= 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''' ||

|| 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 || ||

|| 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. ||

|| Windows 2000 || yes || very good || very good || ||

|| Windows XP || yes || very good || very good || ||

|| Windows Server 2003 || yes || very good || very good || ||

|| 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. ||