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How can I access data from another vbox?
I am using Oracle as my VM running an Ubuntu VBox. During the initial setup, I moved and configured a lot of information on it. Before I did a snapshot (my bad!) a power failure crashed the vbox and ...
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Should I defrag the hard drive running on a Virtual Machine?
I know that there is no point (in fact it is a bad idea) to run Defrag on an SSD. What about a virtual machine running on an SSD, should I defrag it's hard drive since it is basically accessing the ...
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Raid Enclosures for running VM's
I'm looking at getting a Raid Enclosure for running vm's on. I have noticed that the ones that I have found, only have 1 sata port on the back of them. I'm going to be running the hard drives in ...
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What is a benefit of using separate HDD / RAID controller?
I have Asus P6T Deluxe V2 motherboard with integrated HDD controller providing 6 SATA II (3 Gb/s) ports. I use this controller for 2 SSDs and 4 HDDs. SSDs and one HDD are for host system (Windows 7 ...
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How to enable WiFi bridged networking in VirtualBox ? [closed]
I would like to set up my virtual machine (Debian 6.0.4 64 bit) in VirtualBox on Windows 7 64 bit host OS.
When I launch my virtual machine with NAT networking option everything runs fine but when I ...
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Seagate Momentus XT hybrid drive and VMWare virtual disks
I would like to know how does Seagate Momentus XT see virtual disk?
As a single huge file (size depending on virtual disk type)
As individual file within this virtual disk?
If the first one is ...
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VMware Encryption
When I user "Encrypt Virtual Machine" with Vmware Workstation, can I still use the virtual machine with Vmware player?
Also, I cannot mount the associated VMDK using the mount utilities right?
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Apple 10.7 Lion OS on Windows 7 Using VirtualBox [closed]
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How to run Mac OS X within Windows Virtual PC?
So I do not own a Mac, and have never owned a Mac so I am not really sure how it typically works with the OS'. I am ...
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Using Windows Virtual PC Images in Parallels
I have a dual-boot bootcamp install of OSX and Windows 7 on my Macbook Pro. On the Windows install, I've created a series of Windows XP Mode installs so that I can access each IE browser in its native ...
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How do I get started with Virtual PC on Windows 7 Pro?
I would like to set up a Virtual PC VM on my Windows 7 Pro host machine. On the Microsoft VPC page I chose to download only VPC, not the damned XP Mode poster child, and I got to download the file ...
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Setup HP MicroServer as Homeserver for NAS and other stuff
I've got a brand new HP Proliant Microserver N40L here, which I want to use mainly as a NAS system (because it has four hard drive bays) but since it also is a full-featured homeserver with enough RAM ...
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If I have my VM on an SSD but my OS on a spin drive will I take a significant performance hit when using the VM?
I'm not a fan of cryptic question title's, but then I'm not too sure how to elaborate but here goes:
We were planning on buying new PCs for our developers with 128GB SSD drives (the VM takes around ...
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In virtualization, should Windows host Linux or should Linux host Windows? [closed]
I bought a new home server which I'm going to use for developement, HTPC and many others. I'm thinking of havine one Windows VM and multiple linux VMs.
I've thinking about this for last few days but ...
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Is it still relevant to run a virtual machine from an external hard drive?
I'm running Windows 7 through Parallels 6 on a 15" Macbook Pro (2.53 i5, 8 GB ram) with the Momentus XT 7200 RPM 500 GB drive (it has the SSD hybrid). Would it run faster and give me better throughput ...
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VirtualBox? Hangs on creation of new VM from VHD with Windows 7
Does this product even work on Windows 7 (64 bit)? It says its supported, but I have tried about 5 times in a row to create my first VM with existing VHD file, and this thing just hangs @ zero percent ...
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how to ping a virtual interface on a virtual machine to another virtual interface on an other virtual machine.
Using virtual box with bridged interface setup.
If I ad a virtual interface on two virtual machines use iproute2
sudo ip link add type veth
I assign ip address to the virtual interfaces on ...
