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Supported Guest Operating Systems
Supported Guest Operating Systems
The operating systems listed here have been tested in VMware Workstation 5 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.
Operating systems that are not listed are not supported for use in a VMware Workstation virtual machine.
Microsoft Windows 32-bit
Experimental support for Windows, code-named Longhorn, beta
Windows Server 2003 Web Edition, Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 1 or 2 (listed versions also supported with no service pack)
Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 1, 2, 3 or 4; Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 1, 2, 3 or 4; Windows 2000 Advanced Server Service Pack 3 or 4 (listed versions also supported with no service pack)
Windows NTŪ Workstation 4.0 Service Pack 6a, Windows NT Server 4.0 Service Pack 6a, Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition Service Pack 6
Windows Me
Windows 98 (including all 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
MS-DOS 6.x
Linux
Mandrake Linux 8.2, 9.0, 10
Red Hat Linux 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3.0, 4.0
Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1, 3.0 (experimental)
SuSE Linux 7.3, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2.
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7, 7 patch 2, 8, 9, 9 SP1
Turbolinux Server 7.0, Enterprise Server 8, Workstation 8
Novell NetWare
NetWare 5.1, 5.1 SP8, 6, 6.5, 6.5 SP3
FreeBSD
FreeBSD 4.0-4.6.2, 4.8, 5.0
Note: If you use SCSI virtual disks larger than 2GB with FreeBSD 4.0-4.3, there are known problems, and the guest operating system does not boot. To work around this issue, see the
VMware Guest Operating System Installation Guide, available
from the VMware Web site or from the Help menu.
Sun
Experimental support for Solaris x86 Platform Edition 9, 10 beta
Java Desktop System (JDS)