Guest

Guest bitness

Host version

Host cpu

Host bitness

Status

Comments

Windows Server 2008 (Datacenter)

64

kvm-64

Intel, AMD

64

Works

by Alexey.E.

Windows Server 2008 (Datacenter)

32

kvm-64

Intel, AMD

64, 32

Works

by Alexey.E.

Windows Vista Ultimate

64

kvm-64

Intel, AMD

64

Works

Not Aero Glass capable. by Alexey.E.

Windows Vista Ultimate

32

kvm-64

Intel, AMD

64, 32

Works

Not Aero Glass capable. by Alexey.E.

Windows Server 2003 x64

64

kvm-64

Intel, AMD

64

Works

by Alexey.E.

Windows Server 2003 (Enterprise)

32

kvm-64

Intel

32, 64

Works

by Alexey.E.

Windows Server 2003 (Enterprise)

32

kvm-64

AMD

64

Works

by Alexey.E.

Windows XP Pro x64

64

kvm-64

Intel, AMD

64

Works

by Alexey.E.

Windows XP Pro

32

kvm-64

Intel

32, 64

Works

by Alexey.E.

Windows XP Pro

32

kvm-64

AMD

64

Works

by Alexey.E.

Windows 2000 Pro (SP4)

32

kvm-64

Intel, AMD

64

Works

use Qcow2 format. Setup may be unstable, so retry several times. by Alexey.E.

Windows 2000 Pro (SP4)

32

kvm-64

Intel

32

Works

use Qcow2 format. Setup may be unstable, so retry several times. by Alexey.E.

Windows 2000 Advanced Server

32

kvm-44

Intel

64

Works

use Qcow2 format.

Windows NT 4.0 (SP1)

32

kvm-28

Intel

32

Works

Windows NT 4.0 (SP6a)

32

kvm-28

Intel

32

Works

Crashes starting the GUI. Works with -no-kvm

Windows 98SE

32

kvm-63

Intel

32

FAILS

by Alexey.E. (halts when booting HIMEM)

Windows 98SE

32

kvm-44, 2.6.23-rc8

AMD

64, 32

no way

Windows 95

32

kvm-44, 2.6.23-rc8

AMD

64, 32

no way

Guest

Guest bitness

Host version

Host cpu

Host bitness

Status

Comments

F9 (BETA)

32

kvm-64

Intel, AMD

64

Works

by Alexey.E.

F8

64

kvm-64

Intel, AMD

64

Works

by Alexey.E.

F8

32

kvm-64

Intel, AMD

64

Works

by Alexey.E.

F7

64

kvm-64

Intel, AMD

64

Works

by Alexey.E.

F7

32

kvm-64

Intel, AMD

64

Works

by Alexey.E.

FC6

32

kvm-26

Intel, AMD

32, 64

Works

FC5

32, 64

kvm-12

Intel, AMD

32, 64

Works

Trixbox (CentOS)

32

kvm-12

Intel

64

Works

Red Hat Linux 9

32

kvm-51

Intel

64

Works

by Alexey.E.

Red Hat Linux 7

32

kvm-52

Intel, AMD

64

Crashes

Fails on init. by Alexey.E.

RHEL5/CentOS 5

64

kvm-64

Intel, AMD

64

Works

by Alexey.E.

RHEL5/CentOS 5

32

kvm-64

Intel, AMD

64

Works

by Alexey.E. (SMP is unstable)

CentOS 4.6

32

kvm-62

Intel

32

Works

by EddyMulyono

Guest

Guest bitness

Host version

Host cpu

Host bitness

Status

Comments

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Beta)

32, 64

kvm-64

Intel, AMD

32, 64

Works

by Alexey.E. (some issues with virtio)

Ubuntu 7.10

32, 64

kvm-62

Intel,AMD

32, 64

Crashes, Workaround exists

Install using Qemu, remove GFX boot. by Alexey.E.

Ubuntu 7.10 Server

64

kvm-60

AMD

64

Works

No framebuffer (black screen at first). Hit enter to start installer.

Ubuntu 7.10 Server

32

kvm-60/61

Intel

64

Doesn't work

Installer crashes (by Ryota Ozaki)

Ubuntu 7.04

32, 64

kvm-62

Intel,AMD

32, 64

Crashes, Workaround exists

Install using Qemu, remove GFX boot. by Alexey.E.

