<![CDATA[VM Templates does choosing correct one matter?]]>Just wondering, I never thought about this before but does choosing the correct VM Templates matter? Most of the time it is really obvious which templates to choose but sometime it isn't and I guess. Does this affect the VM later on?

I saw a CEPH install where it states the following "current version uses a kernel up streamed from SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 with a few patches, Ceph Quincy and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for its root file system."

Which guest toolkit should I use? I assume I should use ubuntu template. I accidently use "SUSE Linux Enterprise 15" template but toolkit fail. So I switch to Ubuntu guest toolkit and it work to some degree but never change the template "SUSE Linux Enterprise 15" to "Ubuntu". Does this matter?

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/8114/vm-templates-does-choosing-correct-one-matterRSS for NodeWed, 22 Apr 2026 12:34:10 GMTFri, 22 Dec 2023 21:42:09 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to VM Templates does choosing correct one matter? on Tue, 26 Dec 2023 23:14:40 GMT]]>@wilsonqanda Yes, BIOS as well, assuming I am remembering right haha. If you just pick whatever is closest and go with it I doubt you'll run into issues, if you do just make a post here and I'm sure someone will be willing to help out or work on a new template or something.

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/68849https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/68849Tue, 26 Dec 2023 23:14:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VM Templates does choosing correct one matter? on Sun, 24 Dec 2023 06:25:06 GMT]]>Thanks that is good to know that it does affect some of the UEFI specs/setting. I assume it applies to Bios setting too.

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/68822https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/68822Sun, 24 Dec 2023 06:25:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VM Templates does choosing correct one matter? on Sat, 23 Dec 2023 22:13:02 GMT]]>IIRC the templates help define some of the UEFI specs and things like that, generally speaking though using something similar to what you're deploying, even if not the same version (i.e. Ubuntu 20.04 template for a Ubuntu 23.10) should be functional, at least in my experience this has never created an issue.

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