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The profile attached to the VM will help to take advantages of the OS features. Windows 2016 won’t take advantage of all the features because is configured with the Windows 2012 profile.
How can you fix the mismatch configuration?
List the guest_id that matches the full_name OS you are looking for
Code Block vss-cli compute os ls
output:
Code Block id guest_id full_name family ---- ----------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- 30 rhel7Guest Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 linuxGuest 28 solaris6Guest Solaris 6 None 31 solaris7Guest Solaris 7 None 94 asianux8_64Guest Asianux Server 8 (64 bit) None 88 oracleLinux6_64Guest Oracle 6 (64-bit) None 89 oracleLinux6Guest Oracle 6 None 90 oracleLinux7_64Guest Oracle 7 (64-bit) None 91 oracleLinux7Guest Oracle 7 None 92 asianux5_64Guest Asianux Server 5 (64 bit) None 93 asianux7_64Guest Asianux Server 7 (64 bit) None 3 winNetStandard64Guest Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition (64 bit) windowsGuest 8 centosGuest CentOS 4/5 linuxGuest 9 other24xLinux64Guest Linux 2.4x Kernel (64 bit) (experimental) linuxGuest 10 fedoraGuest Fedora Linux linuxGuest 17 slesGuest Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9 linuxGuest 23 rhel3Guest Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 linuxGuest 95 vmwarePhoton64Guest VMware Photon (64 bit) linuxGuest
Tun off the Virtual Machine
Code Block Configure the right OS, for example (Windows 2012 replace the Windows2012 profile to Windows 2016 )profile
Code Block vss-cli compute vm set vm-XXXX os windows9Server64Guest
Turn of the Virtual Machine
Code Block