I have no personal allegiance to any of these operating systems. The list is vendor-neutral, sorted alphabetically.
Use those same channels if you just want to tell me I’m wrong about whatever you come across in this post that’s…you know…wrong. Make sure your recommendations are for images which are freely available from the vendor for lab use with no licensing requirements or other strings attached. Let me know on the Packet Pushers Slack channel or Twitter DM, and I’ll do additional posts or update this list over time. My goal is to clearly document what these images are and how to obtain them, as this data is less obvious than I’d like.
If you do experience technical issues with EVE Online, please contact customer support, who can best advise you with resolving any issues you encounter.Here’s my current list of no cost, minimal headache, easily obtainable networking images that work in a virtual lab environment such as EVE-NG or GNS3. Users of limited support operating systems may be advised to consider fully supported operating systems to resolve any technical issues that arise. While the regular (online) installer will work on Windows XP and issues related to it will receive support from development, the offline installer will not. One current example of this is the offline installer. This means that certain new features, as well as changes to existing content in EVE Online may not function or perform correctly on these platforms, and certain issues experienced only by users of limited support operating systems may not be resolved. Starting on September 15th 2015, Windows XP and Windows Vista will be placed in limited support. The fact that we are leaving these outdated OS behind indicates how different current EVE is from its first iterations. EVE was launched on Windows XP and quickly after upgraded to support Windows Vista as well. It is also worth a mention that it is the end of some era. Windows and Vista have been holding back EVE graphics for many years, but now as they won’t be supported any longer CCP could move to better graphic engines. What is interesting, is the implication of that decision. From that time, the numbers of XP and Vista users has been slowly lowering, so it should not be a change that effects a large group of players. Two years ago CCP Bayesian (Software Engineer) mentioned on the EVE forums, that only 10-15% of the player-base are still using Windows XP and Vista.
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