Any guest OS support matrix on Proxmox?
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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.
https://linux-kvm.org/page/Guest_Support_Status
Win 2003 is out of support and not the best OS nowadays, just to note.
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
I fully agree with your statement & will only add that my above posted statement does not implicitly or otherwise mention any type of support.
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 .
and you would need to implement a driver for the PCI serial port that is normally used for communication
The biggest problem I’ve found dealing with DOS is finding a compiler tool chain that will target 80286/8086 level CPU. You also need to emulate some ancient hardware. There are surprisingly still new devices being sold with MS-DOS software but most of the code is based on Borland tools (Pascal) and not C.
I don't believe that list is to be considered completely authoritative & comprehensive - it is just a "crash-report" AFAIK, (but I may be wrong as IDNK how/who the list is/was compiled).
(Also "Fails on init" maybe something specialized being used for creation that fails - you'd have to ask that to Frank.Q.?).
Search these forums for users successfully running RHEL 8 VMs or derivatives thereof. Again, I'm not sure exactly what your OP "supporting Guest OS" means to you.