Currently, Oracle VM VirtualBox runs on the following host OSes:

• Windows hosts (64-bit):

  • Windows 8.1

  • Windows 10

  • Windows 11 21H2

  • Windows Server 2012

  • Windows Server 2012 R2

  • Windows Server 2016

  • Windows Server 2019

  • Windows Server 2022

• macOS hosts (64-bit):

  • 10.15 (Catalina)

  • 11 (Big Sur)

  • 12 (Monterey)

  Intel hardware is required. See also Known Limitations.

  An installer package is available for macOS/Arm64, for systems using an Apple silicon CPU. With this package, you can run some guest operating systems for Intel x86/x64 CPUs in an emulation.

  The macOS/Arm64 installer package for Apple silicon platform is available as a Developer Preview release. This package represents a work in progress project and the performance is very modest.

  Developer Preview is a public release for developers, which provides early access to unsupported software release and features.

• Linux hosts (64-bit). Includes the following:

  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS and 22.04

  • Debian GNU/Linux 10 ("Buster") and 11 ("Bullseye")

  • Oracle Linux 7, 8 and 9

  • CentOS/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, 8 and 9

  • Fedora 35 and 36

  • Gentoo Linux

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise server 12 and 15

  • openSUSE Leap 15.3

  It should be possible to use Oracle VM VirtualBox on most systems based on Linux kernel 2.6, 3.x, 4.x or 5.x using either the Oracle VM VirtualBox installer or by doing a manual installation. See . However, the formally tested and supported Linux distributions are those for which we offer a dedicated package.

  Note that Linux 2.4-based host OSes are no longer supported.

• Oracle Solaris hosts (64-bit only). The following versions are supported with the restrictions listed in Known Limitations:

  • Oracle Solaris 11.4

Note that any feature which is marked as experimental is not supported. Feedback and suggestions about such features are welcome.