System Requirements

In order to use the paravirtualized drivers contained in the SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack, the underlying hardware must be Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel-VT) or AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) enabled. Furthermore, the host operating system must be SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 and Xen 3.2 at a minimum though the recommended host is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and Xen 3.3.

Minimum system requirements for installation & operation

The requirements for Full Virtual Windows and Full Virtual Red Hat Enterprise Linux satisfies the criteria for VMDP as well. For further details refer to the guest OS specific documentation.

Drivers themselves use very minimal disc space (less than 5 MB).

Recommended system requirements

• Minimum 512 MB RAM for Xen virtual host server
• Minimum additional 256 MB RAM per Xen virtual machine (except for Win 2008 Server which requires 1 GB RAM)

Supported processor platforms

• x86
• x86-64 - AMD64 (AMD-V) & Intel64 (Intel-VT)

Both need AMD-V or Intel-VT hardware-assisted technology