I always find myself looking for these on VMware's SDK site when deploying vCAC at customers, so I decided to make them handy for easy use and hopefully searchable straight from the popular search engines too.
Be sure to add this property to your Property Groups for whatever OS you’re using: VMware.VirtualCenter.OperatingSystem, with the value from the table below.
O/S | vCenter Value |
---|---|
CentOS 4/5 | centosGuest |
CentOS 4/5 (64-bit) | centos64Guest |
Debian GNU/Linux 7 | debian7Guest |
Debian GNU/Linux 7 (64 bit) | debian7_64Guest |
Fedora Linux | fedoraGuest |
Fedora Linux (64 bit) | fedora64Guest |
FreeBSD | freebsdGuest |
FreeBSD x64 | freebsd64Guest |
MS-DOS. | dosGuest |
OpenSUSE Linux | opensuseGuest |
OpenSUSE Linux (64 bit) | opensuse64Guest |
Other Linux | genericLinuxGuest |
Other Operating System | otherGuest |
Other Operating System (64 bit) (experimental) | otherGuest64 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | rhel6Guest |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (64 bit) | rhel6_64Guest |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | rhel7Guest |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (64 bit) | rhel7_64Guest |
Suse Linux | suseGuest |
Suse Linux (64 bit) | suse64Guest |
Suse linux Enterprise Server 12 | sles12Guest |
Suse Linux Enterprise Server 12 (64 bit) | sles12_64Guest |
Ubuntu Linux | ubuntuGuest |
Ubuntu Linux (64 bit) | ubuntu64Guest |
VMware ESX 4 | vmkernelGuest |
VMware ESX 5 | vmkernel5Guest |
Windows Hyper-V | windowsHyperVGuest |
Windows Small Business Server 2003 | winNetBusinessGuest |
Windows XP Home Edition | winXPHomeGuest |
Windows XP Professional | winXPProGuest |
Windows XP Professional Edition (64 bit) | winXPPro64Guest |
Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition | winNetDatacenterGuest |
Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (64 bit) (experimental) | winNetDatacenter64Guest |
Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition | winNetEnterpriseGuest |
Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (64 bit) | winNetEnterprise64Guest |
Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition | winNetStandardGuest |
Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (64 bit) | winNetStandard64Guest |
Windows Server 2003, Web Edition | winNetWebGuest |
Windows Vista | winVistaGuest |
Windows Vista (64 bit) | winVista64Guest |
Windows Server 2008 (and R2) (64 bit) | windows7Server64Guest |
Windows 7 | windows7Guest |
Windows 7 (64 bit) | windows7_64Guest |
Windows 8 | windows8Guest |
Windows 8 (64 bit) | windows8_64Guest |
Windows 2012 (and R2) Server (64 bit) | windows8Server64Guest |
Windows 2016 Server (64 bit) | windows9Server64Guest |
Keep pushing on...
--Chris