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Supported Guest Operating Systems
The operating systems listed here have been tested in VMware Workstation 4 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. For the most recent list of supported guest operating
systems, see the support section of the VMware Web site,www.vmware.com/support/.
Microsoft Windows
- Windows, code-named Longhorn, beta (experimental)
- 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 Service Pack 2 RC (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
Linux
- Mandrake Linux 8.2, 9.0
- Red Hat Linux 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3.0
- Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1
- SuSE Linux 7.3, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1
- SLES 7, 7 patch 2, 8
- Turbolinux Server 7.0, Enterprise Server 8, Workstation 8
Novell NetWare
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.
Solaris
- Solaris x86 Platform Edition 9 (experimental), 10 beta (experimental)
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