Status: Guest OSes

The following table gives an overview of how well VirtualBox operating systems work in its virtual machines. Rows marked with an asterisk (*) contain information reported by users and not verified by the VirtualBox team. (Page last updated 2020年02月24日)

This table reflects operating systems which should work with the most recent version of VirtualBox but without any guarantee. To get a list of commercially supported guest operating systems of VirtualBox, please follow this link.

Guest OS Status Remarks

Windows family

Windows 10 build 10586 (32/64-bit) Works, with Additions Requires AMD-V or VT-x.

Windows 10 build 10240 (32/64-bit) Works, with Additions Requires AMD-V or VT-x.

Windows 8 (32/64-bit) Works, with Additions Requires AMD-V or VT-x.

Windows 7 (32/64-bit) Works, with Additions

Windows Vista (32/64-bit) Works, with Additions

Windows 2000 Works, with Additions

Windows XP (32/64-bit) Works, with Additions

Windows Server 2012 (also R2) Works, with Additions

Windows Server 2008 (32/64-bit, also R2) Works, with Additions

Windows Server 2003 (32/64-bit) Works, with Additions

Windows NT Works, with Additions Some issues with old service packs. Recommended to install service pack 6a. Shared folders not implemented.

* Windows 98/98 SE/ME Works, no Additions available Slow because VirtualBox is not optimized for it. Install a 3rd party VESA graphics driver or disable hardware virtualization.

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 - 12.10 Works, 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 6.0 - 8.0 Works, with Additions

Debian 5.0 Works, with Additions

Debian 4.0 (32-bit) Works, with Additions

Debian 3.1 Works, with Additions Requires IDE Controller.

SUSE 9/10.0 Works, with Additions Disable VT-x

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 11.0-11.3 Works, with Additions

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 Works, with Additions

Mandrake 10.1 Works, with Additions

*Mandrake 9.2 Works, without Additions

Fedora Core 1/4/5/6 Works, with Additions

Fedora 7-23 Works, with Additions Fedora 7 and 9 have problems with Additions. We recommend you upgrade before installing Guest Additions.

Oracle Linux 8 Works, with Additions

Oracle Linux 7 Works, with Additions

Oracle Linux 6 Works, with Additions

Oracle Linux 5 Works, with Additions 5.3+ Recommended if using VirtIO.

Oracle Linux 4 Works, with Additions Requires IDE Controller, 4.8+ Recommended if using VirtIO.

RHEL7 Works, with Additions

RHEL6 Works, with Additions

RHEL5, CentOS 5 (32/64-bit) Works, with Additions 5.3+ Recommended if using VirtIO.

RHEL4, CentOS 4 (32/64-bit) Works, with Additions Requires IDE Controller. 4.8+ Recommended if using VirtIO.

RHEL3, OEL3, CentOS 3 (32/64-bit) Works, with Additions Requires IDE Controller. Sound broken.

* Red Hat Linux 9 Works, without Additions

* Red Hat Linux 7 Works, partially without Additions Requires VT-x, and text-mode only.

* Xandros 4 Works, with Additions

ArchLinux Works, with Additions Installation has to be booted with the ide-legacy option.

Solaris

Solaris 10 5.08 and later Works, with Guest Additions

Solaris 11 Works, with Guest Additions

OpenSolaris 2008.05 and later Works, with Guest Additions

Older Solaris x86 releases Works, no Guest Additions

Mac OS X

Mac OS X Server (Leopard, Snow Leopard) Works without Additions See Manual for more information.

Unices

FreeBSD Works, with Guest Additions FreeBSD 6.2 is known to cause problems. Requires VT-x. Requires FreeBSD Guest Additions, available as a port emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions.

* PC-BSD 1.3 Doesn't work

* PC-BSD 7.1.1 Works, no Additions available Requires VT-x or AMD-V hardware virtualization support.

* PC-BSD 8.1 Works, no Additions available Requires VT-x or AMD-V hardware virtualization support.

* PC-BSD >= 9.0 Works, with Guest Additiona Requires VT-x or AMD-V hardware virtualization support. Requires FreeBSD Guest Additions, available as a port emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions.

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 2.0 and later (32-bit) Works, with Additions Requires VT-x or AMD-V hardware virtualization support.

OS/2 1.x (16-bit) Works, no Additions available

QNX 4.25 Works, no Additions available

* QNX Neutrino 6.32 Works, no Additions available Requires VT-x or AMD-V hardware virtualization support.

Novell Netware 6.5 Works, no Additions available Single VCPU only.

BeOS R5 Works, no Additions available Minor issues. PIIX3 IDE needs to be used for good performance.

Haiku Works, no Additions available

Syllable Works, no Additions available

* Visopsys Works, no Additions available Note there is a bug in the Visopsys installer, see forum post.

ReactOS Works, no Additions available

* SkyOS Works, no Additions available

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