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Managing Virtual Machines and Containers
General Migration Requirements
Before deciding on the type of migration to perform, make sure that the source computer (i.e. the
computer that you will migrate or that stores the virtual machine and Container before its migration)
and the destination computer (i.e. the computer that runs Parallels Server Bare Metal and that will
host the resulting virtual machine and Container) meet the requirements below.
Requirements for the source computer
The source computer can be a physical computer, a virtual machine, or a Container. The software
requirements for source computers are given in the following table:
Operating System Physical Computer Virtual Machine Container
Windows
Windows 7 (x32, x64) + + -
Windows Server 2003 (x32, x64) + + +
Windows Server 2008 (x32, x64) + + +
Windows 2000 Server (x32)
56
+ + -
Windows XP (x32, x64) + + -
Windows Vista (x32, x64) + + -
Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x32,
x64)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (x32,
x64)
+ + +
+ + +
CentOS 5 (x32, x64) + + +
CentOS 4 (x32, x64) + + +
Fedora 11 (x32, x64) + + +
Fedora 10 (x32, x64) + + +
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
(x32, x64)
+ + +
Debian GNU/Linux 5 (x32, x64) + + +
Debian GNU/Linux 4 (x32, x64) + + +
Ubuntu Linux 9.04 Server (x32, x64) + + +
Ubuntu Linux 8.10 Server (x32, x64) + + +
Note: In the current version of Parallels Server Bare Metal, you cannot migrate Containers running
Windows Server 2008 to virtual machines.