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Introduction to guest operating system definitions

When you create a VM template, to enable VMware hypervisors to correctly configure VMs from the template, specify the guest operating system type and version. In an OVF file that describes a VM template, you can specify the operating system using the CIM standard ID number and a version number.  CIM means  "common information model" and DMTF maintains this standard. The main website for DMTF's CIM standard is https://www.dmtf.org/standards/cim/. The DMTF issues new versions periodically. 

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 multi-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. Abiquo interprets the CIM numeric codes. But you can also edit the VM template in the catalog and set the guest operating system type and version. The multi-cloud 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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For a table of the values to use to define the resulting operating systems, see see Guest operating system definition for VMware. 

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To deploy a virtual machine with a a Windows 10 64 64-bit guest operating system on on ESXi 6.0+, set the following values are set in the Operating System Section of the OVF file or the OVA.

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   <osType>WINDOWS_10_64</osType>
   <osVersion>Server</osVersion>
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The template definition will deploy on ESXi 6.X+ with the following OS type and version, which VMware uses to represent 64-bit Windows 10 server guests.

windows9Server64Guest

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   <osType>CENTOS_64</osType>
   <osVersion>8</osVersion>
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The template definition will deploy on ESXi 6.7+ as the following OS type.

centos8_64Guest

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