VMware Fusion 3.1.2 supports more than 150 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 5.4, 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 10.10, 10.04, 9.10, 9.04, 8.10, 8.04.3, 8.0.4.4, 7.10, 6.10, 5.10
Mandriva Linux 2009.1, 2008, 2007, 2006
FreeBSD 8.0, 7.2, 7.1, 6.1, 5.5
Turbolinux Enterprise Server 8
Turbolinux Desktop 10
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 Service Pack 1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1
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
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 Service Pack 1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, 5.3, 4.7, 3.9 (Advanced Server, Enterprise Server, Workstation)
Solaris 10 on x86 (Update 7)
Ubuntu Linux 10.10, 10.04, 9.10, 9.04, 8.10, 8.04.3, 8.0.4.4, 7.10, 6.10, 5.10
Mandriva Linux 2009.1, 2008, 2007, 2006
FreeBSD 8.0, 7.2, 6.1, 5.5
Turbolinux Server 10
It says Windows 7 home premium is supported but I cannot connect to one using the Migration Assistant. It gets to the user/password prompt (after entering the passcode) but then it fails to connect...
Hello,
Haiku-OS (aka beOS) also runs fine on Fusion® !!!
Thanks for letting us know! We're definitely glad to hear it.
This list is of those OSes officially supported by Fusion. That is, the ones we've actually done QA work to make sure that all features work as expected, etc.
Feel free to request support for beOS, if you'd like, or anything else, here: http://www.vmware.com/contact/contactus.html?department=prod_request