Any guest OS support matrix on Proxmox?

[stevenyiu]

Hi All,

I only can found the hardware requirement for installation Proxmox VE. May I know does Proxmox has a list to show all supporting Guest OS? e.g. Windows 2003 32-Bit....thanks

 

[tom]

A good start:

https://linux-kvm.org/page/Guest_Support_Status

Win 2003 is out of support and not the best OS nowadays, just to note.

 

[gfngfn256]

Windows 2003 32-Bit

I'm running a Windows XP Home Edition 2002 SP3 (32-bit) on my fully updated PVE environment without issue.
On a 32-bit OS there will be different RAM constraints than a 64-bit OS.

 

[LnxBil]

I'm running a Windows XP Home Edition 2002 SP3 (32-bit) on my fully updated PVE environment without issue.
On a 32-bit OS there will be different RAM constraints than a 64-bit OS.

Support does not mean that things that are not supported will not run. The guest support ist mainly up to the guest OS. Running DOS will also work, yet you will not have any guest integration and problems shutting down the VM from the outside (not stopping and not from the inside), yet the "VM experience" is not on par with e.g. modern OSes.

EDIT: Also things like PCIe passthrough will not work on XP or any other non-UEFI-OS

 

[gfngfn256]

Support does not mean that things that are not supported will not run. The guest support ist mainly up to the guest OS. Running DOS will also work, yet you will not have any guest integration and problems shutting down the VM from the outside (not stopping and not from the inside), yet the "VM experience" is not on par with e.g. modern OSes.

I fully agree with your statement & will only add that my above posted statement does not implicitly or otherwise mention any type of support.

 

[Kingneutron]

Support does not mean that things that are not supported will not run. The guest support ist mainly up to the guest OS. Running DOS will also work, yet you will not have any guest integration and problems shutting down the VM from the outside (not stopping and not from the inside), yet the "VM experience" is not on par with e.g. modern OSes.

EDIT: Also things like PCIe passthrough will not work on XP or any other non-UEFI-OS

You'd think that the qemu guest agent would be fairly easy to port to FreeDOS, but I guess it's a niche-use case and not enough demand for it

 

[BobhWasatch]

You'd think that the qemu guest agent would be fairly easy to port to FreeDOS, but I guess it's a niche-use case and not enough demand for it

DOS doesn't multi-task so it would have to be a terminate-and-stay-resident program. Might be a bigger change than one would think. Plus there's no demand .