= 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 2012-06-18)

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  <td style="background: white;"><b>Guest OS</b></td>
  <td style="background: white;"><b>Status</b></td>
  <td style="background: white;"><b>Remarks</b></td>
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<tr><td colspan=4><b>Windows family</b></td></tr>

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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_yellow.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">Windows 8 (32/64-bit)</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, Additions incomplete/have issues</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">Windows 7 (32/64-bit)</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">Windows Vista (32/64-bit)</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">Windows 2000</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">Windows XP (32/64-bit)</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">Windows Server 2008 (32/64-bit, also R2)</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">Windows Server 2003 (32/64-bit)</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">Windows NT</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Some issues with old service packs. Recommended to install service pack 6a. Shared folders not implemented.</td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_yellow.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">* Windows 98</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, no Additions available</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Slow because VirtualBox not optimized for it. Disable VT-x.</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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<tr><td colspan=4><b>Linux family</b></td></tr>

<tr><td colspan=4>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.</td></tr>

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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">Ubuntu 5.10 /<br>6.06 Desktop /<br> 7.04 - 12.04</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_yellow.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">Ubuntu 6.06 Server/6.10</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works partially, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> 	 The Ubuntu 6.06 Server and 6.10 kernels suffer from the race condition mentioned above. </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">Debian 6.0</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">Debian 5.0</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">Debian 4.0 (32-bit)</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">Debian 3.1</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Requires IDE Controller. </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">SUSE 9/10.0</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Disable VT-x </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_yellow.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">openSUSE 10.2</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works partially, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> 	 The openSUSE 10.2 kernel suffers from the race condition mentioned above. </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">openSUSE 10.3</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;"></td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">openSUSE 11.0-11.3</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;"></td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">Mandriva 2008</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Mandriva 2008 has the guest additions for VirtualBox 1.5 installed by default.  These should be updated after installation.</td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">Mandriva 2009.0/2009.1</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">Mandrake 10.1</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_yellow.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">*Mandrake 9.2</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, without Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">Fedora Core 1/4/5/6</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">Fedora 7-15</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Fedora 7 and 9 have problems with Additions. We recommend you upgrade before installing Guest Additions.</td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">RHEL6, Oracle Linux 6</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;">5.3+ Recommended if using VirtIO. </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">RHEL5, OEL5, CentOS 5 (32/64-bit)</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;">5.3+ Recommended if using VirtIO. </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">RHEL4, OEL4, CentOS 4 (32/64-bit)</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Requires IDE Controller. 4.8+ Recommended if using VirtIO. </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">RHEL3, OEL3, CentOS 3 (32/64-bit)</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Requires IDE Controller. Sound broken.</td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_yellow.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">* Red Hat Linux 9</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, without Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_yellow.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">* Red Hat Linux 7</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, partially without Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Requires VT-x, and text-mode only. </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">* Xandros 4</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">ArchLinux</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Installation has to be booted with the <code>ide-legacy</code> option.</td>
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<tr><td colspan=4><b>Solaris</b></td></tr>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">Solaris 10 5.08 and later</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Guest Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;"></td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">OpenSolaris 2008.05 and later</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Guest Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;"></td>
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<tr><td colspan=4><b>Mac OS X</b></td></tr>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">Mac OS X Server (Leopard, Snow Leopard)</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works without Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;">See Manual for more information.</td>
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<tr><td colspan=4><b>Unices</b></td></tr>


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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_yellow.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">FreeBSD</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works partially</td>
  <td style="background: white;">FreeBSD 6.2 is known to cause problems. Requires VT-x. </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_red.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">* PC-BSD 1.3</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Doesn't work</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_yellow.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">* PC-BSD 7.1.1</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, no Additions available</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Requires VT-x or AMD-V hardware virtualization support.</td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_yellow.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">* PC-BSD 8.1</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, no Additions available</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Requires VT-x or AMD-V hardware virtualization support.</td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_yellow.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">OpenBSD</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, no Additions available</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Requires VT-x or AMD-V hardware virtualization support.</td>
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<tr><td colspan=4><b>Others</b></td></tr>

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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_yellow.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">DOS</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, no Additions available</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Only limited testing as part of system installation processes has been performed.</td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_green.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">OS/2</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, with Additions</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Requires VT-x or AMD-V hardware virtualization support. Only MCP2 is reported to work reliably so far.</td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_yellow.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">* QNX Neutrino 6.32</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, no Additions available</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Requires VT-x or AMD-V hardware virtualization support.</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_red.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">* Novell Netware 6.5</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Doesn't work</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_red.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">* BeOS R5</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Doesn't work</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_yellow.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">Haiku</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, no Additions available</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_yellow.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">Syllable</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, no Additions available</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_red.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">* Visopsys</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Doesn't work</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_yellow.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">ReactOS</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, no Additions available</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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  <td style="background: white;"><img src="/attachment/wiki/Guest_OSes/status_yellow.png?format=raw" width="10" height="10"></td>
  <td style="background: white;">* SkyOS</td>
  <td style="background: white;">Works, no Additions available</td>
  <td style="background: white;"> </td>
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