Re: [libvirt] esx driver: XML format for guest OS type/variant

2011/1/11 Jake Xu <jake(a)demonwaremail.net&gt;: > Hi, > I am trying to create a VM using the Python bindings of Libvirt. I can > successfully create VM from a XML template, but I can't find any way to > define the guest OS type/variant like CentOS 5.5 64bit for my VM. The native > format converted from XML is always guestOS="other-64" - which doesn't tell > us much about the guest operating system. > I have looked at the C libvirt source code a bit, and it seems like libvirt > does not support defining guest os type using XML description yet. That's correct, currently there is no way to pass guest OS type/variant information to the ESX driver, as the domain XML config doesn't include such information.