= Status: Guest OSes =

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 2008-05-19)

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  <td><b>Guest OS</b></td>
  <td><b>Status</b></td>
  <td><b>Remarks</b></td>
</tr>

<tr><td colspan=3><b>Windows family</b></td></tr>

<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>Windows Vista</td>
  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
  <td>Need to install networking driver in guest manually; see <a href="/wiki/User_FAQ">User FAQ</a></td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>Windows 2000</td>
  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>Windows XP</td>
  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>Windows Server 2003</td>
  <td>Work, with Additions</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>Windows NT</b></td>
  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
  <td>Some issues with old service packs. Recommended to install service pack 6a.</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ffff00">
  <td>* Windows 98</td>
  <td>Works, no Additions available</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>

<tr><td colspan=3><b>Linux family</b></td></tr>

<tr><td colspan=3>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 style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>Ubuntu 5.10/6.06 Desktop/7.04/7.10/8.04</td>
  <td>Work, with Additions</td>
  <td> </td>
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  <td>Ubuntu 6.06 Server/6.10</td>
  <td>Works partially, with Additions</td>
  <td> 	 The Ubuntu 6.06 Server and 6.10 kernels suffer from the race condition mentioned above. </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>Debian 3.1/4.0</td>
  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>SUSE 9/10.0</td>
  <td>Work, with Additions</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ff8000">
  <td>SUSE 10.2</td>
  <td>Works partially, with Additions</td>
  <td> 	 The SUSE 10.2 kernel suffers from the race condition mentioned above. </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>Mandriva 2008</td>
  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
  <td> 	 Mandriva 2008 has the guest additions for VirtualBox 1.5 installed by default.  These should be updated after installation. </td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>Mandrake 10.1</td>
  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ffff00">
  <td>*Mandrake 9.2</td>
  <td>Works, without Additions</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>Fedora Core 1/4/5/6</td>
  <td>Work, with Additions</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>Fedora 7</td>
  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
  <td></td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and 5</td>
  <td>Work, with Additions</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>* Red Hat Linux 9</td>
  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ff0000">
  <td>* Red Hat Linux 7</td>
  <td>Doesn't work</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>* Linspire 4.5</td>
  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>* Slackware 10.1</td>
  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>* Conectiva 10</td>
  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ffff00">
  <td>* Xandros 3</td>
  <td>Works, no Additions available</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>Xandros 4</td>
  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>ArchLinux</td>
  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
  <td>Installation has to be booted with the <code>ide-legacy</code> option.</td>
</tr>

<tr><td colspan=3><b>Unices</b></td></tr>

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<tr style="background-color: #ff8000">
  <td>FreeBSD</td>
  <td>Works partially</td>
  <td> 	 FreeBSD 6.2 is known to cause problems. </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ff0000">
  <td>* PC-BSD 1.3</td>
  <td>Doesn't work</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ffff00">
  <td>OpenBSD</td>
  <td>Works, no Additions available</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ffff00">
  <td>Solaris 10</td>
  <td>Works, no Additions available</td>
  <td>Not all releases work reliably.</td>
</tr>




<tr><td colspan=3><b>Others</b></td></tr>

<tr style="background-color: #ffff00">
  <td>DOS</td>
  <td>Works, no Additions available</td>
  <td>Only limited testing as part of system installation processes has been performed.</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>OS/2</td>
  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
  <td>Requires VT-x hardware virtualization support. Only MCP2 is reported to work reliably so far.</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ff0000">
  <td>QNX Neutrino 6.32</td>
  <td>Doesn't work</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ff0000">
  <td>* Novell Netware 6.5</td>
  <td>Doesn't work</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ff0000">
  <td>* BeOS 5</td>
  <td>Doesn't work</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ffff00">
  <td>Syllable</td>
  <td>Works, no Additions available</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ff0000">
  <td>* Visopsys</td>
  <td>Doesn't work</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ffff00">
  <td>ReactOS</td>
  <td>Works, no Additions available</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ffff00">
  <td>* SkyOS</td>
  <td>Works, no Additions available</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>

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