Supported guest operating systems

The guest operating systems listed below have been tested and are supported in virtual machines.

Only the x64 architecture is supported.

Windows

Version	Edition	CPU hot plug support	RAM hot plug support
Windows Server 2022	Essentials	No	No
Standard, Datacenter	Yes	Yes
Windows Server 2019	Essentials	No	No
Standard, Datacenter	Yes	Yes
Windows Server 2016	Essentials	No	No
Standard, Datacenter	Yes*	Yes
Windows Server 2012 R2	Essentials, Standard, Datacenter	Yes	Yes
Windows Server 2012	Standard, Datacenter	Yes	Yes
Windows Server 2008 R2	Standard, Datacenter	No	No
Windows 10	Home, Professional, Enterprise, Enterprise 2016 LTSB	No	No
Windows 8.1	Home, Professional, Enterprise	No	No

* CPU hot plug does not work properly due to a Windows bug with a wrongly installed driver.

Linux

Distribution	Version	CPU hot plug support	RAM hot plug support
Rocky Linux	8.x, 9.x	Yes	Yes
AlmaLinux	8.x, 9.x	Yes	Yes
CentOS	8.x, 9.x	Yes	Yes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	8.x, 9.x	Yes	Yes
Debian	12.x, 11.x, 10.x	Yes	Yes
Ubuntu	20.04.x, 22.04.x, 24.04.x	Yes	Yes
Oracle Linux	8.x, 9.x	Yes	Yes