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Guest OS Support Results

This page provides the results of testing guest operating systems on a Fedora 17 KVM host.

There are 4 main criteria to be evaluated against each guest OS, ordered from most-to-least important:

  • Installation - verify that the installer runs to completion without unexpected problems
  • Post-install boot - verify the resulting installed image can successfully boot up again
  • ISO media inspect - whether virt-inspector can find info for the ISO install media
  • Image inspect - whether virt-inspect can find info for the resulting installed OS disk image

Tier 1 Guests

Tier 1 consists of operating systems that we expect (require?) a Fedora 17 KVM to be able to run flawlessly, with optimized, near native performance

Fedora

User OS Release Host Arch Guest Arch Installation Post-install boot ISO media inspect Image inspect Reboot Guest Shutdown guest Ping www.redhat.com Notes
17 x86_64 i686
none
none
none
none
none
none
none
17 x86_64 x86_64
none
none
none
none
none
none
none
16 x86_64 i686
none
none
none
none
none
none
none
16 x86_64 x86_64
none
none
none
none
none
none
none
15 x86_64 i686
none
none
none
none
none
none
none
15 x86_64 x86_64
none
none
none
none
none
none
none

RHEL

User OS Release Host Arch Guest Arch Installation Post-install boot ISO media inspect Image inspect Reboot Guest Shutdown guest Ping www.redhat.com Notes
RHEL-6.2 x86_64 i686
none
none
none
none
none
none
none
RHEL-6.2 x86_64 x86_64
none
none
none
none
none
none
none
RHEL-5.8 x86_64 i686
none
none
none
none
none
none
none
RHEL-5.8 x86_64 x86_64
none
none
none
none
none
none
none
RHEL-4.9 x86_64 i686
none
none
none
none
none
none
none
RHEL-4.9 x86_64 x86_64
none
none
none
none
none
none
none

Ubuntu

User OS Release Host Arch Guest Arch Installation Post-install boot ISO media inspect Image inspect Notes
Oneiric (11.10) x86_64 i686
none
none
none
none
Oneiric (11.10) x86_64 x86_64
none
none
none
none
Natty (11.04) x86_64 i686
none
none
none
none
Natty (11.04) x86_64 x86_64
none
none
none
none
Maverick (10.10) x86_64 i686
none
none
none
none
Maverick (10.10) x86_64 x86_64
none
none
none
none

Tier 2 Guests

Tier 2 consists of guest operating systems that are expected to run on a Fedora 17 KVM host, but not neccessarily at the highest performance levels

FreeBSD

User OS Release Host Arch Guest Arch Installation Post-install boot ISO media inspect Image inspect Notes
9.0 x86_64 i686
none
none
none
none
9.0 x86_64 x86_64
none
none
none
none
8.2 x86_64 i686
none
none
none
none
8.2 x86_64 x86_64
none
none
none
none
8.1 x86_64 i686
none
none
none
none
8.1 x86_64 x86_64
none
none
none
none
8.0 x86_64 i686
none
none
none
none
8.0 x86_64 x86_64
none
none
none
none
7.4 x86_64 i686
none
none
none
none
7.3 x86_64 x86_64
none
none
none
none
7.3 x86_64 i686
none
none
none
none
7.2 x86_64 x86_64
none
none
none
none
7.2 x86_64 i686
none
none
none
none
7.4 x86_64 x86_64
none
none
none
none
7.1 x86_64 i686
none
none
none
none
7.1 x86_64 x86_64
none
none
none
none
7.0 x86_64 i686
none
none
none
none
7.0 x86_64 x86_64
none
none
none
none

Tier 3 Guests

Tier 3 consists of every single remaining x86 operating system in existance. Yes, right back to MS-Dos 1.0. We'd love it if all these operating systems worked, to demonstrate KVM's quality.