Guest Operating Systems & Browser Support

Last Modified: 05/30/2013 at 5:54 | Release:

Internet Browsers

A browser is used to connect to the Avance Management Portal.   Using an unsupported browser can result in some rendering problems, and the omission of some wizards such as those used to create, export or restore snapshots

Browser Release
Microsoft Internet Explorer™ IE9[2]
Mozilla Firefox 3.6+
Google Chrome 10.0+

Guest Operating Systems

Vendor OS Release Bits
Microsoft Windows 7 32/64
Microsoft Windows XP SP3 32
Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Web, Small Business, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, SP1, SP2, R2 32
Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Web, Small Business, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, SP2 64
Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Web, Small Business, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, SP1, SP2 32/64
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Web, Small Business, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, SP1 64
Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard, Essential, Premium Add-on 64
RedHat Red hat Enterprise Linux 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, WS, AS, ES 32
RedHat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8 WS, AS, ES[1] 32/64
RedHat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 6.2 6.3 32/64
CentOS CentOS Linux 4.6, 4.7, 4.8 32
CentOS CentOS 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8[1] 32/64
CentOS CentOS 6.1 6.2 6.3 32/64
Ubuntu Ubuntu 12.04[2] 32/64

[1] Starting with Avance Release R2.1.3.11, Avance no longer requires Stratus supplied Linux Kernels patches for RedHat and CentOS versions 5.4 and higher. Full Avance protection is now provided for VMs running the standard Kernel that ships with the Linux distribution. [2] IE8 is not recommended and does not support import, export, restore, or snapshot functionality.

[2] Refer to Ubuntu 12.04 VM Support for details on installing Ubuntu VMs.