Guest operating system for Amazon Linux 2 on ESXi 6.7 and earlier versions

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

This article provides details about guest operating system full name for Amazon Linux 2 on ESXi 6.7 and earlier versions.

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi 6.5
VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7

Resolution

The guest operating system full name for Amazon Linux 2 is displayed as Linux kernel release Amazon Linux 2 on ESXi 6.7 and earlier versions, in which kernel release is the kernel release of Amazon Linux 2.

For example, when the Amazon Linux 2 kernel release is 4.14.47-64.38.amzn2.x86_64, the virtual machines guest operating system on vSphere Client is Linux 4.14.47-64.38.amzn2.x86_64 Amazon Linux 2.