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<topic id="host-guest-matrix">
    <title>Host and Guest Combinations</title>
    <body>
        <p>
            <table frame="all" rowsep="1" colsep="1">
                <title>Host and Guest (VM) Platform Combinations Available in VirtualBox</title>
                <desc>Summary matrix of available host platforms and the Virtual machines they run.</desc>
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                    <thead>
                        <row>
                            <entry>Host Hardware Architecture</entry>
                            <entry>Host OS (all 64 bit)</entry>
                            <entry>Guest Virtual Hardware Architecture</entry>
                            <entry>Guest OS</entry>
                        </row>
                    </thead>
                    <tbody>
                        <row>
                            <entry>x86_64 (for example Intel or AMD)</entry>
                            <entry>
                                <p>Windows</p>
                                <p>Windows Server</p>
                                <p>macOS (requires Intel hardware)</p>
                                <p>Linux (various distributions)</p>
                                <p>Oracle Solaris</p>
                            </entry>
                            <entry>x86 and x86_64</entry>
                            <entry>
                                <p>Windows</p>
                                <p>Windows Server</p>
                                <p>Oracle Solaris</p>
                                <p>Linux (various distributions)</p>
                            </entry>
                        </row>
                        <row>
                            <entry>Arm64</entry>
                            <entry>
                                <p>Windows 11 (Experimental Feature)</p>
                                <p>macOS (requires Apple silicon hardware)</p>
                            </entry>
                            <entry>Arm64</entry>
                            <entry>
                                <p>Linux (various distributions)</p>
                                <p>Windows 11</p>
                            </entry>
                        </row>
                    </tbody>
                </tgroup>
            </table>
        </p>
    </body>
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