Hal posted a thread the other day about an apparent bug in New-VM which manifested itself by the inability to use all of the guest operating system types the documentation says are valid.
It turns out that the VI API Reference lists every possible guest OS that has ever been supported by any VMware product, and that a majority of them are invalid for any given version of ESX.
So which ones can you actually use? The answer is there, hidden under the usual web service layer that people so often resort to when cmdlets aren't quite enough. I suggested that a cmdlet to list the actual supported systems was in order, and in fact LucD created just such a cmdlet and added it to the VI Toolkit Community Extensions.
Here's a picture of it in action:
Thanks Luc!
