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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="hostossupport">
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| 4 | <title>Available Installation Packages</title>
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| 5 | <!-- 7.1: Arm platforms; require statement on host support -->
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p><ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> runs on the following host Operating Systems (OSs): </p>
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| 8 | <ul>
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| 9 | <li>
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| 10 | <p>
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| 11 | <b outputclass="bold">x86-64 Windows hosts:</b>
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| 12 | </p>
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| 13 | <ul>
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| 14 | <li>
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| 15 | <p>Windows 10 </p>
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| 16 | </li>
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| 17 | <li>
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| 18 | <p>Windows 11 </p>
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| 19 | </li>
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| 20 | <li>
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| 21 | <p>Windows Server 2022 </p>
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| 22 | </li>
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| 23 | </ul>
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| 24 | </li>
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| 25 | <li>
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| 26 | <p>
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| 27 | <b outputclass="bold">Intel x86-64 macOS hosts:</b>
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| 28 | </p>
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| 29 | <ul>
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| 30 | <li>
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| 31 | <p>11 (Big Sur) </p>
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| 32 | </li>
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| 33 | <li>
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| 34 | <p>12 (Monterey) </p>
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| 35 | </li>
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| 36 | <li>
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| 37 | <p>13 (Ventura) </p>
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| 38 | </li>
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| 39 | <li>
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| 40 | <p>14 (Sonoma)</p>
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| 41 | </li>
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| 42 | </ul>
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| 43 | <p>See also <xref href="KnownIssues.dita">Known Limitations</xref>. </p>
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| 44 | </li>
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| 45 | <li>
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| 46 | <p>
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| 47 | <b outputclass="bold">Arm macOS hosts (64-bit):</b></p>
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| 48 | <ul>
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| 49 | <li>
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| 50 | <p>11 (Big Sur) </p>
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| 51 | </li>
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| 52 | <li>
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| 53 | <p>12 (Monterey) </p>
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| 54 | </li>
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| 55 | <li>
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| 56 | <p>13 (Ventura) </p>
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| 57 | </li>
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| 58 | <li>
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| 59 | <p>14 (Sonoma)</p>
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| 60 | </li>
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| 61 | </ul>
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| 62 | <p>See also <xref href="guest-os.dita"/> for limitations on the VMs you can create on an Arm host. </p>
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| 63 | </li>
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| 64 | <li>
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| 65 | <p><b outputclass="bold">x86-64 Linux hosts.</b> Includes the following: </p>
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| 66 | <ul>
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| 67 | <li>
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| 68 | <p>Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, 22.04 and 24.04</p>
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| 69 | </li>
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| 70 | <li>
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| 71 | <p>Debian GNU/Linux 11 (Bullseye) and 12 (Bookworm)</p>
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| 72 | </li>
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| 73 | <li>
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| 74 | <p>Oracle Linux 8 and 9 </p>
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| 75 | </li>
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| 76 | <li>
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| 77 | <p>CentOS/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and 9 </p>
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| 78 | </li>
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| 79 | <li>
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| 80 | <p>Fedora 39 and 40</p>
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| 81 | </li>
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| 82 | <li>
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| 83 | <p>SUSE Linux Enterprise server 15</p>
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| 84 | </li>
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| 85 | <li>
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| 86 | <p>openSUSE Leap 15.3, 15.4 and 15.5</p>
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| 87 | </li>
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| 88 | </ul>
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| 89 | <p>It should be possible to use <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> on
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| 90 | most systems based on Linux kernel 2.6 or later, using either the <ph
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| 91 | conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> installer or by doing a manual
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| 92 | installation. See <xref href="install-linux-host.dita#install-linux-host"/>. However, the
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| 93 | formally tested and supported Linux distributions are those for which we offer a dedicated
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| 94 | package. </p>
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| 95 | <p>Note that Linux 2.4-based host OSes are no longer supported. </p>
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| 96 | </li>
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| 97 | <li>
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| 98 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Oracle Solaris hosts (64-bit
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| 99 | only).</b> The following versions are supported with
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| 100 | the restrictions listed in <xref href="KnownIssues.dita">Known Limitations</xref>:
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| 101 | </p>
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| 102 | <ul>
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| 103 | <li>
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| 104 | <p>
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| 105 | Oracle Solaris 11.4
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| 106 | </p>
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| 107 | </li>
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| 108 | </ul>
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| 109 | </li>
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| 110 | </ul>
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| 111 | <p>Note that any feature that is marked as <i>experimental</i> is not supported. Feedback and suggestions about such features are welcome. </p>
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| 112 | </body>
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| 113 | </topic>
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