VMware ESXi 6.5 guestOS types

VMware ESXi 6.5 guestOS types

Based on my research and some trial & error, I made this a of guestOS types that I belivee are compatible with ESXi 6.5. I started with some api documenation from vmware that listed guestOS types.

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-65/topic/com.vmware.wssdk.apiref.doc/vim.vm.GuestOsDescriptor.GuestOsIdentifier.html

v6.7 is at https://code.vmware.com/apis/358/vsphere#/doc/vim.vm.GuestOsDescriptor.GuestOsIdentifier.html

But they didn't quite work as-is when put directly in the vmx file... I noticed none of my existing vmx files had the word "Guest" in guestOS line. I also noticed in the list that the 64 bit entries were inconsistent. Some have _64, others -64, and others have no prefix. (just 64) I removed the word Guest and set all the 64 bit OS's to be standard "-64". The results seems to work for all various OS's I installed, but I certainly didn't try all of these. They don't seem to be case-sensitive either. So here is my list... Please report any errors.

Asianux: 'asianux3-64','asianux3','asianux4-64','asianux4','asianux5-64','asianux7-64'

Centos: 'centos6-64','centos-64','centos6','centos7-64','centos7','centos'

Darwin (mac): 'darwin10-64','darwin10','darwin11-64','darwin11','darwin12-64','darwin13-64','darwin14-64','darwin15-64','darwin16-64','darwin-64','darwin'

Debian: 'debian10-64','debian10','debian4-64','debian4','debian5-64','debian5','debian6-64','debian6','debian7-64','debian7','debian8-64','debian8','debian9-64','debian9'

Dos & Other: 'dos','os2','oes','other','sjds','coreos-64'

eComStation: 'eComStation2','eComStation'

Fedora: 'fedora-64','fedora'

FreeBSD: 'freebsd-64','freebsd'

Mandrake: 'mandrake','mandriva-64','mandriva'

Netware: 'netware4','netware5','netware6','nld9'

SCO: 'openServer5','openServer6','unixWare7'

SUSE: 'opensuse-64','opensuse','sles10-64','sles10','sles11-64','sles11','sles12-64','sles12','sles-64','sles','suse-64','suse'

Oracle Linux: 'oracleLinux6-64','oracleLinux-64','oracleLinux6','oracleLinux7-64','oracleLinux7','oracleLinux'

Other Linux: 'genericLinux','other24xLinux-64','other24xLinux','other26xLinux-64','other26xLinux','other3xLinux-64','other3xLinux','otherGuest-64','otherLinux-64','otherLinux'

Redhat: 'redhat','rhel2','rhel3-64','rhel3','rhel4-64','rhel4','rhel5-64','rhel5','rhel6-64','rhel6','rhel7-64','rhel7'

Solaris: 'solaris10-64','solaris10','solaris11-64','solaris6','solaris7','solaris8','solaris9'

TurboLInux: 'turboLinux-64','turboLinux'

Ubuntu: 'ubuntu-64','ubuntu'

VMware: 'vmkernel5','vmkernel65','vmkernel6','vmkernel','vmwarePhoton-64'

Windows: 'win2000AdvServ','win2000Pro','win2000Serv','win31','win95','win98','windows7-64','windows7','windows7Server-64','windows8-64','windows8','windows8Server-64','windows9-64','windows9','windows9Server-64','windowsHyperV','winLonghorn-64','winLonghorn','winMe','winNetBusiness','winNetDatacenter-64','winNetDatacenter','winNetEnterprise-64','winNetEnterprise','winNetStandard-64','winNetStandard','winNetWeb','winNT','winVista-64','winVista','winXPHome','winXPPro-64','winXPPro'