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What are the guest OS supported on AHV?

  • 12 October 2017
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Is there a definitive list of guest operating systems that are supported on AHV?
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Best answer by aluciani 12 October 2017, 14:35

Hi simonpink - you will also find a few more here, https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/docs/details?targetId=AHV-Admin-Guide-v51:vmm-vm-driver-types-r.html

The following shows the supported guest OS types for VMs on AHV.Maximum vDisks per bus typeSCSI: 256PCI: 6IDE: 4OS types with SCSI (recommended) and IDE bus typesWindows 2016 Standard, 2016 DatacenterWindows 7, 8, 8.1, 10Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, 2016RHEL 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3CentOS 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3Ubuntu 12.04.5, 14.04.x, 16.04.x, 16.10, Server, Desktop (32-bit and 64-bit)FreeBSD 9.3, 10.0, 10.1,10.2, 10.3, 11.0SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 / SP4SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12Oracle Linux 6.x, 7.xOS types with PCI (recommended) and IDE bus typesRHEL 5.10, 5.11, 6.3CentOS 5.10, 5.11, 6.3Ubuntu 12.04SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
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Found the answer almost immediately after i posted.

https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/docs/details?targetId=AMF_Guide-AOS_v4_7:vm__vm_driver_types_r.html
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Hi simonpink - you will also find a few more here, https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/docs/details?targetId=AHV-Admin-Guide-v51:vmm-vm-driver-types-r.html

The following shows the supported guest OS types for VMs on AHV.Maximum vDisks per bus typeSCSI: 256PCI: 6IDE: 4OS types with SCSI (recommended) and IDE bus typesWindows 2016 Standard, 2016 DatacenterWindows 7, 8, 8.1, 10Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, 2016RHEL 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3CentOS 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3Ubuntu 12.04.5, 14.04.x, 16.04.x, 16.10, Server, Desktop (32-bit and 64-bit)FreeBSD 9.3, 10.0, 10.1,10.2, 10.3, 11.0SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 / SP4SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12Oracle Linux 6.x, 7.xOS types with PCI (recommended) and IDE bus typesRHEL 5.10, 5.11, 6.3CentOS 5.10, 5.11, 6.3Ubuntu 12.04SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
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Although it is not officially supported we run Windows Server 2003 on AHV without any issues for some legacy business applications.
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Thanks for sharing jtempleton
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Has anyone tried OEL 5.9 on AHV?
Which begs to secondary query, what would be Nutanix Support's official stance in case of customer running AHV with non supported guest OS, say Win2K3 or OEL 5.9?

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