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VMware Fusion 3: Supported Operating Systems

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Created on: Oct 21, 2009 8:03 PM by NehaDiggs - Last Modified:  Oct 26, 2009 7:54 PM by NehaDiggs

VMware Fusion 3 supports more than 140 Operating Systems.

Supported 32-Bit Guest Operating Systems

VMware Fusion supports the following 32-bit guest operating systems:
  • Mac OS X Server 10.6 Snow Leopard and 10.5 Leopard
  • Windows 7 Ultimate, Enterprise, Professional, Home Premium, and Home Basic Editions
  • Windows Vista Business, Enterprise, Ultimate, Home Basic, and Home Premium SP2 Editions
  • Windows Vista Business, Enterprise, Ultimate, Home Basic, and Home Premium SP1 Editions
  • Windows Vista Business, Enterprise, Ultimate, Home Basic, and Home Premium Editions
  • Windows XP Professional SP3, Home Edition SP3
  • Windows XP Professional SP2, Home Edition SP2
  • Windows 98 SE
  • Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, Standard, and Datacenter SP2 Editions
  • Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, Standard, and Datacenter Editions
  • Windows Server 2003 Standard, Enterprise, Enterprise SP2, and Enterprise R2 Editions
  • Windows 2000 Server SP4, Advanced Server SP4, Windows 2000 Professional SP4 (experimental)
  • Windows NT 4.0 Server SP6a, Workstation SP6a
  • Windows Me, Windows 3.1, Windows 95 SP1, MS-DOS 6.x
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, 10 SP2, 9 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11, 10 SP2
  • SUSE Linux 10.1, 9.3
  • Novell Netware 6.5 SP7
  • Novell Linux Desktop 9 SP2
  • Novell Open Enterprise Server SP2
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3, 4.7, 3.9, 2.1-stock 2.4.9-e3 (Advanced Server, Enterprise Server, Workstation)
  • Red Hat Linux 9.0—stock 2.4.20-8, upgrade 2.4.20-20.9
  • Red Hat Linux 7.0—stock 2.2.16-22, upgrade 2.2.17-14
  • Solaris 10 on x86 (Update 7)
  • Ubuntu Linux 9.04, 8.10, 8.04.3, 7.10, 6.10, 5.10
  • Mandriva Linux 2009.1, 2008, 2007, 2006
  • FreeBSD 7.2, 7.1, 6.1, 5.5
  • Turbolinux Enterprise Server 8
  • Turbolinux Desktop 10

Supported 64-Bit Guest Operating Systems

VMware Fusion supports the following 64-bit guest operating systems:
  • Mac OS X Server 10.6 Snow Leopard and 10.5 Leopard
  • Windows 7 Ultimate, Enterprise, Professional, Home Premium, and Home Basic Editions
  • Windows Vista Business, Enterprise, Ultimate, Home Basic, and Home Premium SP2 Editions
  • Windows Vista Business, Enterprise, Ultimate, Home Basic, and Home Premium SP1 Editions
  • Windows Vista Business, Enterprise, Ultimate, Home Basic, and Home Premium Editions
  • Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2
  • Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, Standard, and Datacenter SP2 Editions
  • Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, Standard, and Datacenter Editions
  • Windows Server 2003 Enterprise, Enterprise SP2, and Enterprise R2 Editions
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, 10 SP2, 9 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11, 10 SP2
  • SUSE Linux 10.1, 9.3
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3, 4.7, 3.9 (Advanced Server, Enterprise Server, Workstation)
  • Solaris 10 on x86 (Update 7)
  • Ubuntu Linux 9.04, 8.10, 8.04.3, 7.10, 6.10, 5.10
  • Mandriva Linux 2009.1, 2008, 2007, 2006
  • FreeBSD 7.2, 6.1, 5.5
  • Turbolinux Server 10
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