Guest Operating Systems on Intel Macs

Microsoft Windows Clients as a Guest Operating System under Mac OS X

Some of the virtualization/emulation software may require special additions/drivers inside of Windows.

	Bochs	Parallels Desktop 5	QEMU	Virtual Box	VMware Fusion 3
Windows 7 (32-bit)	?	Yes		Yes	Yes
Windows 7 (64-bit)	?	Yes		?	Yes
Windows Vista (32-bit)	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Windows Vista (64-bit)	?	Yes	Not well	?	Yes
Windows XP (32-bit)	Yes (see note)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Windows XP SP2 (64-bit)		Yes	Yes	?	Yes
Windows 2000 Pro	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes
Windows 98 SE		Yes	Yes	Yes (See notes)	Yes
Windows ME		Yes	No	?	Yes
Windows 95 SP1	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	Yes
Windows NT 4 Workstation SP6a	Yes (see note)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Microsoft Windows Server as a Guest Operating System under Mac OS X

Some of the virtualization/emulation software may require special additions/drivers inside of Windows.

	Bochs	Parallels Desktop 5	QEMU	Virtual Box	VMware Fusion 3
Windows Server 2008 (32-bit)	?	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Windows Server 2008 (64-bit)	?	Yes	No	?	Yes
Windows Server 2003 SP2 (32-bit)	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Widnows 2000 Server SP	Yes	Yes	?	?	Yes
Windows NT 4 Server SP6a	Yes (see note)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Mac OS X Server as a Guest Operating System under Mac OS X

	Parallels Desktop 5	VMWare Fusion 3
Mac OS X 10.5.x Leopard (32-Bit)	Yes	Yes
Mac OS X 10.5.x Leopard (64-Bit)	Yes	Yes
Mac OS X 10.6.x Snow Leopard (32-Bit)	Yes	Yes
Mac OS X 10.6.x Snow Leopard (64-Bit)	Yes	Yes

Other OSes Running as a Guest Operating System under Mac OS X

	Bochs	DosBOX	Parallels Desktop 5	QEMU	Virtual Box	VMware Fusion 3
Windows NT 3.5		No		Yes
Windows 3.0 / 3.1 / 3.11	Yes	Yes (see note)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Windows 2.x				Yes
Windows 1.0.1				Yes
MS-DOS 6.x	Yes	N/A	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
OS/2 Warp 4.x		No	Yes	Yes (see notes)	Yes	?
OS/2 Warp 3		No	Yes			?
OS/2 2.1				Yes
eComStation (OS/2)		No	Yes			?