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 the VirtualBox team.
(Page last updated 2009-06-12)
| Guest OS |
Status |
Remarks |
| Windows family |
| Windows 7 RC |
Works, with Additions |
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| Windows Vista |
Works, with Additions |
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| Windows 2000 |
Works, with Additions |
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| Windows XP |
Works, with Additions |
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| 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. Kernels 2.6.18 to 2.6.18.2 contain a race condition (which was unfortunately backported to the Ubuntu 6.06 Server and 6.10 kernels) that can cause boot crashes in virtual machines. |
| Ubuntu 5.10/6.06 Desktop/7.04/7.10/8.04/8.10/9.04 |
Work, with Additions |
|
| Ubuntu 6.06 Server/6.10 |
Works partially, with Additions |
The Ubuntu 6.06 Server and 6.10 kernels suffer from the race condition mentioned above. |
| Debian 3.1/4.0/5.0 |
Work, with Additions |
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| SUSE 9/10.0 |
Work, with Additions |
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| openSUSE 10.2 |
Works partially, with Additions |
The openSUSE 10.2 kernel suffers from the race condition mentioned above. |
| openSUSE 10.3 |
Works, with Additions |
|
| openSUSE 11.0/11.1 |
Work, with Additions |
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| Mandriva 2008 |
Works, with Additions |
Mandriva 2008 has the guest additions for VirtualBox 1.5 installed by default. These should be updated after installation. |
| Mandriva 2009.0/2009.1 |
Work, with Additions |
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| Mandrake 10.1 |
Works, with Additions |
|
| *Mandrake 9.2 |
Works, without Additions |
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| Fedora Core 1/4/5/6 |
Work, with Additions |
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| Fedora 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 |
Work, with Additions |
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| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and 5 |
Work, with Additions |
|
| * Red Hat Linux 9 |
Works, with Additions |
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| * Red Hat Linux 7 |
Works, without Additions |
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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 |
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| * Xandros 3 |
Works, no Additions available |
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| Xandros 4 |
Works, with Additions |
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| ArchLinux |
Works, with Additions |
Installation has to be booted with the ide-legacy option. |
| Solaris |
| Solaris 10 5.08 and later |
Works, Guest Additions available |
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| OpenSolaris 2008.05 and later |
Works, Guest Additions available |
|
| Unices |
| FreeBSD |
Works partially |
FreeBSD 6.2 is known to cause problems. |
| * PC-BSD 1.3 |
Doesn't work |
|
| OpenBSD |
Works, no Additions available |
Requires VT-x or AMD-V hardware virtualization support. |
| Others |
| DOS |
Works, no Additions available |
Only limited testing as part of system installation processes has been performed. |
| OS/2 |
Works, with Additions |
Requires VT-x or AMD-V hardware virtualization support. Only MCP2 is reported to work reliably so far. |
| QNX Neutrino 6.32 |
Doesn't work |
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| * Novell Netware 6.5 |
Doesn't work |
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| * BeOS 5 |
Doesn't work |
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| Syllable |
Works, no Additions available |
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| * Visopsys |
Doesn't work |
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| ReactOS |
Works, no Additions available |
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| * SkyOS |
Works, no Additions available |
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