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System Requirements
Hardware Requirements
- Processor. 266MHz or faster processor (400MHz or faster recommended),
single or multiprocessor.
- Memory. 128MB minimum (256MB recommended).
- Disk drives. 20MB free
space required for basic installation. At least 500MB free disk space
recommended for guest operating system and applications.
Supported Host Operating Systems
- Windows .NET Web Server beta 3, Windows .NET Standard Server beta 3 and
Windows .NET Enterprise Server beta 3 (experimental)
- Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Home Edition
- Windows 2000 Professional, Server and Advanced Server; Service Pack 2
- Windows NT Workstation 4.0 and Windows NT Server 4.0; Service Pack 3 or higher
- Red Had Linux 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2
- SuSE Linux 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, SLES 7
- Mandrake Linux 8.0, 8.1
- Caldera OpenLinux 2.x
Supported Guest Operating Systems
The operating systems listed here have been tested in VMware Workstation virtual
machines and are officially supported.
Other operating systems designed for Intel-based PCs may work, as well.
Microsoft Windows
- Windows .NET Standard Server beta 3 (experimental)
- Windows .NET Enterprise Server beta 3 (experimental)
- Windows .NET Web Server beta 3 (experimental)
- Windows XP Home Edition
- Windows XP Professional
- Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 2
- Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 2
- Windows 2000 Advanced Server Service Pack 2
- Windows NT (version 4.0 with Service Pack 3, 4, 5 and 6a for both
Workstation and Server)
- Windows Me
- Windows 98 and Windows 98 SE
- Windows 95
- Windows for Workgroups
- Windows 3.1
MS-DOS (MS-DOS version 6 is supported.)
Linux. The following types of Linux operating systems are supported:
- Mandrake Linux 8.0 and 8.1
- Red Hat Linux 6.2, 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2
- SuSE Linux 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and SLES 7
- Caldera OpenLinux 2.x
FreeBSD. The following versions of FreeBSD are supported:
- FreeBSD 3.x, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5
Note: If you use SCSI virtual disks larger than 2GB with FreeBSD 3.x or
4.x (up to and including 4.3), there are known problems, and the guest operating
system does not boot. To work around this issue, you need to set the disk
geometry for a FreeBSD SCSI virtual disk. For more information, visit the VMware
Web site at www.vmware.com/support/reference/common/fbsd_scsi.html.
For the most current list of supported and unsupported operating systems,
see http://www.vmware.com/support/ws3/doc/intro_sysreqs_ws.html.
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