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 theVirtualMachineGuestOsIdentifieras a string.
- alternateGuestName– Full name for the guest operating system. Use this property ifguestosidis one of the values ofVirtualMachineGuestOsIdentifierstarting withother*.