Certified Guest Operating Systems in OpenShift Virtualization

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Support Tiers

Certified
Red Hat has tested, certified and will support this combination of hypervisor and guest operating system. Customers with valid subscriptions may contact Red Hat for support. Red Hat will work with the Vendor if the guest operating system issue is related to a hypervisor issue.

Commercial Vendor Supported
Red Hat will provide hypervisor support for customers that use this combination of certified hypervisor and commercial vendor supported guest operating system [1]. Customers with valid subscriptions may contact Red Hat for hypervisor support and their Vendor for guest operating system support.

Community Supported
Red Hat will provide hypervisor support for customers that use this combination of hypervisor and guest operating system [1]. Customers with valid subscriptions may contact Red Hat for hypervisor support and use available community channels for guest operating system support.

Note : Red Hat may choose to continue providing hypervisor support for a guest operating system beyond the supported life cycle of that guest operating system. However, customers are recommended to review with the guest operating system vendor support policies relating to support for end of life products.

[1] : https://access.redhat.com/articles/973163#thirdpartyguests

Certified guest operating systems

Guest
OpenShift Virtualization version
Operating System
OS Architecture
4.12
4.13
4.14
4.15
4.16
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
64 bit (x86)
Not supported due to EOL [2]
Not supported due to EOL [2]
Not supported due to EOL [2]
Not supported due to EOL [2]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
64 bit (x86)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
64 bit (x86)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
64 bit (x86)
Microsoft Windows 10
64 bit (x86)
Microsoft Windows 11
64 bit (x86)
Not Supported
Not Supported
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
64 bit (x86)
Not supported due to EOL [2]
Not supported due to EOL [2]
Not supported due to EOL [2]
Microsoft Windows Server 2016
64 bit (x86)
Microsoft Windows Server 2019
64 bit (x86)
Microsoft Windows Server 2022
64 bit (x86)
Not Supported
Not Supported

[2] : The operating system has reached its end of life. Customers are recommended to review with the guest operating system vendor support policies relating to support for end of life products.

Microsoft Windows Features

In addtion to supporting Microsoft Windows operating systems, OpenShift Virtualization support the following features for specific version of Microsoft Windows :

Windows 10/11 Server 2012r2 / 2016 / 2019 Server 2022
VBS 4.16 or later No 4.16 or later
WSL2 4.14 or later No 4.14 or later
vTPM 4.14 or later No 4.14 or later
SecureBoot 4.14 or later No 4.14 or later
Nesting (vmx/svm) No [3] No [3] No [3]

[3] : Nested virtualization is actually offered as a Technology preview : https://access.redhat.com/solutions/6692341

Commercial Vendor Supported guest operating systems

Guest
OpenShift Virtualization version
Operating System
OS Architecture
4.15
4.16
SuSE Linux Enterprise System (SLES) 15
64 bit (x86)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
64 bit (x86)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
64 bit (x86)
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
64 bit (x86)
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
64 bit (x86)

Community Supported guest operating systems

Guest
OpenShift Virtualization version
Operating System
OS Architecture
4.15
4.16
Fedora 38
64 bit (x86)
Not supported due to EOL [4]
Not supported due to EOL [4]
Fedora 39
64 bit (x86)
Fedora 40
64 bit (x86)
CentOS 7
64 bit (x86)
Not supported due to EOL [4]
Not supported due to EOL [4]
CentOS Stream 8
64 bit (x86)
Not supported due to EOL [4]
Not supported due to EOL [4]
CentOS Stream 9
64 bit (x86)

[4] : The operating system has reached its end of life. Customers are recommended to review the community support policies relating to support for end of life products.

Other guest operating systems

If an operating system is not listed, then support for that guest operating system will be provided in accordance with Red Hat's Third-Party Software Support Policy.

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