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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform

By : ZAHIR HUSSAIN SHAH
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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform

By: ZAHIR HUSSAIN SHAH

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Introduction
SCVMM 2012 New Features and Enhancements
SCVMM Management Console Configuration Settings
Index

Hyper-V Windows Server 2012 guest VM support


In this section, we will cover the guest operating systems supported by Windows Server 2012. We will also divide these supported operating systems into two major categories in the server and the client operating systems.

Guest server operating systems

All the following listed server operating systems are supported to be virtualized on Windows Server 2012:

  • Windows Server 2012

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1

  • Windows Server 2008 R2

  • Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 2

  • Windows Server 2008

  • Windows Home Server 2011

  • Windows Small Business Server 2011

  • Windows Server 2003 R2 with Service Pack 2

  • Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2

  • CentOS 6.0 to 6.2

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 to 6.2

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2

Guest client operating systems

All the following client operating systems are compatible and supported to be virtualized on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V:

  • Windows 8

  • Windows 7 with Service Pack 1

  • Windows 7

  • Windows Vista with Service Pack 2

  • Windows XP with Service Pack 3

  • Windows XP x64 Edition with Service Pack 2