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Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of Guest_OSes


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Mar 5, 2007 8:01:23 PM (17 years ago)
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  • Guest_OSes

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    11= Status: Guest OSes =
    22
    3 The following table gives an overview of how the various Guest operating systems are supported under !VirtualBox.
     3The following table gives an overview of how well !VirtualBox supports various operating systems in its virtual machines.
    44
    5 || '''Guest OS name''' || '''Works''' || '''Stability''' || '''Performance''' || '''Remarks''' ||
     5{{{
     6#!html
     7<table width="100%">
     8<tr>
     9  <td><b>Guest OS</b></td>
     10  <td><b>Works</b></td>
     11  <td><b>Remarks</b></td>
     12</tr>
    613
    7 || Darwin || no || -- || -- || Currently not working. ||
     14<tr><td colspan=3><b>Windows family</b></td></tr>
    815
    9 || || || || || ||
     16<tr style="background-color: #ffff00">
     17  <td>Windows 98</td>
     18  <td>Works, no Additions available</td>
     19  <td> </td>
     20</tr>
     21<tr style="background-color: #ffff00">
     22  <td>Windows NT</b></td>
     23  <td>Works, no Additions available</td>
     24  <td>Some issues with old service packs. Recommended to install service pack 6a.</td>
     25</tr>
     26<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
     27  <td>Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003</td>
     28  <td>Work, with Additions</td>
     29  <td> </td>
     30</tr>
     31<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
     32  <td>Windows Vista</td>
     33  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
     34  <td>Need to install networking driver in guest manually; see FAQ</td>
     35</tr>
    1036
    11 || FreeBSD || yes || good || good || FreeBSD 6.2 is known to cause problems. No Guest Additions available yet. ||
     37<tr><td colspan=3><b>Linux family</b></td></tr>
    1238
    13 || || || || || ||
     39<tr><td colspan=3>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.</td></tr>
    1440
    15 || Linux 2.4 || yes || good || very good || ||
     41<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
     42  <td>SUSE 10.0/10.2</td>
     43  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
     44  <td> </td>
     45</tr>
     46<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
     47  <td>Mandrake 10.1</td>
     48  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
     49  <td> </td>
     50</tr>
     51<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
     52  <td>Debian 3.1</td>
     53  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
     54  <td> </td>
     55</tr>
     56<tr style="background-color: #ff0000">
     57  <td>Red Hat Linux 7</td>
     58  <td>Doesn't work</td>
     59  <td> </td>
     60</tr>
     61<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
     62  <td>Red Hat Linux 9</td>
     63  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
     64  <td> </td>
     65</tr>
     66<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
     67  <td>Fedora Core 1</td>
     68  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
     69  <td> </td>
     70</tr>
     71<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
     72  <td>Linspire 4.5</td>
     73  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
     74  <td> </td>
     75</tr>
     76<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
     77  <td>Slackware 10.1</td>
     78  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
     79  <td> </td>
     80</tr>
     81<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
     82  <td>Conectiva 10</td>
     83  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
     84  <td> </td>
     85</tr>
     86<tr style="background-color: #ff0000">
     87  <td>Xandros 3</td>
     88  <td>Doesn't work</td>
     89  <td> </td>
     90</tr>
    1691
    17 || Linux 2.6 || yes || good || very good || Kernel 2.6.13 or above recommended for better performance. Kernel 2.6.18 (and some 2.6.17) contain a race condition that may cause boot crashes in !VirtualBox. ||
     92<tr><td colspan=3><b>Unices</b></td></tr>
    1893
    19 || || || || || ||
    20 
    21 || OpenBSD || yes || good || good || OpenBSD 4.0 might not work well, a fix will be in the next version of !VirtualBox. No Guest Additions available yet. ||
    22 
    23 || || || || || ||
    24 
    25 || !OpenSolaris || no || -- || -- || Currently there are problems with networking. ||
    26 
    27 || || || || || ||
    28 
    29 || OS/2 Warp || yes || good || very good || Requires VT-x hardware virtualization support. Only MCP2 is reported to work reliably so far. No Guest Additions available yet. ||
    30 
    31 || || || || || ||
    32 
    33 || ReactOS || no || -- || -- || Currently not working. ||
    34 
    35 || || || || || ||
    36 
    37 || Windows NT 4.0 || yes || good || very good || Some issues with old service packs. Recommended to install service pack 6a. ||
    38 
    39 || Windows 2000 || yes || very good || very good || ||
    40 
    41 || Windows XP || yes || very good || very good || ||
    42 
    43 || Windows Server 2003 || yes || very good || very good || ||
    44 
    45 || Windows Vista || yes || good || good || Vista doesn't include a suitable network driver. You have to download an NDIS5 driver from the AMD  web site. ||
     94<!--works partially: -->
     95<tr style="background-color: #ff8000">
     96  <td>FreeBSD</td>
     97  <td>Works partially</td>
     98  <td>   FreeBSD 6.2 is known to cause problems. </td>
     99</tr>
     100<tr style="background-color: #ff0000">
     101  <td>PC-BSD 1.3</td>
     102  <td>Doesn't work</td>
     103  <td> </td>
     104</tr>
     105<tr style="background-color: #ffff00">
     106  <td>OpenBSD</td>
     107  <td>Works, no Additions available</td>
     108  <td> </td>
     109</tr>
    46110
    47111
     112<tr><td colspan=3><b>Others</b></td></tr>
     113
     114<tr style="background-color: #ff8000">
     115  <td>OS/2</td>
     116  <td>Works partially</td>
     117  <td>Requires VT-x hardware virtualization support. Only MCP2 is reported to work reliably so far.</td>
     118</tr>
     119<tr style="background-color: #ff8000">
     120  <td>DOS</td>
     121  <td>Works partially</td>
     122  <td> </td>
     123</tr>
     124<tr style="background-color: #ff0000">
     125  <td>Novell Netware 6.5</td>
     126  <td>Doesn't work</td>
     127  <td> </td>
     128</tr>
     129<tr style="background-color: #ff0000">
     130  <td>BeOS 5</td>
     131  <td>Doesn't work</td>
     132  <td> </td>
     133</tr>
     134<tr style="background-color: #ff0000">
     135  <td>Syllable</td>
     136  <td>Doesn't work</td>
     137  <td> </td>
     138</tr>
     139<tr style="background-color: #ff0000">
     140  <td>Visopsys</td>
     141  <td>Doesn't work</td>
     142  <td> </td>
     143</tr>
     144<tr style="background-color: #ff0000">
     145  <td>ReactOS</td>
     146  <td>Doesn't work</td>
     147  <td> </td>
     148</tr>
     149<tr style="background-color: #ff0000">
     150  <td>Solaris 10 (2005)</td>
     151  <td>Doesn't work</td>
     152  <td> </td>
     153</tr>
     154
     155
     156
     157</table>
     158}}}
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