

PIIX3 IDE needs to be used for good performance. Only limited testing as part of system installation processes has been performed. Requires FreeBSD Guest Additions, available as a port emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions.

Requires VT-x or AMD-V hardware virtualization support. Installation has to be booted with the ide-legacy option.įreeBSD 6.2 is known to cause problems. Requires IDE Controller, 4.8+ Recommended if using VirtIO. We recommend you upgrade before installing Guest Additions. These should be updated after installation.įedora 7 and 9 have problems with Additions. Mandriva 2008 has the guest additions for VirtualBox 1.5 installed by default. The openSUSE 10.2 kernel suffers from the race condition mentioned above. The Ubuntu 6.06 Server and 6.10 kernels suffer from the race condition mentioned above. 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. Generally, all 2.4 and 2.6+ kernels work however, we recommend 2.6.13 or above for better performance. Install a 3rd party VESA graphics driver or disable hardware virtualization. Slow because VirtualBox is not optimized for it. To get a list of commercially supported guest operating systems of VirtualBox, please follow this link. This table reflects operating systems which should work with the most recent version of VirtualBox but without any guarantee. Rows marked with an asterisk (*) contain information reported by users and not verified by the VirtualBox team. So with VirtualBox you get the best of both worlds - it's free, and it allows you to run both Windows and macOS simultaneously so you can switch between them as required without having to reboot.The following table gives an overview of how well VirtualBox operating systems work in its virtual machines. And while Bootcamp is also a free option, it doesn't let you run macOS and Windows simultaneously (you have to reboot the machine every time you want to switch to the other operating system). While there are other options available (such as Parallels and VMware Fusion), VirtualBox is free. To run Windows on a Mac, you need to use virtualization software such as VirtualBox. Here are the main steps involved in installing Windows on a Mac: This enables you to run Windows-only applications on your Mac. By using VirtualBox, you can install Windows on your Mac. VirtualBox is free software that allows you to install different operating systems on your machine. Here I explain how to install Windows on a Mac using the (free) virtualization software, VirtualBox.
