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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 | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | x86_64 | i686 | ||||||
| 17 | x86_64 | x86_64 | ||||||
| 16 | x86_64 | i686 | ||||||
| 16 | x86_64 | x86_64 | ||||||
| 15 | x86_64 | i686 | ||||||
| 15 | x86_64 | x86_64 |
RHEL
| User | OS Release | Host Arch | Guest Arch | Installation | Post-install boot | ISO media inspect | Image inspect | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RHEL-6.2 | x86_64 | i686 | ||||||
| RHEL-6.2 | x86_64 | x86_64 | ||||||
| RHEL-5.8 | x86_64 | i686 | ||||||
| RHEL-5.8 | x86_64 | x86_64 | ||||||
| RHEL-4.9 | x86_64 | i686 | ||||||
| RHEL-4.9 | x86_64 | x86_64 |
Ubuntu
| User | OS Release | Host Arch | Guest Arch | Installation | Post-install boot | ISO media inspect | Image inspect | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oneiric (11.10) | x86_64 | i686 | ||||||
| Oneiric (11.10) | x86_64 | x86_64 | ||||||
| Natty (11.04) | x86_64 | i686 | ||||||
| Natty (11.04) | x86_64 | x86_64 | ||||||
| Maverick (10.10) | x86_64 | i686 | ||||||
| Maverick (10.10) | x86_64 | x86_64 |
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 | ||||||
| 9.0 | x86_64 | x86_64 | ||||||
| 8.2 | x86_64 | i686 | ||||||
| 8.2 | x86_64 | x86_64 | ||||||
| 8.1 | x86_64 | i686 | ||||||
| 8.1 | x86_64 | x86_64 | ||||||
| 8.0 | x86_64 | i686 | ||||||
| 8.0 | x86_64 | x86_64 | ||||||
| 7.4 | x86_64 | i686 | ||||||
| 7.3 | x86_64 | x86_64 | ||||||
| 7.3 | x86_64 | i686 | ||||||
| 7.2 | x86_64 | x86_64 | ||||||
| 7.2 | x86_64 | i686 | ||||||
| 7.4 | x86_64 | x86_64 | ||||||
| 7.1 | x86_64 | i686 | ||||||
| 7.1 | x86_64 | x86_64 | ||||||
| 7.0 | x86_64 | i686 | ||||||
| 7.0 | x86_64 | x86_64 |
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.