Sun Microsystems 3.0.0 user manual Supported host operating systems, Windows hosts

1Introduction

1.4Supported host operating systems

Currently, VirtualBox is available for the following host operating systems:

•Windows hosts:

–Windows XP, all service packs (32-bit)

–Windows Server 2003 (32-bit)

–Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit2).

–Windows Server 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit)

–Windows 7 beta (32-bit and 64-bit)

•Apple Mac OS X hosts: Intel hardware is required, all versions of Mac OS X supported; please see chapter 13, Known limitations, page 213 also.3

•Linux hosts (32-bit and 64-bit4). Among others, this includes:

–Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (“sarge”), 4.0 (“etch”) and 5.0 (“lenny”)

–Fedora Core 4 to 11

–Gentoo Linux

–Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5

–SUSE Linux 9 and 10, openSUSE 10.3, 11.0 and 11.1

–Ubuntu 6.06 (“Dapper Drake”), 6.10 (“Edgy Eft”), 7.04 (“Feisty Fawn”), 7.10 (“Gutsy Gibbon”), 8.04 (“Hardy Heron”), 8.10 (“Intrepid Ibex”), 9.04 (“Jaunty Jackalope”).

–Mandriva 2007.1, 2008.0 and 2009.1

It should be possible to use VirtualBox on most systems based on Linux kernel

2.6using either the VirtualBox installer or by doing a manual installation; see chapter 2.3, Installing on Linux hosts, page 21.

Note that starting with VirtualBox 2.1, Linux 2.4-based host operating systems are no longer supported.

•Solaris hosts (32-bit and 64-bit5) are supported with the restrictions listed in chapter 13, Known limitations, page 213:

–OpenSolaris (2008.05 and higher, “Nevada” build 86 and higher)

–Solaris 10 (u4 and higher)

2Support for 64-bit Windows was added with VirtualBox 1.5.

3Preliminary Mac support (beta stage) was added with VirtualBox 1.4, full support with 1.6.

4Support for 64-bit Linux was added with VirtualBox 1.4. 5Support for OpenSolaris was added with VirtualBox 1.6.

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