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VirtualBox supports ARM hosts (from 7.1.0 on macOS hosts, 7.2.0 adds Windows host support)
 
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== General ==
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! Name
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| x86, x86-64, ARMv7, AArch64
| x86 (Intel 8086 to Pentium II and compatible)
| [[Windows]], [[Linux]], [[macOS]]
| [[Windows]], [[Linux]], [[DOS]], [[Berkeley Software Distribution|BSD]], [[OS/2]], [[Haiku (operating system)|Haiku]]
| {{open source|[[GPL version 3]]}}
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| {{Proprietary}}
|-
! [[Hyper-V]] (2012+)
| [[Microsoft]]
| x86-64 with Intel VT-x or AMD-V<!--RemoteFX requires SLAT which is independent of the previous. -->, ARMv8<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2020/02/05/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-19559/ |title=Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19559|website=blogs.windows.com |access-date=23 February 2020}}</ref>
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| Same as host
| No host OS, Linux or Windows as dev. hosts
| PikeOS native, Linux, [[ELinOS]], [[Windows]], POSIX, AUTOSAR, Android, [[RTEMS]], [[OSEK]], [[ARINC 653]] APEX, [[ITRON]]
| {{Proprietary}}
|-
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| x86, x86-64, IA-64, PowerPC, SPARC 32/64, ARM, S/390, MIPS
| x86, x86-64, Alpha, ARM, CRIS, LM32, [[M68k]], MicroBlaze, MIPS, OpenRisc32, PowerPC, S/390, SH4, SPARC 32/64, Unicore32, Xtensa
| Windows ("experimental"<ref name="qemu-windows-host" />), Linux, macOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BeOS
| Changes regularly<ref name="QEMU" />
| {{open source|[[GNU General Public License|GPL]]/[[LGPL]]}}
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! [[VirtualBox]]
| Innotek, acquired by [[Oracle Corporation]]
| x86, x86-64, ARMv8
| x86, x86-64 (with Intel VT-x or AMD-V, and VirtualBox 2 or later), ARMv8 (from 7.1 on macOS, 7.2 on Windows)
| Windows, Linux, macOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, eComStation
| DOS, Linux, macOS,<ref name="virtualbox" /> FreeBSD, [[Haiku (operating system)|Haiku]], OS/2, Solaris, Syllable, Windows, and OpenBSD (with Intel VT-x or AMD-V, due to otherwise tolerated incompatibilities in the emulated memory management).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=17930|title=virtualbox.org • View topic – Theo de Raadt discourages VirtualBox usage..|website=forums.virtualbox.org|language=en-gb|access-date=2017-10-15}}</ref>
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! VMM
| [[OpenBSD]]
| x86-64
| x86, x86-64
| same as host
| OpenBSD
| OpenBSD and Linux guests
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== Features ==
 
