Re: [libvirt] esx driver: XML format for guest OS type/variant
2011/1/13 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com>:
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 09:50:52AM +0100, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> Actually, for the ESX/VMware and VirtualBox driver I don't really care
> about detailed OS inspection, I think. The initial point was that some
> hypervisors allow to specify OS type and distro in order to enable OS
> dependent stuff like optimizations and workarounds. But libvirt
> currently doesn't allow you to specify this in the XML config in order
> to pass this information to the driver.
>
> FYI, here's a (probably incomplete) list of guest OS types used by
> VMware: http://sanbarrow.com/vmx/vmx-guestos.html
libvirt goes about this in a different way: it expects the higher
level management tool to choose the right devices for the new guest
(which is essentially what virt-manager / virt-install do when you
give them the OS hint).
Yes, I'm aware of that.
It's probably impossible from the ESX driver itself, but you
could run
virt-inspector on the domain and translate the result into a suitable
guestOS string. virt-inspector supports a large proportion of the
OSes listed.
That won't work in general, as you want to set the guest OS type in
the VMX config before you install the guest OS.
Matthias