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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 2009-12-08)
| Guest OS | Status | Remarks |
| Windows family | ||
| Windows 7 | Works, with Additions | |
| Windows Vista | Works, with Additions | |
| Windows 2000 | Works, with Additions | |
| Windows XP | Works, with Additions | |
| Windows Server 2008 (also R2) | Work, 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. Shared folders not implemented. |
| * 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/7.04/7.10/8.04/8.10/9.04/9.10 | 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 3.1/4.0/5.0 | Work, with Additions | |
| SUSE 9/10.0 | Work, with Additions | |
| openSUSE 10.2 | Works partially, with Additions | The openSUSE 10.2 kernel suffers from the race condition mentioned above. |
| openSUSE 10.3 | Works, with Additions | |
| openSUSE 11.0/11.1 | Work, with Additions | |
| Mandriva 2008 | Works, with Additions | Mandriva 2008 has the guest additions for VirtualBox 1.5 installed by default. These should be updated after installation. |
| Mandriva 2009.0/2009.1 | Work, with Additions | |
| Mandrake 10.1 | Works, with Additions | |
| *Mandrake 9.2 | Works, without Additions | |
| Fedora Core 1/4/5/6 | Work, with Additions | |
| Fedora 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 | Work, with Additions | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and 5 | Work, with Additions | |
| * Red Hat Linux 9 | Works, with Additions | |
| * Red Hat Linux 7 | Works, without Additions | |
| * 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. |
| Solaris | ||
| Solaris 10 5.08 and later | Works, Guest Additions available | |
| OpenSolaris 2008.05 and later | Works, Guest Additions available | |
| Unices | ||
| FreeBSD | Works partially | FreeBSD 6.2 is known to cause problems. |
| * PC-BSD 1.3 | Doesn't work | |
| * PC-BSD 7.1.1 | Works, no Additions available | Requires VT-x or AMD-V hardware virtualization support. |
| OpenBSD | Works, no Additions available | Requires VT-x or AMD-V hardware virtualization support. |
| 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 or AMD-V 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 R5 | Doesn't work | |
| Haiku | Works, no Additions available | |
| Syllable | Works, no Additions available | |
| * Visopsys | Doesn't work | |
| ReactOS | Works, no Additions available | |
| * SkyOS | Works, no Additions available | |
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