Status: Guest OSes

The following table gives an overview of how well VirtualBox supports various operating systems in its virtual machines.

Guest OS	Status	Remarks
Windows family
Windows Vista	Works, with Additions	Need to install networking driver in guest manually; see FAQ
Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003	Work, with Additions
Windows NT	Works, no Additions available	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.
SUSE 10.0/10.2	Works, with Additions
Mandrake 10.1	Works, with Additions
Debian 3.1	Works, with Additions
Red Hat Linux 7	Doesn't work
Red Hat Linux 9	Works, with Additions
Fedora Core 1	Works, with Additions
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
OS/2	Works partially	Requires VT-x hardware virtualization support. Only MCP2 is reported to work reliably so far.
DOS	Works partially
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