The following certified Red Hat and third-party guest operating systems apply to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server with KVM virtualization. Red Hat also offers Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, which offers greater scalability and more advanced features. To see certified guest operating systems for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, please see Certified guest operating systems for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server with KVM | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server with KVM | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server with KVM | |
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| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 |  |
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| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | |
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| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | |
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| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | |
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| Microsoft Windows Server 2000 32-Bit x86 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 32-Bit x86 | 1,2 |
1,2 |
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| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 64-Bit x86 | 1,2 |
1,2 |
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| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 32-Bit x86 | 1,2 |
1,2 |
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| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 64-Bit x86 | 1,2 |
1,2 |
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| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 32-Bit x86 | 1,2 |
1,2 |
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| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 64-Bit x86 | 1,2 |
1,2 |
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| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 64-Bit x86 | 1,2 |
1,2 |
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| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 64-Bit x86 | 1,2 |
Not supported | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 64-Bit x86 | 1,2 |
Not supported | |
| Microsoft Windows XP 32-Bit x86 | 1,2 |
1,2,3 |
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| Microsoft Windows XP 64-Bit x86 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Vista 32-Bit x86 | 1,2 |
1,2 |
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| Microsoft Windows Vista 64-Bit x86 | 1,2 |
1,2 |
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| Microsoft Windows 7 32-Bit x86 | 1,2 |
1,2 |
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| Microsoft Windows 7 64-Bit x86 | 1,2 |
1,2 |
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| Microsoft Windows 8 32-Bit x86 | 1,2 |
1,2 |
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| Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit x86 | 1,2 |
1,2 |
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| Microsoft Windows 8.1 32-Bit x86 | In process1,2 | In process1,2 | |
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit x86 | In process1,2 | In process1,2 |
Footnotes:
1. Microsoft Windows operating systems certifications only apply to versions RHEL 6.6 and prior and all RHEL 5 releases.
2. For best performance, the para-virtualized I/O drivers (virtio-win) are required to be installed in the Windows guests. The drivers are made available as images in the Supplementary channel of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux host OS. Please refer to this article for details. Please see the Microsoft SVVP site for certification details.
3. As of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5.
Comments
I get confused about certified guest operating systems for RHEL7, in this link:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/973133
there are no windows Certified for RHEL7.
but in RHEL7 ReleaseNote, say RHEL7 support windows8, windows8.1 and windows 2012.
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/pdf/7.0_Release_Notes/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-7-7.0_Release_Notes-en-US.pdf
Which information is correct?
This article is correct. We will fix the Release Notes.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Did I understand that correctly, that no Windows system on RHEL 7 systems (including RedHat OpenStack) is supported?
Is there a reason for this?
That is not entirely correct. Please see https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/973163
That article covers guest operating systems on:
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
- Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure
This article is only for RHEL using the included KVM. As indicated above, Windows is not certified on this platform.