List of valid "guest_os_type" values for vSphere builder?

[Emory Christenson]

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

[James Muldrow]

"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.

[Emory Christenson]

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.

[Rickard von Essen]

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. 

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[Emory Christenson]

I did that, didn't get me where I wanted to go somehow.

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