Hyper-V Windows Server 2012 guest VM support

In this section, we will cover the guest operating systems supported by Windows Server 2012. We will also divide these supported operating systems into two major categories in the server and the client operating systems.

Guest server operating systems

All the following listed server operating systems are supported to be virtualized on Windows Server 2012:

  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1
  • Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 2
  • Windows Server 2008
  • Windows Home Server 2011
  • Windows Small Business Server 2011
  • Windows Server 2003 R2 with Service Pack 2
  • Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2
  • CentOS 6.0 to 6.2
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 to 6.2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise ...

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