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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 2025 Essentials No No Standard, Datacenter Yes Yes 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 11 Home, Professional, Enterprise 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. To fix the issue, refer to this solution.

For a Windows in-place upgrade to work, install the guest tools inside a virtual machine and restart it, as described in Installing guest tools. Linux

Distribution Version CPU hot plug support RAM hot plug support Rocky Linux 10.x, 9.x, 8.x Yes Yes AlmaLinux 10.x, 9.x, 8.x Yes Yes CentOS 9.x, 8.x, 7.x Yes Yes 6.x No No Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.x, 9.x, 8.x, 7.x Yes Yes Debian 12.x, 11.x, 10.x, 9.x Yes Yes Ubuntu 24.04.x LTS, 22.04.x, 20.04.x, 18.04.x Yes Yes Oracle Linux 10.x, 9.x, 8.x, 7.3, 7.9 Yes Yes SUSE Linux Enterprise 15.x (SP3–SP7) Yes Yes