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Revision History: Virtualization Support in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

2026-09-17

Extended the POWER KVM support statement to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications: KVM on POWER is supported on the same terms in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications as in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

Added that this support statement does not cover running SAP workloads inside a KVM guest on POWER.

2026-09-10

Updated the POWER architecture support statement, replacing the previous statement that running KVM on POWER was not supported: KVM is supported inside a PowerVM logical partition (LPAR) on Power10 or later systems.

Added the minimum firmware and Hardware Management Console (HMC) levels required to run KVM inside a PowerVM LPAR, and a link to the IBM documentation for the full enablement procedure.

2026-08-20

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 is listed as a fully supported (L3) guest operating system using the same product name as the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 service pack listings.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications is listed explicitly as a fully supported (L3) guest operating system, with the same support as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

The Oracle VM Server 3.X link in the third-party host environments list points to the official Oracle VM 3.4 downloads page, not to VirtualBox.

2026-08-13

The list of Red Hat and CentOS version combinations supported under SUSE Multi-Linux Support is provided in the Introduction section of the guide for your SUSE Multi-Linux Support version, not on the SUSE Multi-Linux Support documentation landing page itself.

The Virtual Machine Driver Pack (VMDP) documentation link points to https://documentation.suse.com/sle-vmdp/. See Section 1.5, “Supported guest operating systems” for the current list of supported Windows Server versions.

2026-07-22

Clarified that the guest VM restrictions apply specifically to AMD SEV-SNP confidential computing VMs, not standard VMs, and retitled the section accordingly.

2026-04-15

Added SUSE Linux 16.O as supported host and guest operating systems.

2026-04-15

Revised the supported hosts of SLES 16: a SLE 12 SP5 host can install a SLES 16 guest only using virt-manager.

2026-04-01

Added SUSE Virtualization (Harvester) as a supported KVM host; added SLES 16.0 as a supported guest.

2025-11-27

Initial version