While vSphere 5.1 supports the below guest operating systems, then vendors of these OSes do not. As such future releases of vSphere post 5.1 will not support these guest OSes, perhaps time to upgrade from Windows NT?!

 

 

  • Windows NT
  • All 16-bit Windows and DOS releases (Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 3.1)
  • Debian 4.0 and 5.0
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise 8
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise 9 prior to SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 prior to SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Prior to SP1
  • Ubuntu releases 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10 and 10.10
  • All releases of Novell Netware
  • All releases of IBM OS/2

 

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