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 InnoTek. (Page last updated 2007-03-05)

Guest OS	Status	Remarks
Windows family
Windows Vista	Works, with Additions	Need to install networking driver in guest manually; see User FAQ
Windows 2000	Works, with Additions
Windows XP	Works, with Additions
Windows Server 2003	Work, with Additions
Windows NT	Works, with Additions	Some issues with old service packs. Recommended to install service pack 6a.
* Windows 98	Works, no Additions available
Linux family
Generally, all 2.4 and 2.6 kernels work; however, we recommend 2.6.13 or above for better performance. 2.6.18 (and some 2.6.17) contain a race condition that may cause boot crashes in VirtualBox.
Ubuntu 5.10/6.06	Works, with Additions
Debian 3.1	Works, with Additions
SUSE 9/10.0/10.2	Works, with Additions
Mandrake 10.1	Works, with Additions
Fedora Core 1/4/5/6	Work, with Additions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4	Work, with Additions
* Red Hat Linux 9	Works, with Additions
*Red Hat Linux 7	Doesn't work
* Linspire 4.5	Works, with Additions
* Slackware 10.1	Works, with Additions
* Conectiva 10	Works, with Additions
* Xandros 3	Doesn't work
Unices
FreeBSD	Works partially	FreeBSD 6.2 is known to cause problems.
* PC-BSD 1.3	Doesn't work
OpenBSD	Works, no Additions available
Others
DOS	Works	Only limited testing as part of system installation processes has been performed.
OS/2	Works partially	Requires VT-x hardware virtualization support. Only MCP2 is reported to work reliably so far.
* Novell Netware 6.5	Doesn't work
* BeOS 5	Doesn't work
* Syllable	Doesn't work
* Visopsys	Doesn't work
* ReactOS	Doesn't work
* Solaris 10 (2005)	Doesn't work