Andy Kurth created VCL-1026:
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Summary: Improve VMware code's ability to select the proper guest
OS
Key: VCL-1026
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-1026
Project: VCL
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: vcld (backend)
Reporter: Andy Kurth
Assignee: Andy Kurth
Fix For: 2.5
VMware.pm currently selects the .vmx file's guestOS value by attempting to
match the OS.name value to a hard-coded hash key in VMware.pm
(%VM_OS_CONFIGURATION). If a base image is created for an OS not explicitly
defined in the code, a very basic default is used (winXPPro or otherlinux).
This works well enough for existing OS's. However, if you create a new Windows
10 base image and select the proper guestOS (windows9-64), VCL will resort to
the XP default for images loaded with the image.
It's worse for Linux images since most use the generic _vmwarelinux_ OS.
Things could be easily improved by using the value from the reference .vmx file
if available. This would the setting used to create a base image with the
correct guestOS to be propagated to derivative VMs. It would not help existing
images.
Another option could be to attempt to determine the OS from the guest before an
image is captured and include a comment in the reference .vmx file. This would
allow guestOS's to be dynamically determined.
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