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What HyperVisor are you using as the host?
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What HyperVisor are you using as the host?

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Is server 2008 R2 an &quot;option&quot; for a VM OS when creating the VM. We have a list of installed OS does not match configured OS. At what stage in the VM do you &quot;select&quot; its OS? And what problems can arise if an admin accidentally selects the wrong OS? All our 64-bit Server 2008 R2 have been selected as windows 7 64-bit, so i was trying to understand the logic?
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Is server 2008 R2 an "option" for a VM OS when creating the VM. We have a list of installed OS does not match configured OS. At what stage in the VM do you "select" its OS? And what problems can arise if an admin accidentally selects the wrong OS? All our 64-bit Server 2008 R2 have been selected as windows 7 64-bit, so i was trying to understand the logic?

incorrect OS version

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.