On 14/08/14 12:41, Steve Gordon wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Matthew Booth" <mbo...@redhat.com> >> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" >> <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org> >> >> I've just spent the best part of a day tracking down why instance >> creation was failing on a particular setup. The error message from >> CreateVM_Task was: 'A specified parameter was not correct'. >> >> After discounting a great many possibilities, I finally discovered that >> the problem was guestId, which was being set to 'CirrosGuest'. >> Unusually, the vSphere API docs don't contain a list of valid values for >> that field. Given the unhelpfulness of the error message, it might be >> worthwhile validating that field (which we get from glance) and >> displaying an appropriate warning. >> >> Does anybody have a canonical list of valid values? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Matt > > I found a page [1] linked from the Grizzly edition of the compute guide [2] > which has since been superseded. The content that would appear to have > replaced it in more recent versions of the documentation suite [3] does not > appear to contain such a link though. If a link to a more formal list is > available it would be great to get this in the documentation.
I just extracted a list of 126 os types from the ESX 5.5u1 installation iso. While this isn't ideal documentation, I'm fairly sure it will be accurate :) Matt -- Matthew Booth Red Hat Engineering, Virtualisation Team Phone: +442070094448 (UK) GPG ID: D33C3490 GPG FPR: 3733 612D 2D05 5458 8A8A 1600 3441 EA19 D33C 3490 _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
