Specifications

Installing and Configuring Linux Guest Operating Systems

 “ImprovingGuestOperatingSystemAccountingforDescheduledVirtualMachinesinESXServer3.x

Systems”

http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/526

 InstructionsondownloadingandinstallingadriverfortheBusLogicvirtualSCSIadapter

http://www.vmware.com/download/esx/drivers_tools.html

 “LinuxGuestMovedtoaSystemwithDifferentProcessorTypePanicsDuringBoot”

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1572

 OpenVirtualMachineToolsmainpageatSourceforge

http://open‐vm‐tools.sourceforge.net/

 ParavirtualizationAPIVersion2.5specification

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmi_specs.pdf

 “PerformanceofVMwareVMI“

http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/1038

 “RHEL5andFC7GuestsInstalledwithRedHatVirtualizationAffectsPerformanceofVirtualMachine”

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/9134325

 SUSELinuxEnterpriseServerinformation

http://www.novell.com/products/server/

 “TimekeepingbestpracticesforLinux“

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006427

 “TimekeepinginVMwareVirtualMachines“

http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/1066

 UbuntuLinuxdownloadpage

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

 VMwareUpdateManagerReleaseNotes

http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vi_pages/vi_pubs_35u2.html

 “UsingPXE(PrebootExecutionEnvironment)toInstallGuestOperatingSystemsoveraNetwork“

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1162

Appendix A: Linux Versions Supported on ESX Server

Table8liststheLinuxandFreeBSDversionssupportedonspecificversionsofESXServer.SeetheGuest

OperatingSystemInstallationGuideforthemostrecentcompatibilityinformation.Foralink,see“Resources”

onpage 19.

Table 8. Supported Linux and FreeBSD Operating Systems

Guest Operating System ESX Server

CentOS5.0 3.0.3‐3.5U2

RedHatEnterpriseLinux53.0.2‐3.5U2

RedHatEnterpriseLinux42.5.2‐3.5U2

RedHatEnterpriseLinux32.0.1‐3.5U2

RedHatEnterpriseLinux2.1 2.0‐3.5U2

RedHatLinux9.0 2.0‐2.5.5

RedHatLinux8.0 2.0‐2.5.5

RedHatLinux7.3 2.0‐2.5.5

RedHatLinux7.2 2.0‐2.5.5

SUSELinuxEnterprise

Server10 3.0.1‐3.5U2

SUSELinuxEnterpriseServer92.5‐3.5U2