| | 1 | = Status: Guest OSes = |
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| | 3 | The following table gives an overview of how the various Guest operating systems are supported under !VirtualBox. |
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| | 5 | || '''Guest OS name''' || '''Works''' || '''Stability''' || '''Performance''' || '''Remarks''' || |
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| | 7 | || Darwin || no || -- || -- || Currently not working. || |
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| | 11 | || FreeBSD || yes || good || good || FreeBSD 6.2 is known to cause problems. No Guest Additions available yet. || |
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| | 15 | || Linux 2.4 || yes || good || very good || || |
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| | 17 | || Linux 2.6 || yes || good || very good || Kernel 2.6.13 or above recommended for better performance. Kernel 2.6.18 (and some 2.6.17) contain a race condition that may cause boot crashes in !VirtualBox. || |
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| | 21 | || OpenBSD || yes || good || good || Apparently only version 3.8 works well, version 3.9 and 4.0 are reported to cause problems. These problems have been fixed; OpenBSD 3.7, 3.8, 3.9 and 4.0 will be fully supported in the next release (!VirtualBox 1.3.4). No Guest Additions available yet. || |
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| | 25 | || !OpenSolaris || no || -- || -- || Currently there are problems with hard disk access and networking. The hard disk problems have been fixed for the next release (!VirtualBox 1.3.4). || |
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| | 29 | || OS/2 Warp || yes || good || very good || Requires VT-x hardware virtualization support. Only MCP2 is reported to work reliably so far. No Guest Additions available yet. || |
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| | 33 | || ReactOS || no || -- || -- || Currently not working. || |
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| | 37 | || Windows NT 4.0 || yes || good || very good || Some issues with old service packs. Recommended to install service pack 6a. || |
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| | 39 | || Windows 2000 || yes || very good || very good || || |
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| | 41 | || Windows XP || yes || very good || very good || || |
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| | 43 | || Windows Server 2003 || yes || very good || very good || || |
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| | 45 | || Windows Vista || yes || good || good || Vista doesn't include a suitable network driver. You have to download an NDIS5 driver from the AMD web site. || |
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