Cosmos supports running on any Intel x86 environment. However for debugging and ease of use, many virtual and physical setups have integrated support. If you do not see your environment, this does not mean Cosmos will not work. You can simply fall back to ISO which should work with any environment.

### ISO

The ISO option creates an ISO image of the Cosmos output. This ISO file can be mounted and booted by most virtualization technologies. In addition a physical optical disk can be burned and used to boot physical hardware.

### VMWare Workstation

WMWare Workstation and VMWare Player are the preferred testing environments for Cosmos. This is because they are stable, reliable, and easily controlled by the Cosmos Visual Studio integration package. This second point provides for a seemless development and debugging process.

VMWare Workstation is not free, however VMWare Player is. VMWare Player for the typical Cosmos developer provides more than enough functionality.

### VMWare Player

VMWare Player can be downloaded here.

### VMWare Server

### QEMU

Bochs

PXE

Virtual PC

Hyper-V