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1 Introduction
1.4 Supported 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-bit
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).
– 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.
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• Linux hosts (32-bit and 64-bit
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). 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
2.6 using 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-bit
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) 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)
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Support for 64-bit Windows was added with VirtualBox 1.5.
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Preliminary Mac support (beta stage) was added with VirtualBox 1.4, full support with 1.6.
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Support for 64-bit Linux was added with VirtualBox 1.4.
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Support for OpenSolaris was added with VirtualBox 1.6.
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