Simply put though, virtualization is the art of running an operating system inside of another operating system. I’ll explain the basics here, but that article has a much more intricate look at things, and can better inform you about what a virtual machine is, and how it works. While there’s an open source edition available (lacks mostly enterprise features), we’re taking a look at the primary edition which most people will be interested in downloading.įor those not familiar with virtualization, I recommend you check out our primer linked to above. It’s taken me a while, I admit, but we’re kicking things off with a look at Sun’s VirtualBox, one of the few absolutely free solutions out there. Note there is a bug in the Visopsys installer, see forum post.This past summer, I posted a primer to consumer virtualization with the promise of following-up with in-depth looks at the various hypervisors available on the consumer side. 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.
The following table gives an overview of how well VirtualBox operating systems work in its virtual machines.
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