= Status: Guest OSes =

The following table gives an overview of how well !VirtualBox supports various operating systems in its virtual machines.

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  <td><b>Guest OS</b></td>
  <td><b>Works</b></td>
  <td><b>Remarks</b></td>
</tr>

<tr><td colspan=3><b>Windows family</b></td></tr>

<tr style="background-color: #ffff00">
  <td>Windows 98</td>
  <td>Works, no Additions available</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ffff00">
  <td>Windows NT</b></td>
  <td>Works, no Additions available</td>
  <td>Some issues with old service packs. Recommended to install service pack 6a.</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003</td>
  <td>Work, with Additions</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>Windows Vista</td>
  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
  <td>Need to install networking driver in guest manually; see FAQ</td>
</tr>

<tr><td colspan=3><b>Linux family</b></td></tr>

<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>

<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>SUSE 10.0/10.2</td>
  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>Mandrake 10.1</td>
  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>Debian 3.1</td>
  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ff0000">
  <td>Red Hat Linux 7</td>
  <td>Doesn't work</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>Red Hat Linux 9</td>
  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>Fedora Core 1</td>
  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>Linspire 4.5</td>
  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>Slackware 10.1</td>
  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #00ff00">
  <td>Conectiva 10</td>
  <td>Works, with Additions</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ff0000">
  <td>Xandros 3</td>
  <td>Doesn't work</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>

<tr><td colspan=3><b>Unices</b></td></tr>

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<tr style="background-color: #ff8000">
  <td>FreeBSD</td>
  <td>Works partially</td>
  <td> 	 FreeBSD 6.2 is known to cause problems. </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ff0000">
  <td>PC-BSD 1.3</td>
  <td>Doesn't work</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ffff00">
  <td>OpenBSD</td>
  <td>Works, no Additions available</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>


<tr><td colspan=3><b>Others</b></td></tr>

<tr style="background-color: #ff8000">
  <td>OS/2</td>
  <td>Works partially</td>
  <td>Requires VT-x hardware virtualization support. Only MCP2 is reported to work reliably so far.</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ff8000">
  <td>DOS</td>
  <td>Works partially</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ff0000">
  <td>Novell Netware 6.5</td>
  <td>Doesn't work</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ff0000">
  <td>BeOS 5</td>
  <td>Doesn't work</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ff0000">
  <td>Syllable</td>
  <td>Doesn't work</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ff0000">
  <td>Visopsys</td>
  <td>Doesn't work</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ff0000">
  <td>ReactOS</td>
  <td>Doesn't work</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: #ff0000">
  <td>Solaris 10 (2005)</td>
  <td>Doesn't work</td>
  <td> </td>
</tr>



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