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[1]).
Apple Mac OS X hosts (Intel hardware only, all versions of Mac OS X supported)[2]
Linux hosts (32-bit and 64-bit[3]):
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 ("sarge"), 4.0 ("etch") and 5.0 ("lenny")
Fedora Core 4 to 9
Gentoo Linux
Redhat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and 5
SUSE Linux 9 and 10, openSUSE 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 and 11
Ubuntu 6.06 ("Dapper Drake"), 6.10 ("Edgy Eft"), 7.04 ("Feisty Fawn"), 7.10 ("Gutsy Gibbon"), 8.04 ("Hardy Heron")
Mandriva 2007.1 and 2008.0
It should be possible to use VirtualBox on most systems based on Linux kernel 2.4 or 2.6 using either the VirtualBox installer or by doing a manual installation; see Sectioná2.3, “Installing on Linux hosts”.
Solaris hosts (32-bit and 64-bit[4]):
OpenSolaris (2008.05 and higher, "Nevada" build 86 and higher)
Solaris 10 (u4 and higher, experimental support)