You can change the guest operating system or operating system version for a virtual machine. You might want to change the guest operating system for a virtual machine when you upgrade the guest operating system or if you specified the wrong operating system version when you created the virtual machine.
To select a new guest operating system or operating system version for a selected virtual machine, select , click the Options tab, and select General.
When you change the operating system type, the virtual machine configuration file is changed but the guest operating system is not changed. To change the guest operating system, you must obtain the operating system software and upgrade the guest operating system.
The virtual machine must be powered off when you change these settings.
