Re: [libvirt] esx driver: XML format for guest OS type/variant
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:47:34PM +0100, Matthias Bolte wrote:
2011/1/13 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com>:
> 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.
So you're stuck with modelling it in the libvirt XML somehow.
I will just add that a current RFE is to make virt-inspector work on
install CDs. The idea is in virt-manager that we have it
automatically fill in the OS hints based on the ISO you try to use.
For more information see:
http://libguestfs.org/TODO.txt # section "live CD inspection"
Rich.
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