= 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 2007-09-01) {{{ #!html
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. 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 Desktop/7.10 Desktop | Work, with Additions | ||
Ubuntu 7.04 Server/7.10 Server | Don't work | Ubuntu 7.04 Server and 7.10 Server enable PAE without checking for support, and VirtualBox currently does not support PAE. | |
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 | Works, with Additions | ||
SUSE 9/10.0 | Work, with Additions | ||
SUSE 10.2 | Works partially, with Additions | The SUSE 10.2 kernel suffers from the race condition mentioned above. | |
Mandriva 2008 | Works, with Additions | Mandriva 2008 has the guest additions for VirtualBox 1.5 installed by default. These should be updated after installation. | |
Mandrake 10.1 | Works, with Additions | ||
*Mandrake 9.2 | Works, without Additions | ||
Fedora Core 1/4/5/6 | Work, with Additions | ||
Fedora 7 | Works, with Additions | ||
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and 5 | 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 | Works, no Additions available | ||
Xandros 4 | Works, with Additions | ||
ArchLinux | Works, with Additions | Installation has to be booted with the ide-legacy option. |
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Unices | |||
FreeBSD | Works partially | FreeBSD 6.2 is known to cause problems. | |
* PC-BSD 1.3 | Doesn't work | ||
OpenBSD | Works, no Additions available | ||
Solaris 10 | Works, no Additions available | Not all releases work reliably. | |
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 hardware virtualization support. Only MCP2 is reported to work reliably so far. | |
QNX Neutrino 6.32 | Doesn't work | ||
* Novell Netware 6.5 | Doesn't work | ||
* BeOS 5 | Doesn't work | ||
Syllable | Works, no Additions available | ||
* Visopsys | Doesn't work | ||
ReactOS | Works, no Additions available | ||
* SkyOS | Works, no Additions available |