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)