1First steps

10.6 (Snow Leopard, 32-bit and 64-bit)

Intel hardware is required; please see chapter 13, Known limitations, page 237 also.

Linux hosts (32-bit and 64-bit3). 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 34.

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

Solaris hosts (32-bit and 64-bit4) are supported with the restrictions listed in chapter 13, Known limitations, page 237:

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

Solaris 10 (u5 and higher)

1.5 Installing and starting VirtualBox

VirtualBox comes in many different packages, and installation depends on your host platform. If you have installed software before, installation should be straightforward as on each host platform, VirtualBox uses the installation method that is most common and easy to use. If you run into trouble or have special requirements, please refer to chapter 2, Installation details, page 32 for details about the various installation methods.

After installation, you can start VirtualBox as follows:

On a Windows host, in the standard “Programs” menu, click on the item in the “VirtualBox” group. On Vista or Windows 7, you can also type “VirtualBox” in the search box of the “Start” menu.

3Support for 64-bit Linux was added with VirtualBox 1.4.

4Support for OpenSolaris was added with VirtualBox 1.6.

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