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Supported and Unsupported Guest Operating Systems

Check the lists that follow for information on which operating systems now work as guest operating systems in a GSX Server virtual machine and the status of operating systems that are not on the supported list.

Supported Guest Operating Systems
Unsupported Guest Operating Systems
- Operating Systems that May Work but are Not Supported
- Operating Systems that May Not Work and for which Support is Not Planned

Supported Guest Operating Systems

Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and Windows Server 2003 Web Edition

Microsoft Windows XP

Windows XP Home and Windows XP Professional Edition, including Service Pack 1

Microsoft Windows 2000

Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Advanced Server; Service Pack 2, Service Pack 3 and Service Pack 4

Microsoft Windows NT

Windows NT 4.0 Workstation and Windows NT Server, Service Pack 3 or higher

Microsoft Windows

Windows Millennium Edition
Windows 98 and Windows 98 SE
Windows 95 (all OSR releases)
Windows for Workgroups
Windows 3.1

Microsoft MS-DOS

MS-DOS 6

Linux

Mandrake Linux 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0 and 9.1
Red Hat Linux 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9.0 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (AS, ES, WS) 2.1
SuSE Linux 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 and SLES 7, 8
Turbolinux 6.0 and 7.0

FreeBSD

FreeBSD 3.1, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5

NetWare

NetWare 4.2, 5.1, 6.0 and 6.5 beta

Unsupported Guest Operating Systems

Note: GSX Server provides support only for guest operating systems that run on x86 (Intel and compatible) microprocessors. It is not possible to use an operating system designed for a different type of microprocessor as a guest operating system. For example, Mac OS, designed to run on PowerPC processors, is not supported. Similarly, operating systems designed to run on the Alpha microprocessor are not supported.

Operating Systems that May Work but are Not Supported

The following guest operating systems may work with GSX Server but are not supported.

Caldera OpenLinux 1.3
Miracle Linux 2.1
Novell NetWare 5.0 (on a Pentium III processor, only works with a Novell-supplied patch; for more information, see support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/2958591.htm)
Solaris 7 Intel Edition, 8
NetBSD 1.x
OpenBSD 2.x
Turbolinux 8.0, TLES 8

Operating Systems that May Not Work and for which Support is Not Planned

The following guest operating systems may not work with GSX Server. There are currently no plans to support these guests in the near future.

BeOS
IBM OS/2 and OS/2 Warp
Minix
QNX
SCO Unix
UnixWare

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