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