Changes between Version 83 and Version 84 of Guest_OSes

Timestamp:

Aug 23, 2013 7:21:48 PM (11 years ago)

Author:

michaln

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Guest_OSes

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 The following table gives an overview of how well !VirtualBox supports various operating systems in its virtual machines. Rows marked with an asterisk (*) contain information reported by users and not verified by the !VirtualBox team.
-(Page last updated 2013-06-27)
+(Page last updated 2013-08-23)
 
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   <td style="background: white;">* Windows 98</td>
   <td style="background: white;">Works, no Additions available</td>
-  <td style="background: white;">Slow because VirtualBox not optimized for it. Disable VT-x.</td>
+  <td style="background: white;">Slow because VirtualBox is not optimized for it. Install a 3rd party VESA graphics driver or disable hardware virtualization.</td>
   <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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 <tr><td colspan=4><b>Linux family</b></td></tr>
 
-<tr><td colspan=4>Generally, all 2.4 and 2.6 kernels work; however, we recommend 2.6.13 or above for better performance.  Kernels 2.6.18 to 2.6.18.2 contain a race condition (which was unfortunately backported to the Ubuntu 6.06 Server and 6.10 kernels) that can cause boot crashes in virtual machines.</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan=4>Generally, all 2.4 and 2.6+ kernels work; however, we recommend 2.6.13 or above for better performance.  Kernels 2.6.18 to 2.6.18.2 contain a race condition (which was unfortunately backported to the Ubuntu 6.06 Server and 6.10 kernels) that can cause boot crashes in virtual machines.</td></tr>
 
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+  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_yellow.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
+  <td style="background: white;">Older Solaris x86 releases</td>
+  <td style="background: white;">Works, no Guest Additions</td>
+  <td style="background: white;"></td>
+</tr>
 <tr><td colspan=4><b>Mac OS X</b></td></tr>
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   <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
-  <td style="background: white;">OS/2</td>
-  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
-  <td style="background: white;">Requires VT-x or AMD-V hardware virtualization support. Only MCP2 is reported to work reliably so far.</td>
+  <td style="background: white;">OS/2 2.0 and later (32-bit)</td>
+  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
+  <td style="background: white;">Requires VT-x or AMD-V hardware virtualization support.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_yellow.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
+  <td style="background: white;">OS/2 1.x (16-bit)</td>
+  <td style="background: white;">Works, no Additions available</td>
+  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_yellow.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
+  <td style="background: white;">QNX 4.25</td>
+  <td style="background: white;">Works, no Additions available</td>
+  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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-  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_red.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
-  <td style="background: white;">* Novell Netware 6.5</td>
-  <td style="background: white;">Doesn't work</td>
-  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_red.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
-  <td style="background: white;">* BeOS R5</td>
-  <td style="background: white;">Doesn't work</td>
-  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
+  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_yellow.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
+  <td style="background: white;">Novell Netware 6.5</td>
+  <td style="background: white;">Works, no Additions available</td>
+  <td style="background: white;">Single VCPU only.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_yellow.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
+  <td style="background: white;">BeOS R5</td>
+  <td style="background: white;">Works, no Additions available</td>
+  <td style="background: white;">Minor issues. PIIX3 IDE needs to be used for good performance.</td>
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