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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 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 [wiki:"User_FAQ" User FAQ] |
Windows 2000 | Work, with Additions | |
Windows XP | Work, with Additions | |
Windows 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. | ||
Debian 3.1 | Works, with Additions | |
* SUSE 10.0/10.2 | Works, with Additions | |
Mandrake 10.1 | Works, with Additions | |
* Fedora Core 1 | Works, 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 | ||
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 |
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