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 User FAQ
Windows 2000	Works, with Additions
Windows XP	Works, 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. * 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. Ubuntu 5.10/6.06 Works, with Additions Debian 3.1 Works, with Additions SUSE 9/10.0/10.2 Works, with Additions Mandrake 10.1 Works, with Additions Fedora Core 1/4/5/6 Work, with Additions Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 Work, 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 DOS Works Only limited testing as part of system installation processes has been performed. OS/2 Works partially Requires VT-x hardware virtualization support. Only MCP2 is reported to work reliably so far. * 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