I finally managed to create an OVA that can be deployed on both ESXi4, VirtualBox and VMware Workstation.

I had to create and OVF with VirtualBox, edit it to change the hardware type from virtualbox-2.2 to vmx-7 and then use VMware ovftool to convert the ovf to OVA.

When deployed on ESXi4, it will complain about the guest os not being recognized, but you can still deploy it and later change the guest os setting.

Happy downloading.