== Officially Supported Guest Operating Systems ==In the world of VMware Server 2.0 there are supported and unsupported guest operating systems. it is important to understand, however, that just because an opearing systems is not officially supported to run within a VMware Server virtual machine does not necessarily mean it will not actually work in this environment. In fact, the majority of operating systems missing from the officially supported list will actually run without any problems in VMware Server.
Guest If the required guest operating systems fall into two categories, system is not officially supported it is still worth trying to run it inside a virtual machine. After all, when virtual machine can be created in minutes and unsupporteddeleted in seconds, there is little to lose in experimenting. As with host operating systems == Unsupported Linux Guest Operating Systems == There are many Linux distributions freely available today, just because and as such it would be impossible for VMware to validate every single one. It is important to note, however, that even if a specific Linux guest operating system is not officially supported listed, it does not necessarily mean that it won't will not run as a guest operating system in within VMware Server 2.0 virtual machine. For exampleIn fact, Fedora Linux it is not, at usually sufficient to select the time closest match from the list. In the case of writingunsupported Linux distributions, an officially supported guest identify the kernel version (current versions are 2.4 and 2.6) and whether the operating systemis 32-bit or 64-bit, yet based on testing it appears to function and then make an appropriate selection from the ''Other Linux'' options. In most cases, the Linux distribution will run perfectly well within (or at least no less perfectly than a supported distribution) within the VMware Server 2.0 virtual machine. == Officially Supported Guest Operating Systems ==
With this information the aboveinformation in mind, the following tables list the current officially supported VMware Server 2.0 guest operating systems:
=== Microsoft Windows (64-bit) ===
