We can quickly examine the guest Operating Systems that are supported and tested on Oracle VM Server. Here's a list of supported guest OSes.
Guest OS 64 bit Hyper visor |
Paravirtualized 32bits|64 bits |
Hardware Virtualized 32 bits | 64 bits |
---|---|---|
Red Hat EL 3.x |
Yes|No |
Yes|Yes |
Red Hat EL 4.x |
Yes|Yes |
Yes|Yes |
Oracle EL 4.x |
Yes|Yes |
Yes|Yes |
Red Hat EL 5.x |
Yes|Yes |
Yes|Yes |
Oracle EL 5.x |
Yes|Yes |
Yes|Yes |
And in the list of tested guest operating systems, we can see all of the Microsoft Windows flavors:
Guest OS |
Hardware Virtualized 32 bits | 64 bits |
---|---|
Microsoft Windows™ 2000 |
Yes|Yes |
Microsoft Windows™ 2003 |
Yes|Yes |
Microsoft Windows™ XP Pro |
Yes|Yes |
Microsoft Windows™ Vista |
Yes|Yes |
Microsoft Windows™ 2008 Service Pack 1 |
Yes|Yes |
Clearly this is an impressive list by any standards. As we move ahead with Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 Servers, we will see that these machines too will be tested and eventually supported by...