Status: Guest OSes
The following table gives an overview of how the various Guest operating systems are supported under VirtualBox.
| Guest OS name | Works | Stability | Performance | Remarks
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| Darwin | no | -- | -- | Currently not working.
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| FreeBSD | yes | good | good | FreeBSD 6.2 is known to cause problems. No Guest Additions available yet.
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| Linux 2.4 | yes | good | very good |
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| 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.
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| OpenBSD | yes | good | good | Apparently only version 3.8 works well, version 3.9 and 4.0 are reported to cause problems. These problems have been fixed; OpenBSD 3.7, 3.8, 3.9 and 4.0 will be fully supported in the next release (VirtualBox 1.3.4). No Guest Additions available yet.
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| OpenSolaris | no | -- | -- | Currently there are problems with hard disk access and networking. The hard disk problems have been fixed for the next release (VirtualBox 1.3.4).
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| 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.
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| ReactOS | no | -- | -- | Currently not working.
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| Windows NT 4.0 | yes | good | very good | Some issues with old service packs. Recommended to install service pack 6a.
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| Windows 2000 | yes | very good | very good |
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| Windows XP | yes | very good | very good |
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| Windows Server 2003 | yes | very good | very good |
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| 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.
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