Supported Guest Operating Systems

The OS Assisted Migration service supports migration of virtual machines running non-vSphere guest operating systems in Linux or Windows environments.

Linux Environments

HCX supports various Linux-based 64-bit guest operating systems . The following hypervisors are validated viz. KVM and Hyper-V.

Supported Linux OS versions on KVM Hypervisor (BIOS and EFI)	Supported Linux OS versions on Hyper-V Hypervisor (BIOS and EFI)
CentOS 6.1 - CentOS 6.10	RHEL 7.1 - RHEL 7.9 (BIOS/GEN-1 & UEFI/GEN-2)
RHEL 6.1 - RHEL 6.10	RHEL 6.4 - RHEL 6.10 (BIOS/GEN-1 Only)
CentOS 7.1 - CentOS 7.9	CentOS 7.0 - CentOS 7.9 (BIOS/GEN-1 & UEFI/GEN-2)
RHEL 7.1 - RHEL 7.9	CentOS 6.4 - RHEL 6.10 (BIOS/GEN-1 Only)
RHEL 8.0 - RHEL 8.9	RHEL 8.0 - RHEL 8.9 (BIOS/GEN-1 & UEFI/GEN-2)
CentOS 8.0 - CentOS 8.4	CentOS 8.0 - CentOS 8.4 (BIOS/GEN-1 & UEFI/GEN-2)
Rocky Linux 8.4 - Rocky Linux 8.9 Note: The Guest OS type for Rocky Linux will be reported as Other 4.x Linux [64-bit].	Rocky Linux 8.4 - Rocky Linux 8.9 (BIOS/GEN-1 & UEFI/GEN-2) Note: The Guest OS type for Rocky Linux will be reported as Other 4.x Linux [64-bit].
RHEL 9.0 - RHEL 9.3	RHEL 9.0 - RHEL 9.3 (BIOS/GEN-1 & UEFI/GEN-2)
Rocky Linux 9.0 - Rocky Linux 9.3 Note: The Guest OS type for Rocky Linux will be reported as Other 4.x Linux [64-bit].	Rocky Linux 9.0 - Rocky Linux 9.3 (BIOS/GEN-1 & UEFI/GEN-2) Note: The Guest OS type for Rocky Linux will be reported as Other 4.x Linux [64-bit].
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (BIOS/GEN-1 & UEFI/GEN-2)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (BIOS/GEN-1 & UEFI/GEN-2)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (BIOS/GEN-1 & UEFI/GEN-2)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (BIOS/GEN-1 & UEFI/GEN-2)
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (BIOS/GEN-1 & UEFI/GEN-2)

Windows Environments

HCX supports various 64-bit Windows guest operating systems on KVM or Hyper-V supervisors.

Supported OS versions on KVM Hypervisor	Supported OS versions on Hyper-V Hypervisor
Windows Server 2019	Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2016	Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2012	Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 R2	Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)	Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)
Windows Server 2008 SP2 (64-bit)	Windows Server 2008 SP2 (64-bit)