Working with Guest Operating Systems

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Applies To: Virtual Machine Manager 2008, Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1

In a virtual environment, a guest operating system is the operating system that runs on a virtual machine, in contrast to the host operating system that runs on the physical host computer on which one or more virtual machines are deployed. In Virtual Machine Manager, a guest operating system profile is a collection of operating system settings that can be imported into a virtual machine template to provide a consistent operating system configuration for virtual machines created from that template.

About Guest Operating System Profiles

How to Create a Guest Operating System Profile

How to Save a Guest Operating System Profile While Creating a Template

How to Modify the Properties of a Guest Operating System Profile

How to Remove a Guest Operating System Profile

See Also

Concepts

How to Customize the Operating System of a Virtual Machine
How to Create a Hardware Profile
Working with Virtual Machine Templates
Creating Virtual Machines