<p>Running Tails inside a virtual machine has various security implications. Depending on the host operating system and your security needs, running Tails in a virtual machine might be dangerous.</p>
<p>The Tails virtual machine does not modify the behaviour of the host operating system and the network traffic of the host is not anonymized. The MAC address of the computer is not modified by the [[MAC address anonymization|first_steps/welcome_screen/mac_spoofing]] feature of Tails when run in a virtual machine.</p>
To run Tails inside a virtual machine, you need to have virtualization software installed on the host operating system.Different virtualization software exists for Linux, Windows, and macOS.Unfortunately, we only know of virtualization solutions for Linux that work well with Tails.