New-vm cmdlet -guestid Flag options

[EricOliver]

Hello all,

I've scoured Google and the VMware Communities discussions for an answer to this question and I've come up dry. Now it may sound like I'm splitting hairs but I cannot find a -guestid option for "Microsoft Windows Sever 2008 (64 bit)" There is indeed an option for "Microsoft Windows Sever 2008 R2 (64 bit)" When creating a VM from the vSphere Client it's possible to get the former as a Guest OS. However when working in PowerCLI I can only seem to get the latter as a Guest OS. I'm not entirely sure what I'm missing. How do I get the new-vm cmdlet to set the Guest OS of my new vm to "Microsoft Windows Sever 2008 (64 bit)"?

Thank you.

[damiankarlson · Accepted solution]

Try winLonghorn64Guest

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[LucD]

The guestId for a Windows 2008 64-bit is "winLonghorn64Guest".

You can find all the guestIds in the SDK Reference in the VirtualMachineGuestOsIdentifier enumeration type.

This OS was introduced in API 2.5 as experimental and I suspect VMware never updated the identifier in later API version for compatibility reasons.

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[EricOliver]

Thank both of you, that worked. I'll try more experimenting next time!

[admin]

Hello,

you can find GuestID options in New-VM help:

http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/windowstoolkit/wintk40u1/html/New-VM.html

Vitali

PowerCLI Team

[LucD]

Hi Vitali,

It seems the list in the New-VM is not up-to-date.

The vSphere 4.1 additions are missing (centosGuest,centos64Guest,eComStationGuest...).

I don't think it's a good idea to replicate the official list, perhaps a link to the official list is better ?

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[admin]

Thanks for the note Luc

Vitali

PowerCLI Team