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OVF uses DMTF's common information model, or CIM standard. The main website for https://www.dmtf.org/standards/cim/. The DMTF issues new versions periodically.
Hypervisors have their own lists of supported operating systems , for based on specific versions of the CIM standard. For example, VMware has the VirtualMachineGuestOsIdentifier, which you can find in the VMware documentation.
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The following values are set in the Operating System Section of the OVF file or the OVA.
The "ovf:id" is an identifier from the CIM standard. You can find it in the CIM_OperatingSystem.mof file of the CIM standard.
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<VirtualSystem ovf:id="vm">
<Info>A virtual machine</Info>
<Name>WinDev1810Eval</Name>
<OperatingSystemSection ovf:id="121" vmw:osType="windows9_64Guest">
<Info>The kind of installed guest operating system</Info>
</OperatingSystemSection> |
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