Supported Operating Systems

The following is a list of supported OSes that users can use as the guest operating system when creating their appliance templates.

OS Factory Migration
CentOS 5.2+, 6 (32bit and 64bit), 7 (64bit) 5.2+, 6 (32bit and 64bit), 7 (64bit)
Debian 6 (Squeeze), 7 (Wheezy), 8 (Jessie) (32bit and 64bit) 6 (Squeeze), 7 (Wheezy), 8 (Jessie) (32bit and 64bit)
Fedora 8 to 22 8 to 22
Open SUSE 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2 (32bit and 64bit) 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2 (32bit and 64bit)
Pidora 18 to 21 Not Supported
Raspbian 7 Not Supported
Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 5.2+, 6 (32bit and 64bit), 7 (64bit) 5.2+, 6 (32bit and 64bit), 7 (64bit)
Scientific Linux 5.2+, 6 (32bit and 64bit), 7 (64bit) 5.2+, 6 (32bit and 64bit), 7 (64bit)
Ubuntu LTS 10.04 (Lucid), 12.04 (Precise), 14.04 (Trusty) (32bit and 64bit) 10.04 (Lucid), 12.04 (Precise), 14.04 (Trusty) (32bit and 64bit)
Microsoft Windows Server 2008R2, 2012, 2012R2 2008R2, 2012, 2012R2

Note

For Red Hat Enterprise Linux you must provide the ISO images or access to a repository.

Warning

If you intend to generate machine images for cloud environments, ensure that the operating system you are using in the machine image is correctly supported by the cloud environment. For example, Microsoft Azure supports the following operating systems.

Supported Machine Image Types

The following machine image formats are supported:

  • Physical: ISO
  • Virtual: Hyper-V, KVM, LXC, OVF, QCOW2, Raw, tar.gz, Vagrant Base Box, VHD, VirtualBox, VMWare vCenter, VMware Server, Vagrant, Xen, Citrix XenServer
  • Cloud: Abiquo, Amazon AWS, CloudStack, Cloudwatt, Eucalyptus, Flexiant, Google Compute Engine, Microsoft Azure, Nimbula, OpenStack, SUSE Cloud, VMware vCloud Director