I have been using CentOS 7.3 that is bundled with my application in a form of .ova file that gets deployed in a vmWare Esxi client. The .ovf file has got the OperatingSystemSection that mentions ovf:id="107" and ovf:version="7".
<OperatingSystemSection ovf:id="107" ovf:version="7" vmw:osType="centos7_64Guest">
<Info>The kind of installed guest operating system</Info>
<Description>Centos 7 (64-bit)</Description>
</OperatingSystemSection>
After the deployment of the ova, the ESXi client detects the Guest OS to be Other Linux (64-bit). I expect it to show CentOS 7 (64-bit).
Tried modifying the ovf file by removing the ovf:osType="centos7_64Guest", it didn't help either.
Also tried changig the ovf:id="80", and ovf:osType="centos7_64Guest", it started showing RHEL 7 (64-bit). In a nutshell, tried several permutations, but couldn't achieve the right Guest OS version in the ESXi client.
I am not really sure if it's a bug or something, but I can't get it working at all. Any help would be appreciated. I tried with 3 ESXi versions 6.5, 6.7 and 7.0 without any luck.
Could someone please suggest what I am doing wrong?
Thanks,
Neeraj
Fixed a minor typo in the headline Message was edited by: Neeraj Kumar