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System Requirements


Take the following list of requirements as a starting point. Like physical computers, the virtual machines running under VMware or Hyper-V generally perform better if they have faster processors and more memory.

 
1. Server Hardware
2. Memory
3. Display
4. Hard Disk
5. Optical CD-ROM/DVD-ROM Drive
6. Local Area Networking
7. Host Operating System


Server Hardware

  • Standard x86-compatible personal computer
  • 1 GHz or faster CPU minimum (2 GHz recommended)
  • Compatible processors include
    • Intel™: Celeron™, Pentium™ II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, Pentium M (including computers with Centrino™ mobile technology), Xeon™ (including "Prestonia")
    AMD™: Athlon™, Athlon MP, Athlon XP, Duron™, Opteron™, Experimental support for AMD Sempron™
    Multiprocessor systems supported
    64-bit processor support for AMD64 Opteron, Athlon 64 and Intel IA-32e CPU (including "Nocona")


Memory

  • 1 GB minimum (2 GB recommended)


Display

  • 16-bit or 32-bit display adapter recommended


Hard Disk

  • IDE and SCSI hard drives supported, up to 950GB capacity
  • At least 1GB free disk space recommended
    • For VMware Installation — 80MB (Linux) or 150MB (Windows) free disk space required for basic installation. You can delete the installer afterwards to reclaim 56 - 60MB

Optical CD-ROM/DVD-ROM Drive

  • IDE and SCSI optical drives supported
  • CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives supported


Local Area Networking

  • Any Ethernet controller supported by the host operating system
  • Non-Ethernet networks supported using built-in network address translation (NAT) or using a combination of host-only networking plus routing software on the host operating system


Host Operating System

  • Windows Host Operating Systems (32-bit)
    • Windows Server 2003 Web Edition, Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, Service Pack 1 (listed versions also supported with no service pack)

    Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 1 or 2 (listed versions also supported with no service pack)

    Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 3 or 4, Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 3 or 4, Windows 2000 Advanced Server Service Pack 3 or 4 (listed versions also supported with no service pack)

    Microsoft Windows Vista (VMware Player only)
  • Windows Host Operating Systems (64-bit)
    • Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 64-bit edition
    Experimental support for prerelease Windows XP 64-bit edition
  • Linux Host Operating Systems
    • Mandrake Linux 9+
    SUSE Linux 7.3+
    Red Hat Linux 7.2+
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1+
  • Mac OS X Host Operating Systems (VMware Fusion or VirtualBox)
    • Intel® Mac required
    Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later
    Minimum 1GB of RAM (2GB RAM recommended)
    400 MB free disk space for VMware Fusion, and at least 5GB for each virtual machine.