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VMware for Linux - System Requirements
Hardware requirements for the host machine
- Standard PC* with Intel® Pentium® or later, or compatible processor
- Pentium II 266MHz or faster, or equivalent compatible processor, recommended
- Multiprocessor systems supported
- Enough memory to run the LinuxTM host operating system
- Plus memory required for each guest operating system and applications
- Minimum 96MB recommended
- Video adapter supported by the
XFree86 Server (to take advantage of our full screen option)
*The SGI® 320 and 540 Visual Workstations are not standard
architecture PCs and are not currently supported by VMware for Windows
NT and Windows 2000. VMware is uncertain if or when these products
will be supported.
Software requirements
- VMware host operating system requirements
Standard Linux distributions with glibc version 2 or higher and one of the following:
- Kernel 2.0.32 or higher for non-SMP systems
- Kernel 2.2.0 for SMP systems
VMware will not run on systems that do not meet these requirements.
- VMware has been tested and is officially supported on the following host operating systems
- Red Hat Linux 5.x and 6.0
- Caldera OpenLinux 1.3, 2.2 and 2.3
- SuSE Linux 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2
VMware may run on other Linux distributions; attempting to do so is recommended for expert Linux users only.
- VMware requires an X-Server:
- XFree86-3.3.3.1 or higher release
- XFree86 version 3.3.4 or later server recommended
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