• Photon OS Frequently Asked Questions
  • Q. What is Photon OS?
  • Q. How do I get started with Photon OS?
  • Q. Can I upgrade my existing Photon OS 2.0 VMs?
  • Q. What kind of support comes with Photon OS?
  • Q. How can I contribute to Photon OS?
  • Q. How is Photon OS patched?
  • Q. How does Photon OS relate to Project Lightwave?
  • Q. Will VMware continue to support other container host runtime offerings on vSphere?
  • Q. How to report a security vulnerability in Photon OS?
  • Q. Why is VMware creating Photon OS?
  • Does Photon OS support ARM platform?
  • Q. Why is VMware open-sourcing Photon OS?
  • Q. Why can't I SSH in as root?
  • Q. Why is netstat not working?
  • Q. Why do all of my cloned Photon OS instances have the same IP address when using DHCP?
  • Q. Why is the yum command not working in a minimal installation?
  • Q. How to install all build essentials?
  • Q. How to build new package for Photon OS??
  • Q. I just booted into freshly installed Photon OS instance, why isn't "docker ps" working?
  • Q. What is the difference between Minimal and Full installation?
  • Q. What packages are included in Minimal and Full?
  • Q. Why is the ISO over 2GB, when I hear that Photon OS is a minimal container runtime?
  • Q. After updating Kernel rpm, VM fails to boot with Secure Boot?
  • Q. How to mitigate BootHole issue in Photon OS?
  • Q. Migrate existing rpm repository to packages.vmware.com
  • Q. Kernel panic at boot with Kernel panic - not syncing initramfs file already exists ..."?