Unsupported Guest OSes in VMWare

JDMurray

Is anyone running a guest OS in VMWare other than Windows, Linux, UNIX, NetWare, OS/2 Warp, or MS-DOS? These seem to be the only families of guest OSes supported by VMWare. I'm wondering if anyone has gotten any other OSes running in VMWare, be they network-aware or not.

RTmarc

What are wanting to run?

astorrs

Yeah seriously, what's left after the different O/S's supported in ESX 4.0?

Asianux 3
CentOS 4
CentOS 5
CentOS 5 64-Bit
Debian 4
Debian 5
FreeBSD 6
FreeBSD 7
MS-DOS 6.22
Novell NetWare 5.1
Novell NetWare 6
Open Enterprise Server 2
OS/2 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-Bit
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 64-Bit
SCO OpenServer 5
SCO Unixware 7
Sun Solaris 10 x86
Sun Solaris 10 x86 64-Bit
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 64-Bit
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 64-bit
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 64-Bit
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 64-Bit
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 64-Bit
Ubuntu Linux 7
Ubuntu Linux 7.1 64-Bit
Windows 2000
Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows NT 4.0
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2003 64-Bit
Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 64-Bit
Windows Vista
Windows Vista 64-Bit
Windows XP
Windows XP 64-Bit

Remember they have to be O/S that were built to run on x86 architecture so no VMS, etc.

JDMurray

Well, there are actually quite a few OSes that run on the x86 architecture that aren't Windows, Linux, UNIX, OS/2, NetWare, or MS-DOS (Pick and BeOS being two of them). And I'm wondering if anybody is running any of those on VMWare.

tiersten

JDMurray wrote: »

Well, there are actually quite a few OSes that run on the x86 architecture that aren't Windows, Linux, UNIX, OS/2, NetWare, or MS-DOS (Pick and BeOS being two of them). And I'm wondering if anybody is running any of those on VMWare.

Which Pick system actually ran bare metal on x86? The only Pick system I've got any experience of using/programming for is the jBASE variant and we ran that on AIX. It was also supported on Windows and Linux.

BeOS works fine on ESX.

I'd assume any OS that has a compatible LSI Logic or Buslogic SCSI driver to work under ESX 3.5. If you need IDE then you're going to have to go back to Workstation/Server or use 4.0.

astorrs

Can't believe I forgot about good old BeOS; and like tiersten said it works fine.

As for Pick... what on Earth are you trying to run a 1983 Point of Sale system?

More seriously it appears you can run it under Windows or Linux - but I would also assume ESX 4.0 with its support for IDE drives should work. Don't expect network connectivity though... I don't think ESX supports old DEC NICs with AUI connectors and vampire taps.

tiersten

astorrs wrote: »

As for Pick... what on Earth are you trying to run a 1983 Point of Sale system?

POS? Pfft. When I used Pick (well jBASE) it was because a banking system was written in its BASIC language and used the multivalue system as its backend. You should be able to work out what banking system I'm talking about based on the fact it uses jBASE now.

JDMurray

astorrs wrote: »

As for Pick... what on Earth are you trying to run a 1983 Point of Sale system?

That was a 1993 POS that was still being sold as of last year.

And the only port of Pick that I've ever used installed directly on to x86 PCs from 5.25" floppy disks. I sure do wish I still had a copy of it. I never did get to play with the database part of it very much.