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Unable to resize CENTOS 6.4 root partition in Virtual Box

I'm trying to resize a virtual disk (CENTOS 6.4 root partition) running under Virtual Box.. I followed the guide here, and all seemed ok (gparted allowed me to extend the disk - after right-click ...
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My vbox shared mount will not auto mount and is only ready only?

My vbox shared mount will not auto mount and is only ready only? I am using scientific linux host and centOS guest and I am trying to share a folder I have in both accounts but the folder is only ...
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CentOS 6 does not show any desktop icons or anything in the panel

I was using CentOS 6 in VirtualBox fine for a couple of days. Now, when I login via the GUI user prompt, all I get is the background screen, no icons, no menubar, nothing. I am not terribly familiar ...
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Special instructions for CentOS VBox virtual machine?

I am gearing up to create a CentOS 5.5 server virtual machine in VBox and was wondering if there are special instructions, configurations or settings that I should be aware of ahead of time. ...
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Which CentOS ISO to use for my virtual machine? [closed]

I have a physical server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga). I would like to create a virtual machine (using VirtualBox) with a binary-compatible version of CentOS server as ...
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network to NAT in Virtual Box and strange IP

I have just installed CENT-OS in a Virtual Box inside the internal network. The network setup is set to 'attached to NAT'. When I enable the network interface in CENTOS I can see that my IP address is ...
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CentOS freezes during startup in VirtualBox

This is an installation of CentOS 6.3 in VirtualBox 4.2. I was able to install with no problems and have booted it up about 3-4 times previously and used it without any issues. Now, when I start it, ...
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Internet access ok on host, fails from guest unless host is using VPN

I have a Vagrant-provisioned CentOS guest on an Ubuntu host. Internet access from host is absolutely fine. But Internet access from guest often fails unless host is using VPN. For example: Host ...
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How to set up a NAT and and a Host Only adapter using Vagrant?

I am trying to make a NAT connection (for yum downloads) and a Host-Only connection (for talking with host) at the same time on my CentOS box when using Vagrant. I CAN do it by SSHing and checking ...
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Monitor network traffic of my virtual machine through my CentOS Computer

In my CentOS 6.3 computer, I installed a MS Server 2008 through a VirtualBox. Is it possible to monitor the network traffic/activities of my MS Server 2008 in my CentOS? How can I do that?
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How do you set up a VirtualBox CentOS 6.3 VM . . . in order to access it via SSH from a remote host (not host to guest)?

What should I do? I installed VirtualBox 4.2.6 I installed CentOS 6.3 It's powered on # ip addr 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/loopback ...
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Set up a config file on Centos running on virtual box

I have installed Centos 5.8 on a virtual box. I'm trying to set my home page as one of the files located under /var/www/mobuynet.net/htdocs (mobuynet.net is my site name) The file that should run is ...
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Guest Additions not working on CentOS

I'm running CentOS 6.3 x64 in CLI. When I try to install guest additions, everything seems to work. Except "Installing the window system drivers" returns "[FAILED[ (Could not find the X.Org or XFree86 ...
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install centos on virtualbox, your partition is less than 4671mb

I am trying to install CentOS under my VirtualBox but keep on getting this error: "The following errors occured with your partition: Your / partition is less thean 4671 MB which is lower that ...
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Can't use VirtualBox shared folder as Apache document root

Having jumped through several hundred hoops I've finally managed to get Centos 5.8 to mount a VirtualBox shared folder (which is not read-only), which now appears at: /media/sf_sites This is a ...
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Can't connect to virtual Cent OS server from Windows 7 Virtual Machine

I'm completely stumped. I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 as the host. I also have a virtual Cent OS server running in VirtualBox. With a browser on my host (Ubuntu), I can hit the server and see my web pages ...
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eth0 not starting on boot after Virtualbox clone

After cloning my CentOS VM in Virtualbox (I used the Reinitialize the MAC address of all network cards option), the original and the clone VM both now has 127.0.0.1 as their IP. Anyone knows how to ...
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Ping outputs “destination unreachable” on CentOS guest under Windows host

This is my VM setup: Host: Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit Guest: CentOS 6.3 i386 Oracle VirtualBox 4.1.22 Networking: Bridge I can't ping any IP except the router's IP. ping 4.2.2.4 output: ping ...
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Bottom panel missing on CentOS on full screen VirtualBox

I am running CentOS as guest on VirtualBox from Windows 7 host. When I switch my resolution to a lower one, the bottom panel looks fine: But when I use the max resolution of my monitor (1600x900), ...
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Virtualbox SSH from Windows 7 (host) to CentOS (guest)

My network adapter is set to "Bridged Adapter". My CentOS (guest) IP is 192.168.0.4 and I am able to view Apache web server (port 80) from Windows 7 (host) but I am unable to SSH (port 22). I get ...
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Disc not found when installing CentOS in VirtualBox

On Windows 7, I am trying to install CentOS (CentOS-6.2-i386-netinstall.iso) using VirtualBox however it says Disc not found after language selection. Here's exactly what I'm getting: ...
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VirtualBox in CentOS6 - Failure to create a new virtual machine

The following error appears when I try to install a virtual machine in centos 6, since i removed everything and install again, but I still get the error ... Failure to create a new virtual machine. ...
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ssh refuses to authenticate keys

So I am setting up a connection between my machine [fedora 17] and a virtual machine running in Virtual Box in which is running CentOS 5. I have installed openssh from the repositories on CentOS, and ...
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can't start centos vm on a windows vm

I have a windows server 2008 64 bit virtual machine in our lab environment. I have entered it remotely, installed virtual box, and started a centos 2.6.18 64bit VM. I get this message on boot: your ...
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How to transfer files from Host OS to guest OS running on VirtualBox?

