Comments on: VMWare GuestOS id list

by: Trever

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:17:16 +0000

Thanks, that is useful indeed.

That will only get you the official supported guests though, and for this particular product only. I’ll stand by my out-of-band approach of digging through the binaries for what is available, whether it is a current product or not, officially supported or beta/hidden support, etc.

by: Ben G.

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:57:22 +0000

I was looking for guestIDs as well (for vCenter 4.0 specifically, but using the vSphere API) and came by here. I found my list within VMWare’s Reference Guide.

For vSphere’s API, the guide is here (http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/index.html). Once in the guide, look in Enumerated Types and scroll down to/search for “VirtualMachineGuestOsIdentifier”. You’ll come up with something like this: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/vim.vm.GuestOsDescriptor.GuestOsIdentifier.html

Hope that helps future visitors!

by: Ip pbx

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:37:55 +0000

Thanks for the list of all VMWare GuestOS id’s for some software that will generate configuration files for various versions of VMWare ESX.

by: Trever

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:49:49 +0000

This seems to be one of the most popular articles on my blog. It’s on the first page of google results when searching for vmware guestOS