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ESX 3.5u4: List of supported guest operating systems

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Posted: 23 Feb, 2009
by: Troen L.
Updated: 31 Mar, 2009
by: Troen L.
VMware have released a comprehensive document that describes all the guest OSes they support on all their virtualization products. It can take some reading to determine which OSes that are supported by what product, so to give a quick overview we've created this table.
The following guest operating systems are officially supported by VMware ESX 3.5u4:
 
 
x86
x86-64
2x vsmp
 4x smp
Windows Server 2008
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Vista
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Server 2003
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows XP
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows 2000
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows NT 4.0
Yes
No
No
No
Windows Preinstallation Environment 2.0
Yes
Yes
No
No
CentOS 5.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Ubuntu 8.10
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ubuntu Linux 7.10
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ubuntu Linux 7.04
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
NetWare 6.5 Server
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
NetWare 6.0 Server
Yes
No
No
No
NetWare 5.1 Server
Yes
No
No
No
Solaris 10 Operating System for x86 Platforms
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
 
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