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This document describes how to define a guest operating system for a VM in VMware, for VMware vSphere versions 5 and 6.

Introduction to guest operating system definitions

When you create a VM template, to enable VMware to correctly configure VMs from the template, specify the guest operating system type and version. 

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Hypervisors have their own lists of supported operating systems, for example, VMware has the VirtualMachineGuestOsIdentifier, which you can find in the VMware documentation.


How the cloud platform uses the guest operating system

When you upload an OVA file into the Abiquo cloud platform, it will automatically read the operating system type and version from the OVF.  But you can also edit the VM template in the catalog and define the guest operating system type and version in the Advanced section of the dialog. The platform also uses the guest operating system type to display an appropriate icon and you can configure the icon files for each OS type.

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The table below contains the values you should enter to define the resulting operating system. 


Deploy a Windows 10 64-bit  VM on ESX 5.5+

To deploy a virtual machine with a Windows 10 64-bit guest operating system on ESX 5.5+.

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windows9_64Guest


Deploy a Windows 10 Server VM on ESX 5.5+

To deploy a virtual machine with a Windows 10 Server guest operating system on ESX 5.5+

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windows9Server64Guest


Deploy a CentOS 64-bit VM on ESX 6.7+ 

To configure a CentOS 8 64-bit guest operating system, in the OVF file, you can configure the OperatingSystemSection as follows:

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centos8_64Guest


Table of operating system types

The following table contains the values you should enter in templates in the platform and the corresponding vSphere GuestOsIdentifiers for versions of VMware hypervisors.

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