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Status: Guest OSes
The following table gives an overview of how well VirtualBox supports various operating systems in its virtual machines.
| Guest OS | Status | Remarks |
| Windows family | ||
| Windows Vista | Works, with Additions | Need to install networking driver in guest manually; see FAQ |
| Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 | Work, with Additions | |
| Windows NT | Works, no Additions available | 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. | ||
| SUSE 10.0/10.2 | Works, with Additions | |
| Mandrake 10.1 | Works, with Additions | |
| Debian 3.1 | Works, with Additions | |
| Red Hat Linux 7 | Doesn't work | |
| Red Hat Linux 9 | Works, with Additions | |
| Fedora Core 1 | Works, with Additions | |
| Linspire 4.5 | Works, with Additions | |
| Slackware 10.1 | Works, with Additions | |
| Conectiva 10 | Works, with Additions | |
| Xandros 3 | Doesn't work | |
| Unices | ||
| FreeBSD | Works partially | FreeBSD 6.2 is known to cause problems. |
| PC-BSD 1.3 | Doesn't work | |
| OpenBSD | Works, no Additions available | |
| Others | ||
| OS/2 | Works partially | Requires VT-x hardware virtualization support. Only MCP2 is reported to work reliably so far. |
| DOS | Works partially | |
| Novell Netware 6.5 | Doesn't work | |
| BeOS 5 | Doesn't work | |
| Syllable | Doesn't work | |
| Visopsys | Doesn't work | |
| ReactOS | Doesn't work | |
| Solaris 10 (2005) | Doesn't work | |
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