VMware Fusion 3: Supported Operating Systems

VMware Fusion 3: Supported Operating Systems

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

Comments

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

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