On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:20:42PM +0100, Matthias Bolte wrote: > 2011/1/11 Jake Xu <jake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Hi, > > I am trying to create a VM using the Python bindings of Libvirt. I can > > successfully create VM from a XML template, but I can't find any way to > > define the guest OS type/variant like CentOS 5.5 64bit for my VM. The native > > format converted from XML is always guestOS="other-64" - which doesn't tell > > us much about the guest operating system. > > I have looked at the C libvirt source code a bit, and it seems like libvirt > > does not support defining guest os type using XML description yet. > > That's correct, currently there is no way to pass guest OS > type/variant information to the ESX driver, as the domain XML config > doesn't include such information. IIUC, VMWare doesn't actually want a type/variant split. That split is only something that is used in the UI. The actual VMX file just uses a single short string to identify the OS. Daniel -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list