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How can I find out the memory usage of a Virtual PC VM through the host?
If I start a VM using Virtual PC then Task Manager does not show the memory usage of the VM. For example, right now I have a Windows 7 VM running. I have:
VMWindow.exe 60MB RAM
vpc.exe 24MB ...
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Host-only network with multiple VMs
What I'm trying to do is create a host-only network with multiple VMs so as to allow direct access between the host OS and the VMs, but to also allow the VMs limited access to the Internet for things ...
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Where does the Filezila and two user accounts come from?
Good day to you all.
I suspect, with almost undeniable certainty, that the VirtualXP is at fault.
For the past 6 months--surely longer--I have been coming back to my office to find that there are ...
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Using VMware/Virtual box to simulate a cluster of nodes, but actually using a single machine
I am developing a webapp using Cassandra database which works on a multi-nodes cluster. But I don't have multiple machines to create a cluster while development. Is it possible to create a cluster ...
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Virtual Machine problems
i recently tried using backtrack 5 in a virtual machine (host is Mac OSX) after my bootable USBs stopped working (see 1). However, this too shows the message:
and when i type in the name of the ...
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Vwmare network card issues possibly after Installation of VirtualBox
I use VMWare workstation and have had no problems with my virtual machines and bridging the network card. However, I installed Virtualbox to check it out and ever since I can't establish a network ...
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How can I access a VMware client that's located on a remote host?
I use VMware Fusion at work to test my websites in different versions of IE by running multiple copies of Windows on my Macbook Air. At home, I use VMware Workstation to do the same thing. My desktop ...
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OSX: Howto start VirtualBox VM on startup?
The Question
How do i start this Wiki VM at the startup of the OSX Server?
I am running OSX Server 10.6.8 and VirtualBox 4.1.8 r75467 and a Debian Linux VM (called "wiki").
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What I tried so far
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VMware player in ubuntu(host) steals focus from guest os (windows)
When I run a vmware player in ubuntu and virtualize windows 7.
It happens 10 times a hour at least that the focus is set back to ubuntu.
If i move the cursor to the top left, the ubuntu unity menu ...
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Is it legal to host a Windows 7 Virtual Machine in a cloud? [closed]
I pretty sure that windows 7 is allowed to be installed as a virtual machine using something like VMWare, or virtual box, but is it legal to create a Windows 7 image, and then host it using a private ...
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Virtual Machine (VirtualBox) — How to access files from the hosting machine?
I have a PC with Windows 7 Ultimate (A) running on it. From within that OS I have VirtualBox running another Windows 7 instance (B).
Is there any way for the Windows 7 (B) to access files from ...
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10000x10000 virtual resolution desktop
I have a java applet map viewer and I'd like to plot out the map it displays. To do that I need to open it in a high enough resolution to avoid too much stitching.
Is there any possible way I could ...
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Easiest setup for someone new to Virtual Machines?
I've never used a virtual machine, but I'd to start..
What's the easiest setup in terms of software and operating system? What's free? Any tips for someone completely new to the virtual machine ...
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Portable Virtual Machine
I'd like to make myself a portable virtual machine for bringing my own sandboxes for development and staging on-the-go.
I'd mainly run Arch Linux and Windows Server 2008 on those.
I was thinking of ...
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Any VM software have a virtualized WiFi adapter?
I'm looking to brush up on my Windows Native WiFi API knowledge but I don't want to use BootCamp. Any ideas?
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Using a Distributed or Clustered File System on hosts for Virtual Instances - how?
I'm looking for a way to HOT back up (externally, via USB or LAN) my virtual machines while the machines are still active & running. I have number of challenges:
Dealing with large variety of ...
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Running a VM off a USB 2.0 Flash Drive - Mac/Parallels/XP
I use a MacBook Air as my primary machine, and the 128GB SSD means space is precious. To save about 10 GB, I've been running Parallels with a Windows XP VM off an external USB hard drive, which ...
