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[PR] Add documentation for Instance setting for machine type on KVM [cloudstack-documentation]
nvazquez opened a new pull request, #559:
URL: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-documentation/pull/559
Documentation for PR: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/11569
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Re: [PR] Add documentation for Instance setting for machine type on KVM [cloudstack-documentation]
Posted by "blueorangutan (via GitHub)" <gi...@apache.org>.
blueorangutan commented on PR #559:
URL: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-documentation/pull/559#issuecomment-3297502495
QA-Doc build preview: https://qa.cloudstack.cloud/builds/docs-build/pr/559. (QA-JID 433)
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Re: [PR] Add documentation for Instance setting for machine type on KVM [cloudstack-documentation]
Posted by "nvazquez (via GitHub)" <gi...@apache.org>.
nvazquez commented on PR #559:
URL: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-documentation/pull/559#issuecomment-3297484416
@blueorangutan docbuild
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Re: [PR] Add documentation for Instance setting for machine type on KVM [cloudstack-documentation]
Posted by "blueorangutan (via GitHub)" <gi...@apache.org>.
blueorangutan commented on PR #559:
URL: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-documentation/pull/559#issuecomment-3297492855
@nvazquez a Jenkins job has been kicked to build the document. I'll keep you posted as I make progress.
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Re: [PR] Add documentation for Instance setting for machine type on KVM [cloudstack-documentation]
Posted by "Pearl1594 (via GitHub)" <gi...@apache.org>.
Pearl1594 commented on code in PR #559:
URL: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-documentation/pull/559#discussion_r2341597488
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source/adminguide/virtual_machines.rst:
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@@ -1169,6 +1169,11 @@ An example list of settings as well as their possible values are shown on the im
|vm-settings-kvm-guest-cpu-model.png|
(KVM guest CPU model, available for root admin since 4.20.1.0)
+CloudStack supports setting the guest machine type for KVM instances since 4.22.0 by the Instance setting 'kvm.guest.os.machine.type'. The list of supported machine types will depend on the QEMU version on the Instance KVM host.
+
+.. note::
+ For Ubuntu 24 KVM hosts (and other distros containing QEMU 8.x versions) setting the machine type for Windows VMs to 'pc-i440fx-8.0' mitigates an issue in which the instance UUID could not be obtained from within the guest VM through the command: `wmic path win32_computersystemproduct get uuid`.
Review Comment:
```suggestion
For Ubuntu 24 KVM hosts (and other distros containing QEMU 8.x versions) setting the machine type for Windows VMs to 'pc-i440fx-8.0' mitigates the issue which prevents retrieving the instance UUID from within the guest VM via: `wmic path win32_computersystemproduct get uuid`.
```
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Re: [PR] Add documentation for Instance setting for machine type on KVM [cloudstack-documentation]
Posted by "Pearl1594 (via GitHub)" <gi...@apache.org>.
Pearl1594 commented on code in PR #559:
URL: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-documentation/pull/559#discussion_r2341581620
##########
source/adminguide/virtual_machines.rst:
##########
@@ -1169,6 +1169,11 @@ An example list of settings as well as their possible values are shown on the im
|vm-settings-kvm-guest-cpu-model.png|
(KVM guest CPU model, available for root admin since 4.20.1.0)
+CloudStack supports setting the guest machine type for KVM instances since 4.22.0 by the Instance setting 'kvm.guest.os.machine.type'. The list of supported machine types will depend on the QEMU version on the Instance KVM host.
Review Comment:
```suggestion
CloudStack supports setting the guest machine type for KVM instances since 4.22.0 by using the instance setting 'kvm.guest.os.machine.type'. The list of supported machine types will depend on the QEMU version on the KVM host.
```
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Re: [PR] Add documentation for Instance setting for machine type on KVM [cloudstack-documentation]
Posted by "nvazquez (via GitHub)" <gi...@apache.org>.
nvazquez merged PR #559:
URL: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-documentation/pull/559
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