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

Customize the operating system of a virtual machine

Create a guest operating system profile

Save a guest operating system profile while creating a template

Remove a guest operating system profile

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