VMware vSphere SDKs and Tools 8.0

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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*.

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