On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:47:34PM +0100, Matthias Bolte wrote: > 2011/1/13 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > It's probably impossible from the ESX driver itself, but you could run > > virt-inspector on the domain and translate the result into a suitable > > guestOS string. virt-inspector supports a large proportion of the > > OSes listed. > > That won't work in general, as you want to set the guest OS type in > the VMX config before you install the guest OS. So you're stuck with modelling it in the libvirt XML somehow. I will just add that a current RFE is to make virt-inspector work on install CDs. The idea is in virt-manager that we have it automatically fill in the OS hints based on the ISO you try to use. For more information see: http://libguestfs.org/TODO.txt # section "live CD inspection" Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list