Purpose of OS Type on templates

[Donal Lafferty <do...@citrix.com>]

Which hypervisors make use of OS type on a template's configuration?

RE: Purpose of OS Type on templates

[Donal Lafferty <do...@citrix.com>]

Thanks for the example!

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> From: Nux! [mailto:nux@li.nux.ro]
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> On 13.11.2013 10:11, Donal Lafferty wrote:
> > Which hypervisors make use of OS type on a template's configuration?
> 
> Hi Donal,
> 
> KVM at least does, it exposes paravirt VirtIO devices if the OS type is known
> to support it. Xenserver also creates a PV or HVM vm based on the OS type.
> 
> HTH
> Lucian
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Re: Purpose of OS Type on templates

[Nux! <nu...@li.nux.ro>]

On 13.11.2013 10:11, Donal Lafferty wrote:
> Which hypervisors make use of OS type on a template's configuration?

Hi Donal,

KVM at least does, it exposes paravirt VirtIO devices if the OS type is 
known to support it. Xenserver also creates a PV or HVM vm based on the 
OS type.

HTH
Lucian

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Re: Purpose of OS Type on templates

[Abhinandan Prateek <Ab...@citrix.com>]

On 13/11/13 3:41 pm, "Donal Lafferty" <do...@citrix.com> wrote:

>Which hypervisors make use of OS type on a template's configuration?
All the Hypervisors. The OS type mapping exists in cloudstack that maps to
the OS type values that a particular Hypervisor use


-abhi
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