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Virtualization Manager does not display the guest operating system of a virtual machine
This article addresses an issue that prevents Virtualization Manager (VMAN) from displaying the guest OS of a virtual machine.
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Overview
Virtualization Manager displays the operating system of a virtual machine on the VM details page.
In some cases, this information is not available for virtual machines running on a Microsoft® Hyper-V host. This happens when the Hyper-V Daemon is not running on the operating system of the VM. The daemon allows the hypervisor to query the name of the operating system.
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Install the Hyper-V KVP Daemon.
Windows systems
Hyper-V integration services are a built-in feature of recent Microsoft Windows® versions.
Linux systems
The KVP Daemon is usually available as a package in the standard repositories. For example, on CentOS, the package name is hypervkvpd.
On Ubuntu, the package name varies between versions. For Ubuntu 14.04, the package name is linux-cloud-tools-generic. On older versions, the package name can be linux-tools-generic or hv-kvp-daemon-init.