Guest OS field is set to Microsoft MS-DOS on Red Hat satellite 6.5
Environment
- Red Hat Satellite 6.5
Issue
Guest OS
field is set toMicrosoft MS-DOS
while importing RHEL8 vm from satellite 6.5 compute resource using vcenter.
Resolution
-
This is a known issue filed in Bug 1713538 which is fixed in
Satellite 6.6
-
Below is a
workaround
for satellite 6.5:# cd /opt/theforeman/tfm/root/usr/share/gems/gems/rbvmomi-1.10.0/ # mv vmodl.db /tmp # wget https://github.com/vmware/rbvmomi/blob/master/vmodl.db?raw=true # restorecon -Rv . # vi /usr/share/foreman/app/models/compute_resources/foreman/model/vmware.rb "rhel7_64Guest" => "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (64-bit)", "rhel7Guest" => "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (32-bit)", "rhel8_64Guest" => "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (64-bit)", =======> Add this line below the "rhel7Guest" parameter. # systemctl restart httpd # echo 'pp RbVmomi::VIM::VirtualMachineGuestOsIdentifier.values' | foreman-rake console | grep rhel8 =======> This should now show the RHEL8 Guest OS per VMware setting.
Root Cause
-
Guest OS version identifier
not updated insatellite 6.5
andRHEL8
is supported inVMware version 6.7 and above
. -
Guest OS version identifier
needs to be updated according to vmware documentation insatellite 6.5
.
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