Oracle JDK 8 and JRE 8 Certified System Configurations

Contents

• Operating Systems
• Browsers

Refer to the Supported Locales document for a list of supported locales and supported writing systems for each platform.

For Java Mission Control Certified System Configurations refer to the:

- System Requirements and Supported Platforms for Java Mission Control 5.4
- System Requirements and Supported Platforms for Java Mission Control 5.3
- System Requirements and Supported Platforms for Java Mission Control 5.2

Other System Configurations

• JDK 7
• JDK 6

Operating Systems

Solaris

Windows Client

Windows Server

Linux

Linux on ARM

OS X

• Support for SPARC T7 requires JDK 1.8.0_60 or higher.
• Oracle Linux covers both kernels: Red Hat Compatible and Unbreakable.
• On 64-bit operating systems (OSs), both 32-bit and 64-bit Java virtual machines (JVMs) are certified, except where noted.
• All default desktop managers are certified, except where noted.
• For Linux platforms, gtk2 2.18+ is required for supporting JavaFX.

Virtualization

All the above operating systems are also certified when running as virtual guest on any of the following hypervisors as long as the operating system is supported by that hypervisor.

• Oracle VM
• VirtualBox 3.x, 4.x
• Solaris Containers
• Solaris LDOMs
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012

VMware is not a certified hypervisor.

Hardware rendering is not supported in guest systems on Oracle VM, VirtualBox and Hyper-V Server 2012.

Browsers

• Oracle does not certify browser versions that are no longer supported by the browser's provider.

JavaFX Graphics Support

For JavaFX applications to take advantage of the new hardware acceleration pipeline provided by JavaFX, your system must feature one of the graphics cards below. Otherwise JavaFX will default to the Java2D software pipeline.

• To avoid rendering issues on Windows platforms, upgrade the ATI driver to Catalyst 11.09 or later.
• JavaFX supports graphic hardware acceleration on any certified OS X system.
• On Linux platforms, graphic hardware acceleration is only supported for Nvidia cards (proprietary drivers only).

JavaFX Media

• VP6 video support does not require any third party modules.
• On Linux platforms, installing libavformat automatically causes libavcodec to be installed.