Guest Operating Systems
On Compute Cloud@Customer, you can use choose to create instances from various images. Each image provides a particular instance guest OS. This section lists the types of guest OSs you can use.
Images of Oracle Linux and Oracle Solaris are provided as part of the Compute Cloud@Customer software (platform images), and new image versions are added over time through upgrades.
You can bring your own images (BYOI). Several guest OSs are part of Oracle testing and are known to work in Compute Cloud@Customer instances. The following table provides an overview.
Also see Images for Compute Cloud@Customer Instances.
|
Guest Operating System |
Oracle-Provided Image |
Custom Image |
Oracle-Tested |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Oracle Linux 9.x |
Y |
Y |
Y |
|
Oracle Linux 8.x |
Y |
Y |
Y |
|
Oracle Linux 7.x |
Y |
Y |
Y |
|
Oracle Solaris 11.x |
Y |
Y |
Y |
|
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.x |
Y |
Y |
|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x |
Y |
Y |
|
|
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x |
Y |
Y |
|
|
CentOS Linux 8.x |
Y |
Y |
|
|
CentOS Linux 7.x |
Y |
Y |
|
|
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 (latest) |
Y |
Y |
|
|
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 |
Y |
Y |
|
|
Ubuntu 20.04 and later |
Y |
Y |
|
|
Ubuntu 18.04 and later |
Y |
Y |
|
|
AlmaLinux OS 9.2 |
Y |
Y |
|
|
Kali Linux |
Y |
Y |
|
|
Microsoft Windows Server 2022 |
Y |
Y |
|
|
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 |
Y |
Y |
|
|
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 |
Y |
Y |
|
|
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 |
Y |
Y |
|
|
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 |
Y |
Y |