guest OS short names

[Humphry]

Hi, I'd like to have a list with the guest operating system short names that I can use in the 'guestId' property of VirtualMachineConfigSpec.

Does anyone know where could I find this info??

Thanks.

[lamw · Accepted solution]

You can query that information using MOR to 'VirtualMachine' and extracting from $_->config->guestId

Check out the VI API for further information

http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk25pubs/ReferenceGuide/vim.vm.ConfigInfo.html

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[Humphry]

Thanks, lamw. I had been looking for it in VirtualMachineConfigSpec instead of VirtualMachineConfigInfo.