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 |
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Windows XP |
Works, with Additions |
|
Windows Server 2003 |
Work, with Additions |
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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 |
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SUSE 9/10.0/10.2 |
Works, with Additions |
|
Mandrake 10.1 |
Works, with Additions |
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Fedora Core 1/4/5/6 |
Work, with Additions |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 |
Work, with Additions |
|
* Red Hat Linux 9 |
Works, with Additions |
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*Red Hat Linux 7 |
Doesn't work |
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* Linspire 4.5 |
Works, with Additions |
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* Slackware 10.1 |
Works, with Additions |
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* Conectiva 10 |
Works, with Additions |
|
* Xandros 3 |
Doesn't work |
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Unices |
FreeBSD |
Works partially |
FreeBSD 6.2 is known to cause problems. |
* PC-BSD 1.3 |
Doesn't work |
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OpenBSD |
Works, no Additions available |
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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 |
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* BeOS 5 |
Doesn't work |
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* Syllable |
Doesn't work |
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* Visopsys |
Doesn't work |
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* ReactOS |
Doesn't work |
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* Solaris 10 (2005) |
Doesn't work |
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