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== Image type compatibility ==
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! [[ISO image|ISO]]
! [[Directory (computing)|folders]] on host
! {{verth|va=middle|physical disk / <br/>device}}
! {{verth|va=middle|raw / flat <br/>(whole disk)}}<!-- [[IMG (file format)#IMG raw disk image format|IMG]] -->
! {{verth|va=middle|raw / flat <br/>([[Disk partitioning|partition]])}}
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! {{verth|va=middle|hdd <br/>([[Parallels Workstation|Parallels]])}}
! {{verth|va=middle|[[qcow|QCOW]] <br/>([[QEMU]])}}
! {{verth|va=middle|[[qcow#qcow2|QCOW2]] <br/>([[QEMU]])}}
! {{verth|va=middle|QED <br/>([[QEMU]])}}
! {{verth|va=middle|[[VDI (file format)|VDI]] <br/>([[VirtualBox]])}}
! {{verth|va=middle|[[VHD (file format)|VHD]] <br/>([[Connectix Virtual PC]])}}
! {{verth|va=middle|VHDX <br/>([[Hyper-V]])}}
! {{verth|va=middle|[[VMDK]] <br/>([[VMware Workstation|VMware]])}}
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| {{no}} <!-- raw img partition -->
| {{no}} <!-- HDD -->
| {{no}}} <!-- QCOW -->
| {{no}} <!-- QCOW2 -->
| {{no}} <!-- QED -->
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| {{no}} <!-- VMDK -->
|-
! [[Bochs]]<ref>{{cite web |url=httphttps://bochs.sourceforge.net/doc/docbook/user/harddisk-modes.html |title=8.19. Disk Image Modes |publisher=Bochs.sourceforge.net |access-date=2013-10-08}}</ref>
| {{yes}}<!-- floppy -->
| {{yes}}<!-- ISO -->
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| {{no}} <!-- HDD -->
| {{no}} <!-- QCOW -->
| {{partial|{{nowrap|DOSBox-X}} fork}} <!-- QCOW2 -->
| {{no}} <!-- QED -->
| {{no}} <!-- VDI -->
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! [[ISO image|ISO]]
! [[Directory (computing)|folders]] on host
! {{verth|va=middle|physical disk / <br/>device}}
! {{verth|va=middle|raw / flat <br/>(whole disk)}}
! {{verth|va=middle|raw / flat <br/>([[Disk partitioning|partition]])}}
! {{verth|va=middle|hdd <br/>([[Parallels Workstation|Parallels]])}}
! {{verth|va=middle|[[qcow|QCOW]] <br/>([[QEMU]])}}
! {{verth|va=middle|[[qcow#qcow2|QCOW2]] <br/>([[QEMU]])}}
! {{verth|va=middle|QED <br/>([[QEMU]])}}
! {{verth|va=middle|[[VDI (file format)|VDI]] <br/>([[VirtualBox]])}}
! {{verth|va=middle|[[VHD (file format)|VHD]] <br/>([[Connectix Virtual PC]])}}
! {{verth|va=middle|VHDX <br/>([[Hyper-V]])}}
! {{verth|va=middle|[[VMDK]] <br/>([[VMware Workstation|VMware]])}}
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== Other features ==
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| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| {{N/A|N/A}}
| <!-- PCI passthrough -->
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| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{n/a|Not needed}}
| {{yes}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36803/zonelimit.html|title=beadm in Non-Global Zones – Creating and Administering Oracle Solaris 11.2 Boot Environments|date=11 November 2014|work=oracle.com}}</ref>
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| {{n/a|Not needed}}
| {{n/a|Not needed}}
|-
! [[DosBox]]
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| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| {{dunno}}
| ?
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
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| {{no}}
| {{dunno}}
| ?
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
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| {{yes}}
| Supported with [[VMGL]]<ref name="VMGL"/>
| ?{{dunno}} <!-- probably one of [1, line, branched]; delete this comment after adding information -->
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
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! [[z/VM]]
| {{yes}}
| {{N/A|Not applicable}}
| {{yes}} (zURM/HMC)
| {{yes}}
| {{N/A|Not applicable}}
|
|
| {{yes}} (2011)
| <!-- shared folders -->
| {{N/A|Not applicable}}
| {{N/A|Not applicable}}
|-
! z [[LPAR]]s
| {{yes}}
| {{N/A|Not applicable}}
| {{yes}} (HMC)
| {{yes}}
| {{N/A|Not applicable}}
|
|
| {{yes}} (2007)
| <!-- shared folders -->
| {{N/A|Not applicable}}
| {{N/A|Not applicable}}
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<ref name="arstechnica">{{cite web |last = Protalinski |first = Emil |url = https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/08/microsoft-hyper-v-server-2008-r2-arrives-for-free |title = Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 arrives for free |publisher = Ars Technica |date = 2009-09-01 |access-date = 2013-10-08 }}</ref>
 
<ref name="bochs1">{{cite web |url = httphttps://bochs.sourceforge.net/doc/docbook/user/supported-platforms.html |title = 1.8. Supported Platforms |website = Bochs.sourceforge.net |access-date = 2015-02-22 }}</ref>
 
<ref name="bochs2">{{cite web |url = httphttps://bochs.sourceforge.net/doc/docbook/user/compiling.html |title = 3.4. Compiling Bochs |website = Bochs.sourceforge.net |access-date = 2015-02-22 }}</ref>
 
<ref name="bhyve1">{{cite web |url = https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve/Windows |title = Bhyve supports Windows |access-date = 2015-12-22}}</ref>
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<ref name="rhel.kvm.arm">{{cite web |url = https://access.redhat.com/articles/2690601&context=etd |title = Development Preview of KVM Virtualization on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for ARM |website = redhat.com |access-date = 2017-05-15 }}</ref>
 
<ref name="qemu-windows-host">{{ cite web | url = https://qemu.weilnetz.de/w64/ | title = QEMU Binaries for Windows (64 bit) | website = qemu.weilnetz.de | access-date = 2025-08-18 }}</ref>
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