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server

32

kvm-20

Intel

32

Works

use -no-acpi

Debian Etch 4.0

64

kvm-64

Intel, AMD

64

Works

by Alexey.E.

Debian Etch 4.0

32

kvm-64

Intel

64, 32

Works

by Alexey.E.

Debian Etch 4.0

32

kvm-64

AMD

64

FAILS, workaround exists

by Alexey.E. (manually choose i586 kernel, do not use default "k7" kernel)

Debian Sarge 3.1

32

kvm-12

Intel

32

Works

Debian Sarge 3.1

32

kvm-12

Intel

64

Mostly works

Install hangs, will install via -no-kvm. Runs fine after

Xandros 3 OCE

32

kvm-29

Intel

64

Works

by Alexey.E.

KNOPPIX 5.1.1

32

kvm-18

Intel

64

Works

use nmi_watchdog=0 or nolapic kernel parameter to boot

Knoppix 5.2

32

kvm-18

Intel

32

Works

Guest

Guest bitness

Host version

Host cpu

Host bitness

Status

Comments

Slackware 11

32

kvm-15

Intel

64

Works

using test26.s kernel

Slackware 12

32

kvm-36

Intel

32

Works

openSUSE 11.0 (Alpha 3)

32

kvm-64

Intel

64

Works

by Alexey.E.

openSUSE 10.3

32

kvm-57

AMD

64

Works

by Alexey.E.

openSUSE 10.3

32/64

kvm-64

Intel

64, 32

Crashes, Workaround exists

Start kvm with -no-kvm for installation. Remove graphical GRUB. by Alexey.E.

openSUSE 10.2

32/64

kvm-28/kvm-51

Intel

64

Crashes, Workaround exists

Start kvm with -no-kvm for installation. Remove graphical GRUB. by Alexey.E.

SUSE Linux 10.0

32

kvm-64

Intel

64, 32

Crashes, Workaround exists

Start kvm with -no-kvm for installation. Remove graphical GRUB. by Alexey.E.

SUSE Linux 9.1

32

kvm-64

Intel/AMD

64, 32

Works

by Alexey.E.

Qemu-Puppy 2.01-3

32

kvm-17/18

Intel

32

Works

Qemu-Puppy 2.13-1

32

kvm-17/18

Intel

32

Works

SystemRescueCD 0.3.4

32

kvm-18

Intel

64

Works

Works fine, except for initial X-setting "cirrus" - changed to "vesa", then works.

Gentoo 2006.1

32

kvm-24

Intel

64

Works

Gentoo 2007.0

32

kvm-24

Intel

64

Works

Arch Linux (Duke)

32

kvm-17

AMD

64

Works

Host: 2.6.21-ARCH, guest: 2.6.22-rc5-ARCH says "booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware"

Mandrake Linux 9.2

32

kvm-51

Intel

64

Works

by Alexey.E.

Mandriva 2007

32

kvm-51

Intel

64

Crashes, Workaround exists

start kvm with -no-kvm for installation. Remove graphical GRUB. by Alexey.E.

Mandriva 2008

32

kvm-51

Intel

64

Crashes, Workaround exists

start kvm with -no-kvm for installation. Remove graphical GRUB. by Alexey.E.

Mandriva 2008.1

32

kvm-64

Intel

64, 32

Crashes, Workaround exists

start kvm with -no-kvm for installation. Remove graphical GRUB. by Alexey.E.

Guest

Guest bitness

Host version

Host cpu

Host bitness

Status

Comments

OpenBSD 4.2

32

kvm-58

Intel

32

Works

OpenBSD 4.1

32

kvm-64

Intel, AMD

64

Works

by Alexey.E.

