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Table Of Contents
- Getting Started with VMware Fusion
- Introduction
- What You Can Do with VMware Fusion
- System Requirements for VMware Fusion
- Install or Upgrade VMware Fusion
- Start VMware Fusion
- Getting Up and Running
- Create a Windows Virtual Machine with Windows Easy Install
- Create a Virtual Machine from the Boot Camp Partition
- Import an Existing PC to a Virtual Machine
- Import an Existing Parallels Desktop or Microsoft Virtual PC 7.0 Virtual Machine
- Download a Virtual Appliance from the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace
- Using Mac Keyboards in a Virtual Machine
- Correct Sound Problems in Virtual Machines Running Vista 32-Bit Edition
- Quit Your Virtual Machine
- VMware Fusion Resources
- Supported Guest Operating Systems
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Supported Guest Operating Systems
VMware Fusion supports over 60 guest operating systems, including
Windows 3.1 through Windows 2008, Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD. The
operating systems listed here have been tested in VMware Fusion virtual
machines and are officially supported. For the most recent list of guest
operating systems supported by VMware products, with notes on installing
the most common guest operating systems, see the VMware Guest Operating
System Installation Guide: http://pubs.vmware.com/guestnotes/.
Supported 32-Bit Guest Operating Systems
VMware Fusion supports the following 32-bit guest operating systems:
Mac OS X Server v10.5 Leopard (experimental)
Windows Vista Business, Enterprise, Ultimate, Home Basic, and Home
Premium Editions
Windows Vista Business, Enterprise, Ultimate, Home Basic, and Home
Premium SP1 Editions
Windows XP Professional SP2, Home Edition SP2
Windows XP Professional SP3, Home Edition SP3
Windows 98 SE
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, R2 Enterprise Edition
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP2
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition
(experimental)
Windows 2000 Server SP4, Advanced Server SP4, Windows 2000
Professional SP4
Windows NT 4.0 Server SP6a, Workstation SP6a
Windows Me, Windows 3.1, Windows 95 SP1, MS-DOS 6.x