Tested Operating System

The following describes the tested operating systems and their roles in a virtualization environment.

Virtualization Mode	Supported Host OS	Supported Guest OS
None	Windows Server 2016 / 2019 / 2022 / 2025 Windows 10 Client 21H2 Windows 11 Client 23H2 / 24H2 / 25H2	N/A
VMQ	Windows Server 2016 / 2019 / 2022 / 2025	Windows Server 2016 / 2019 / 2022 / 2025 Windows 10 Client 21H2 Windows 11 Client 23H2 / 24H2 / 25H2
SR-IOV (Ethernet)	Windows Server 2016 / 2019 / 2022 / 2025	Windows Server 2016 / 2019 / 2022 / 2025 Windows 10 Client 21H2 Windows 11 Client 23H2 / 24H2 / 25H2 Ubuntu 20.04 / 22.04 / 24.04 SLES15.3 SP3 5.3.18-57-default SLES15.6 SP6 RHEL 8.9 / 9.6 FreeBSD 15
SR-IOV (InfiniBand)	Windows Server 2016 / 2019 / 2022 / 2025	Windows Server 2016 / 2019 / 2022 / 2025 Windows 10 Client 21H2 Windows 11 Client 23H2 / 24H2 / 25H2 Ubuntu 20.04 5.13.0-1017-azure + DOCA-Host 3.3.0 Ubuntu 22.04 + DOCA-Host 3.3.0 Ubuntu 24.04 + DOCA-Host 3.3.0 SLES15.3 SP3 5.3.18-57-default + DOCA-Host 3.3.0 SLES15.6 SP6 + DOCA-Host 3.3.0 CentOS/RHEL 8.9 + DOCA-Host 3.3.0 Centos/RHEL 9.6 + DOCA-Host 3.3.0