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What is the maximum performance I can get from a Virtual CPU?
While I wait for the IT dept to set up the new hyper-V cluster, I'm reading up on virtual machines. It's a really simple question.
If I only have a single VM, with a single Virtual CPU, what is the ...
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How to edit file on virtual machine?
I broke my /etc/fstab file on my guest system in VirtualBox. How can I correct it? I tried virt-edit, but I can't get it working.
Guest OS: Debian
Host: Ubuntu
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how do I 'hard refresh' a shared directory?
VMWare player 4.0.1 build-528992
I added a file to a shared directory in Windows 7. When I ls -l that directory in Ubuntu 11 it looks like: (2nd line)
ls: cannot access item_spec.rb: No such file ...
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Which version of Centos should be installed on a pc with i7 2600k cpu? [closed]
I have a pc which has a i7 2600k cpu. Should I install i386 or x86_64 centos on Virtualbox? and what are the differences between them?
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How to boot an existing OS installation in a VM/Emulator [closed]
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Is it possible to run my other partition inside of a VM?
I am thinking of keeping Windows installed on one partition, and installing Linux another. Is there any Virtual ...
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Resize a VM hard-drive (virtualbox)
Is there a way to resize a VM hard drive? I am using virtualbox and I have a VM that has run out of space, looked into the settings but it seems I may have to create another partition. I thought ...
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Is Windows 7 Inside Linux Just as Good as Running as Main OS (esp for Graphics and Video)?
New Linux user. Was wondering if running Windows 7 inside Ubuntu/Linux Mint via VMPlayer will be just the same as running Windows 7 as the main OS.
By "same" I particularly mean:
Will the ...
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VMware guest pauses when the host is idle - how do I keep it running?
I'm running VMWare Worstation 7 with Windows 7 x64 as guest, Windows XP x64 as host. Inside the guest I run a long-running console application, which prints out progress messages with timestamps on ...
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linux 'top' not showing all processes
I am running linux top command to see processes running inside qemu VM. Sometimes, a process does not appear in them, but if I run,
ps -eo psr,pcpu,comm | grep myprocessname
then the process is ...
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VMware virtual WindowsXP - VMDK or ISO for a third person who is going to use it
Our team made a little application, then created in VMware Player a Windows XP virtual OS and installed the application into it. Now the guy who is going to use wants us to make an image of it, burn ...
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Unable to link No-IP to my website that is hosted on a VBox machine
I have a webserver running on a virtual platform (VBox). Have set the VBox adapter to bridged mode. Am able to access the webpage from my host machine. I have also configured dynamic DNS (No-IP) on my ...
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VMWare Workstation 8.01 Update Screwed me, anyone know what to do?
Basically, one day VMWare offered an update one day (8.0.1 build-528992 my current version) from 8.0. So I took it, because updates fix problems right? Nope.
Basically, before it worked very well. ...
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How to create a virtual appliance in VirtualBox
I'm brand new to the concept of virtualization and VMs and have downloaded VirtualBox and created my first VM (an Ubuntu box).
I understand that a "virtual appliance" is very similar to a VM, however ...
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VirtualMachine don't start after macbook sleep
The VM was running a Windows 7 (vm with 3GB ram and 2 cores processor) and I has to get out for a while, the macbook entered in sleep when I back to use the VM was with a black screen I reseted and ...
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Exporting VMs with VirtualBox
New to VBox and can't seem to find any documentation on this that is friendly for newcomers. I have set up a guest VM on one host (my laptop), and now I want to move that VM to another physical ...
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Creating Ubuntu VM with VirtualBox
I am trying to set up my very first virtual machine via VirtualBox (4.1.8). I created the machine and selected Linux >> Ubuntu inside VBox's installation wizard. I then went to run the machine ...
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Enable to connect my virtual XP machine to my host system machine
I have created a VM machine in my host system (Windows 7). After creating the VM machine through VM work station, I want to connect this VM machine to my host machine (Windows 7 operating system). The ...
