Operating System

The guest operating system that you specify affects the supported devices and available number of virtual CPUs. You specify the guest operating system in the following two properties:
  • guestosid
    – Specify one of the constants in the
    VirtualMachineGuestOsIdentifier
    as a string.
  • alternateGuestName
    – Full name for the guest operating system. Use this property if
    guestosid
    is one of the values of
    VirtualMachineGuestOsIdentifier
    starting with
    other*.