OpenBSD 4.0

64

kvm-12

Intel

64

Works

OpenBSD 4.0

32

kvm-16 + CVS

Intel

64

Works

FreeBSD 6.1

32

kvm-17/18

Intel

32

Works

FreeBSD 6.2

64

kvm-12

AMD

64

Works

FreeBSD 6.2

32

kvm-16 + CVS

AMD

64

Works

FreeBSD 6.3

32

Fedora 8 - kvm-37-7.fc8

Intel

64

works

FreeBSD 6.3

32

Debian Lenny, kvm-60

AMD

64

Works

No issues in several weeks of testing. Freddie

FreeBSD 6.3

64

Debian Lenny, kvm-60

AMD

64

Works

No issues in several weeks of testing. Freddie

FreeBSD 7.0

32

Debian Lenny, kvm-60

AMD

64

Works

No issues in several weeks of testing. Tested with 1 and 2 virtual CPUs. Freddie

FreeBSD 7.0

64

Debian Lenny, kvm-60

AMD

64

Works

No issues in several weeks of testing. Tested with 1 and 2 virtual CPUs. Freddie

FreeBSD 7.0

32

OpenSUSE 10.3 kvm-63

AMD

64

works

disk i/o issues? "ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=XXXXXXX"

FreeBSD 7.0

64

OpenSUSE 10.3 kvm-63

AMD

64

crashes after boot loader

GNU/kFreeBSD

64

kvm-15

AMD

64

Works

GNU/kFreeBSD

32

kvm-16 + CVS

AMD

64

Works

NetBSD 3.1

32

kvm-17/18

Intel

32

Works

NetBSD 3.1

32

kvm-21

AMD

64

Works

NetBSD 4.0

32

kvm-60

Intel

64

Works

avoid hangup on boot with --no-acpi and network card timeout by trying out a different card, e.g. -net nic,model=ne2k_pci

PC-BSD 1.4

32

kvm-56

Intel

64

Works

By Alexey.E.

DragonflyBSD 1.10.1

32

kvm-58

Intel

64

Works

avoid kvm-[64-67] which require -no-kvm-pit to work; use -net nic,model=e1000 to avoid network timeouts

Guest

Guest bitness

Host version

Host cpu

Host bitness

Status

Comments

Solaris 10 U1

32

kvm-12

Intel

64

Works

later releases will detect the CPU is 64 bit capable and try to default to run a 64 bit kernel and fail, for those you have to override Solaris autodetection by adding "kernel/unix" to the kernel multiboot entry in GRUB

Solaris 10 U3

64

kvm-58 + patch

Intel

64

Works

needs additional patch to kvm for kvm kernel longmode

Nexenta Core 1.0

64

kvm-61

Intel

64

Works

needs additional patch to kvm for kvm kernel longmode. Use -m 512 -net nic,model=e1000 (or any other than the default rtl adapter)

OpenSolaris 2008.05

64

kvm-68

Intel

64

Works

needs additional patch to kvm for kvm kernel longmode. Use -m 512 -net nic,model=e1000 (or any other than the default rtl adapter)

Guest

Guest bitness

Host version

Host cpu

Host bitness

Status

Comments

Darwin 8.0.1

32

kvm-29

Intel

64

Crashes

by Alexey.E.

MINIX 3.1.2a

32

kvm-28

Intel

64

Crashes

Crashes when loading MINIX's boot monitor and exits with exception 13, although it runs fine with -no-kvm

GNU hurd live CD (20051117)

32

kvm-28

Intel

32

Works

Seems to have networking problems.

GNU/Hurd (Debian K14)

32

kvm-33

Intel

32

Works

screenshot

GNU/Hurd (Debian K16)

32

kvm-66

AMD

64

Needs -no-kvm-pit

Guest

Guest bitness

Host version

Host cpu

Host bitness

Status

Comments

Haiku OS

32

kvm-12

AMD

64

Works

screenshot

Amiga Research OS (AROS)

32

kvm-12

AMD

64

Works

LiveCD tested. screenshot

Amiga Research OS (AROS)

32

kvm-58

Intel

32

Works

LiveCD tested.

ReactOS 0.3.0

32

kvm-14

AMD

64

Works

screenshot

FreeDOS 1.0

32

kvm-12/14

Intel

64

Work(ish)

Can only be installed from live CD by disabling kvm and using qemu only. Upper memory management (himem.exe) crashed kvm. Some other drivers do so as well. Step through booting using F8 to determine which. DOS is confined to the lower 640K of memory. See bug 1666308.

MS DOS 6.22

32

kvm-28

Intel

32

Stops

It seems to stop booting after HIMEM.

Syllable 0.61

32

kvm-29

Intel

64

Crashes

by Alexey.E.

Visopsys 0.62

32

kvm-29

Intel

64

Crashes

by Alexey.E.

Plan 9

32

kvm-68

Intel

64

Works

needs -no-kvm-irqchip