Before you install cPanel & WHM or cPanel DNSONLY, make certain that your server's software meets the following minimum requirements for new installations.
| Operating system | Additional restrictions |
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CentOS versions 5.x, 6.x, or 7.x |
New installations of cPanel & WHM on CentOS servers must use CentOS version 6.0 or higher. |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux® versions 5.x or 6.x | New installations of cPanel & WHM on RHEL servers must use RHEL version 6 or higher. |
|
CloudLinux™ 5.x or 6.x |
cPanel does not support the use of Xen PV (paravirtualization) with CloudLinux. |
Note:
We support all of the official production release kernels for these operating systems.
| Virtual environment | Additional restrictions |
| KVM | None. |
| Linux-VServer | None. |
|
Microsoft Server® 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Server 2012 Hyper-V |
cPanel only supports the drivers and configurations that Microsoft provides. |
|
OpenVZ |
|
| Oracle VM VirtualBox, VirtualBox OSE | None. |
|
Virtuozzo™ |
CloudLinux is not compatible with Virtuozzo. |
| VMware® Server, VMware ESX Server | None. |
| Xen, XenEnterprise™, XenExpress™, XenServer™ | None. |
| Virtual environment | Additional restrictions |
|
SmartOS |
None. |
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