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Ventrilo on VMware View workstation
I've got a VMware View 5.1 environment I'm working with. To test some VOIP type efforts I thought I'd try to connect to my friends ventrilo server.
With the teradici sound driver on the VDI machine I ...
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Virtual Box Virtual Disk not expanding
I have an iMac Core i5 host computer, 1TB Hard drive, 8GB Memory.
I have created a Virtual Box VM to run Fedora 14 64bit with a 200 GB Dynamically allocated hard drive.
Virtual Box version 4.1.6 ...
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What disk image should I use with VirtualBox, VDI, VMDK, VHD or HDD?
Latest versions of VirtualBox supports several formats for virtual disks, but they forgot to provide a comparison between them.
VDI
VMDK
VHD
HDD
Now, I am interested about a recommendation or ...
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Multi-hosts use of virtualbox vdi disk
Can Virtualbox's vdi disk used together by the virtualbox in Windows and linux host?
In my case, i am using virtualbox in windows os, the vdi is on storage server which is let me say Guaranteed will ...
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Mount vdi as drive in Windows
I am wanting to mount a VDI file that no longer boots to a drive in Windows to, hopefully, recover some files.
I am aware that Winmount advertises this function, but I am a bit confused about which ...
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How do you find out which vdi files are associated with a vm via the XML/VBox files?
How can I use these files to find the base vdi or vmdk hdd file?
File Structure
WordpressThemeDevBox.xml
WordpressThemeDevBox.xml-prev
WordpressThemeDevBox-1.10-windows.xml
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Could not find an open hard disk with UUID {…} on VirtualBox 4.1.2
Guest: Ubuntu
Guest VM Name: WordpressThemeDevBox
Host: Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate
VirtualBox Version: 4.1.2 r73507
I shut off my guest and removed the Current State snapshot using the Restore ...
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Where can I find desktop Ubuntu releases on a vmdk?
Any official or de-facto websites that supply this ?
Details: I specifically need Ubuntu 10.04 LTS desktop version,
in general; ubuntu desktop LTS versions.
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Can I mount a broken VDI file to Knoppix for recovery?
I was using my VirtualBox Win 2008 R2 guest and I left it on during the night. When I came back, I saw it was paused and when I tried to unpause it, it says the host reported no disk space. The thing ...
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How to mount or extract files from a vdi file on linux? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to mount a VirtualBox .vdi disk on Linux?
I have read various instructions on how to mount a FIXED VDI (virtual box) under linux (ubuntu, etc.) but I have a dynamic ...
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VirtualBox - How easy is it to export Ubuntu VDI to raw partitions
I would like to ask how easy is it to export an Ubuntu VDI in VirtualBox to raw partitions and make them boot natively with the boot menu?
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Virtual Machine Configuration that Can be Up and Running Instantly
How to create a virtual machine with a pre-installed OS and applications up and running instantly in any PC?
I'm using shared PCs in the library which have special hardware that will regenerate the ...
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Is it a very bad idea to create disk image of mounted disk?
I would like to backup my server. For example using dd:
dd if=/dev/md0 of=/some_network_share
I wonder if this image will be vary inconsistent if /dev/md0 is mounted? Would it be possible to ...
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VirtualBox: booting cloned disk
I'm trying to boot an existing Windows XP installation under Linux. It was a piece of cake under VMWare Fusion, but I've been pulling my hair out to do the same thing on Ubuntu 10.10.
First I tried ...
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How do I recover files from a corrupt VDI file?
Is it possible to repair a corrupt VDI file? The OS on the VDI (XP) doesn't boot at all, it just hangs at a black screen. I was getting file errors before on its last boot, but now its not working at ...
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Virtualbox errors and missing snapshots
I really hope someone can help me here as otherwise I've lost a lot of files :( I thought I'd move my VDI to my SSD drive to gain better performance. Now it seems to have reverted to it's original ...
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how to extend Virtual Box harddrive?
I run WinXP SP3 on my Virtual Box (3.2.10) under OSX 10.6.2 and the harddrive of the virtual box is getting too small.
Can I
extend exiting hdd somehow?
create new Virtual Box from a running ...
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Mount a .vdi in Windows 7 as a hard drive?
On my Windows 7 machine (host), I have a virtual machine (VirtualBox) running Ubuntu 10.10 - inside the .vdi, I have some large files that I would like to extract - one of them being a standalone .iso ...
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Is there a tool to convert VHD images to VDI images?
I saw the response for converting VDI images into VHD images, but I want to do the opposite conversion - is there a tool to do this?
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Can I back up a .vdi file from VirtualBox just like .vhd and have a “machine” always ready to start fresh?
If it is a Virtual PC .vhd file, then I can make a copy of it so that if the .vhd goes bad for any reason (catch a virus or installed undesirable software), then I can use that old .vhd and start a ...
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Migrate Ubuntu 10.04 installed on Machine to .VDI for Virtual Box HDD
I was using a Sony laptop with Ubuntu 10.04 installed on the machine. I have just bought a Mac and I will be using Ubuntu 10.04 as my primary development OS by virtualizing it using VirtualBox.
Now, ...
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Is there a way to exclude a specific drive vdi from “snapshots” in VirtualBox?
...or is there another space-efficient way of dealing with the page/swap file of the Guest O/S?
I've realised that its quite possible/likely that one of the things which "bloats" the snapshot/diff ...
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Can I use one virtualbox disk for multiple machines?
I'm not sure what search term to use and skimming through the VirtualBox manual didn't help me either, so I ask my two questions here...
My setup is this: PC with dual boot into Windows 7 and a ...
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Mount VirtualBox VDI disk
I have a virtual Windows 7 computer using VirtualBox on a Linux host. How can I mount this virtual pc's harddisk (VDI file) in Linux? It's a dynamic file, meaning that it only takes up as much space ...
