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 Supported Guest Operating Systems

Supported Guest Operating Systems

The operating systems listed here have been tested in VMware GSX Server 3 virtual machines and are officially supported. For notes on installing the most common guest operating systems, see the VMware Guest Operating System Installation Guide, available from the VMware Web site or from the Help menu.

Note: Operating systems that are not listed are not supported for use in a VMware GSX Server virtual machine.Guest operating systems using 64-bit extensions to the IA- 32 instruction set are not supported.

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

  • Microsoft Windows code named Longhorn (experimental support)

  • Windows Server 2003 Web Edition, Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and Windows Small Business Server 2003

  • Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Home Edition, including Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2

  • Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Advanced Server, including Service Pack 1, Service Pack 2, Service Pack 3 and Service Pack 4 and Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 4 checked build

  • Windows NTŪ 4.0 Server Service Pack 6a, Windows NT Workstation 4.0, including Service Pack 6a and Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition Service Pack 6a

  • Windows Me

  • Windows 98 (including latest Customer Service Packs) and Windows 98 SE

  • Windows 95 (including Service Pack 1 and all OSR releases)

  • Windows for Workgroups 3.11

  • Windows 3.1

    Microsoft MS-DOS

    Microsoft MS-DOS

  • MS-DOS 6.22

    Linux

    Linux

  • Mandrake Linux 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2

  • Red Hat Linux 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (AS, ES, WS) 2.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (AS, ES, WS) 3.0, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (AS, ES, WS) 3.0 Update 2

  • SuSE Linux 7.3, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0 and 9.1, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 (including patch 2) and 8 (including patch 3)

  • Turbolinux Server 7.0, 8.0, Workstation 8.0

    Novell NetWare

    Novell NetWare

  • NetWare 4.2 Support Pack 9, 5.1 Support Pack 6, 6.0 Support Pack 3 and 6.5 Support Pack 1

    FreeBSD

    FreeBSD

  • FreeBSD 4.0-4.6.2, 4.8, 4.9, 5.0 and 5.2

    Solaris

    Solaris

  • Solaris 9, 10 Operating System x86 Platform Edition (experimental support)

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