I think the simplest way to find out is to manually create a VM with the settings you want and then open the VMX file and check the content.
On Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 19:40 Emory Christenson <[email protected]> wrote: > I managed to find a way to get the list from vCenter itself. That's not on > there, I'll try it if the identifiers it listed don't get me anywhere. > Thanks. > > On Wednesday, December 18, 2019 at 10:08:26 AM UTC-8, James Muldrow wrote: >> >> "windows9-64" worked for me for Server 2016. >> >> I have a working setup with instructions for Server 2016 on my github @ >> https://github.com/jamesmuldrow/Server-2016_Template_for_Packer >> >> Im still building on it but its a decent start. >> >> On Wednesday, December 18, 2019 at 12:43:00 PM UTC-5, Emory Christenson >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> No matter what I put for this value, our templates show up in vSphere as >>> “Other (32-bit).” >>> I’ve even taking to trying to edit the VMX directly during our builds. >>> Nothing works. >>> >>> >>> For Windows 2016 I’ve tried: >>> windows9srv-64 >>> windows >>> Windows2016_64 >>> etc, etc >>> >>> >>> If anyone has any advice on how I can get the "Guest OS" field to >>> populate correctly in vSphere, I would really, really appreciate it. >>> >>> >>> Thanks >>> >> -- > This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - > https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in > violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing > list. > > GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues > IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Packer" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/af43ec77-e50f-45e8-97d6-df341858a5d7%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/af43ec77-e50f-45e8-97d6-df341858a5d7%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Packer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/CALz9Rt97zy-nYTxPC9JLTkg%2B0kSP6qy_6auAWEcAgUerVi%3D0KQ%40mail.gmail.com.
