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 2007-09-01)

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. 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.
Ubuntu 5.10/6.06 Desktop/7.04/7.10/8.04	Work, with Additions
Ubuntu 6.06 Server/6.10	Works partially, with Additions	The Ubuntu 6.06 Server and 6.10 kernels suffer from the race condition mentioned above.
Debian 3.1/4.0	Works, with Additions
SUSE 9/10.0	Work, with Additions
SUSE 10.2	Works partially, with Additions	The SUSE 10.2 kernel suffers from the race condition mentioned above.
Mandriva 2008	Works, with Additions	Mandriva 2008 has the guest additions for VirtualBox 1.5 installed by default. These should be updated after installation.
Mandrake 10.1	Works, with Additions
*Mandrake 9.2	Works, without Additions
Fedora Core 1/4/5/6	Work, with Additions
Fedora 7	Works, with Additions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and 5	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	Works, no Additions available
Xandros 4	Works, with Additions
ArchLinux	Works, with Additions	Installation has to be booted with the ide-legacy option.
Unices
FreeBSD	Works partially	FreeBSD 6.2 is known to cause problems.
* PC-BSD 1.3	Doesn't work
OpenBSD	Works, no Additions available
Solaris 10	Works, no Additions available	Not all releases work reliably.
Others
DOS	Works, no Additions available	Only limited testing as part of system installation processes has been performed.
OS/2	Works, with Additions	Requires VT-x hardware virtualization support. Only MCP2 is reported to work reliably so far.
QNX Neutrino 6.32	Doesn't work
* Novell Netware 6.5	Doesn't work
* BeOS 5	Doesn't work
Syllable	Works, no Additions available
* Visopsys	Doesn't work
ReactOS	Works, no Additions available
* SkyOS	Works, no Additions available