problems in the older environment.