Pearl1594 commented on code in PR #559:
URL:
https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-documentation/pull/559#discussion_r2341597488
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source/adminguide/virtual_machines.rst:
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@@ -1169,6 +1169,11 @@ An example list of settings as well as their possible
values are shown on the im
|vm-settings-kvm-guest-cpu-model.png|
(KVM guest CPU model, available for root admin since 4.20.1.0)
+CloudStack supports setting the guest machine type for KVM instances since
4.22.0 by the Instance setting 'kvm.guest.os.machine.type'. The list of
supported machine types will depend on the QEMU version on the Instance KVM
host.
+
+.. note::
+ For Ubuntu 24 KVM hosts (and other distros containing QEMU 8.x versions)
setting the machine type for Windows VMs to 'pc-i440fx-8.0' mitigates an issue
in which the instance UUID could not be obtained from within the guest VM
through the command: `wmic path win32_computersystemproduct get uuid`.
Review Comment:
```suggestion
For Ubuntu 24 KVM hosts (and other distros containing QEMU 8.x versions)
setting the machine type for Windows VMs to 'pc-i440fx-8.0' mitigates the issue
which prevents retrieving the instance UUID from within the guest VM via: `wmic
path win32_computersystemproduct get uuid`.
```
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