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 |
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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 | Reboot Guest | Shutdown guest | Ping www.redhat.com | 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 | Reboot Guest | Shutdown guest | Ping www.redhat.com | 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 |
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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.