I am trying to transfer files from my Host OS (Windows 7) to Guest OS (CentOS) running on VirtualBox. I tried using pscp but it gives the error: More than one remote source not supported I tried ...
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After doubling virtual disk size in VirtualBox, fdisk -l still shows old disk size in guest CentOS

I'm running CentOS 6.1 as a guest in VirtualBox 4.1.18 on a Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) host. Since 50 GB for my CentOS guest proved to be insufficient, I resolved to double its available disk space. ...
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How do I use Virtualbox to create a dev environment accessible outside of my home office?

I have created a dev environment of my website... using VirtualBox... and now I need to make it accessible outside of my home office network. I am using Virtualbox 4.1.18 installed on a Win7 desktop ...
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Installing CentOS 6 - Device may need to be reinitialized

I'm trying to install linux centOS 6 on my pc (on sun virtual mashine - virtualbox) I'm installing on a empty partition of my hard drive. and my primery OS is windows 7 ultimate 64bit. What should i ...
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Sharing files between centOS on virtualbox and windows 7 as the host

I have centOS 5.5 installed on virtual box it has no GUI so every thing is command based. I want to make a folder in centOS which i can share with my windows 7 host OS such that i can send files to ...
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Virtualbox: How to access web server on guest OS from the host OS?

After a lot of RTFM'ing and reading forums, I am still having problems and need some advice. I use Virtualbox on Ubuntu and installed a Centos server as a guest. My problem is that I cannot access the ...
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Virtual Box Pen Test Lab Set Up

So i'm trying to set up a pen test lab in virtual box on my windows 7 host. I have 3 guest OS's installed: 1.) BackTrack5 2.) Centos 5 Server/Snort (My Snortbox) 3.) Win XP (Unpatched) I have 3 ...
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Virtual Box fails my OSes :( [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Linux Mint VM in VirtualBox freezes with DISKFULL error I have a little problem with Virtual Box latest version in which i have installed Mint (also latest ...
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“FATAL: could not read from the boot medium! system halted”

I've a problem with Virtual Box, I cannot access to a CentOS virtual machine. I'm using a openfiler local server connected to my network.In addition, I can access to all the other LUN disks that I've ...
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Unable to access the internet from my VirtualBox CentOS VM via wireless connection

I have a VirtualBox CentOS VM setup on my Windows 7 machine. I can ping my router, however I am unable to access the outside world. In Windows I have three network connections setup: Wireless ...
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Using CentOS virtual box guest OS as a local web server

I've installed CentOS as a virtual box os under my osx host, and have been trying to use it as a local web server, but I've run into some problems. First, I want to establish that I've installed ...
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Can't access Apache in my CentOS Virtualbox

I'm setting up a VirtualBox with CentOS so I can test out all my code, etc. on a Linux box instead of the Windows I use for development. I just got the SSH working (I SSH to localhost:2222 and it ...
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Can't seem to SSH into my CentOS Virtualbox?

I can't seem to SSH into my CentOS VirtualBox 4.0 running on Windows 7 64-bit. SSHD is running. I've forwarded port 2222 on localhost to the virtual machine (port 22). The network adapter is NAT ...
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VirtualBox Under CentOS vboxdrv not loaded

I am a newcomer with linux. I have a little problem with linux. Whenever I try to open [start] virtual box, I get this error and do not know how to fix VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED (rc=-1908) The ...
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Are two IP addresses necessary with VirtualBox and Bridged Networking?

I have a CentOS 6 server with eight physical network adapters. I want to run Windows Server 2008 R2 as a Guest OS in VirtualBox with a bridged network adapter. On my CentOS box eth2 (192.168.10.4) ...
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How do I switch to a higher resolution in Centos 6 installed on a virtual machine (VirtualBox)?

I have installed Centos 6 on a virtual machine (virtualbox). Maximum available screen resolution is 800x600. How do I get higher resolutions?
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How do you automatically detect a new network card in CentOS 6 / RedHat?

I'm using CentOS 6 in a virtual environment. When cloning a virtual version of CentOS, the old eth adapters are "removed" and replaced with new ones and net MAC addresses. However, the ifcfg-ethn ...
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CentOS, Virtual Box, and Ping

Ok, long story... I have two VM's running in Virtual Box. Both are configured with an internal network adapter and a NAT'ed connection (for internet connection only). One VM is running CentOS 5 and ...
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run web server from virtual machine, how do I use port 80

I have a host system running Fedora 15 and I have a guest system running CentOS 5.5 in VirtualBox. I did set up a virtualmin install and added port forwarding to the virtual machine. When I forward ...
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( Oracle VirtualBox 4 on Windows 7 64-bit ) + ( CentOS 5.6 64-bit ) = “ Your CPU does not support long mode. Use a 32bit distribution ”

VM: Oracle VirtualBox 4.0.10 r72479 Host OS: Windows 7 64-bit Guest OS: CentOS 5.6 64-bit Downloaded a ready-made image of the guest OS from here. When running, CentOS tells me: Your CPU does ...
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Install Codendi on CentOS

I want to manage my project using project management software. After reading about Codendi, I try to install Codendi 4.2.3.10 on CentOS 5.6 using VirtualBox 4.0.2. Here's the situation: I'm totally ...
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VirtualBox problems writing to shared folders (Guest Additions installed)

I am trying to setup a shared folder from the host (ubuntu 10.10) to mount on a virtualized CentOS 5.5 with Guest Additions (4.0.0) installed (Guest addition features are working ie. seamless mode ...