On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 10:05:55PM +0800, Henry Zhang wrote: > Hi there, > > When I run virt-manger 0.4, and try to create the HVM guest, I noticed > there is option for OS Type, if I want to install Solaris, I think I > should select UNIX, then in OS Variant, I can see only Solairs 10 and > Solaris 9. And in fact Solaris have Nevada, it's the developing HEAD > Solaris, if I would like to install it, which I should select? It doesn't particularly matter - pick the closest match - or none at all. Its merely a install hint. > My understanding to HVM is that we can install any OS without any > change, if this machine have special CPU, so why we need to select the > OS Type/Variant? If I don't select both OS Type and variant, is it ok? :) These values are optional - they merely a hint to let us set up the virtual hardware in a slightly more optimal way for a particular OS. eg, with Windows we will set the BIOS clock to 'localtime' instead of 'utc'. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
