A virtual machine is an emulation of a guest operating system, running on virtualized hardware within a host operating system.
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Byobu kills windows at will
I use byobu on a virtual server (uname -a shows Linux mezgrman 2.6.32-5-openvz-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Feb 25 01:16:25 UTC 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux).
When I log in to the machine via SSH and byobu isn't ...
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CentOS 6.4 on Hyper-V memory exhausting issue
I am having an issue where the RAM on the virtualised machine is becoming exhausted after periods of time, the machine itself has 4GB RAM assigned to it and it always seems to be reporting around 15% ...
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How to adjust screen size for VirtualBox VMs?
I'm trying to use FreeBSD on VirtualBox, and everything seems to be working fine.
However, I'm quite annoyed by the default size of VB VM screens.
The BSD console just has a very low resolution and ...
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How would I recover a crashed Windows 7 instance running in VMware Player?
I run a VMware Workstation 9.0 VM (Windows 7 x64) on a Windows XP (32bit) host on i7 hardware in free VMware Player. This VM had dedicated only 1GB memory and run accordingly slow with a lot of ...
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Can't connect with internet in mac leopard on Virtual box windows 8 [closed]
I have installed mac leopard on windows 8 using virtual box. To use internet in mac leopard i have used NAT option as the image shown here: http://i.stack.imgur.com/vB2TB.png but no internet on mac! ...
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I have a dual-boot Win 7/Ubuntu 12 machine, when in Ubuntu can I run the Win 7 partition as a VM?
I have a working dual-boot configuration with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as the primary OS, and Win7 x64 Ultimate as the secondary.
Most of the time, rebooting to run Windows programs is just fine, as I want ...
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How to configure IP forwarding on Netgear N600 WNDR3400 router
I've got a Netgear N600 WNDR3400 Router at home. Is it possible to create a virtual hostname on my home network and have it forward to specific IP's of my choosing? For instance, create a virtual host ...
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Taking a snapshot of your HDD, so you can revert back to it anytime
I have an OS installed in VirtualBox and like how I can take a snapshot of the current state of the OS before making changes to it, from changing settings, to installing software, to applying updates, ...
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Remote Access over the Network to a Virtual Box Machine
I am trying to remotely access a machine on Virtual Box, which is on a terminal server, but I don't want to have to log onto the terminal server first.
I have enabled the Remote Display Settings in ...
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Which virtual machine allows forwarding host partition to guest
I have dual system on my laptop, one Windows 7 and one Fedora 18, and I want to access linux partition under windows. As there are no BtrFS driver support in windows, somebody suggests me to work like ...
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Can I save a VM Image on an SD Card?
I'm working with a VM Image in VirtualBox. Can I save it to an SD card and boot it from there? Can I save two machines on the SD Card?
Will VirtualBox put all files, related to the Images on that SD ...
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How can I increase disk space allocated to my VirtualBox VM?
The basics:
I'm running windows and have a VritualBox VM running Ubuntu 12.04 on top of that. I need to increase the disk space allocated from 8 GB to 12 GB. I'm trying to follow along with these ...
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Removing hyper-v and then installing again
I have Windows 8 machine with Hyper-V enabled. I have a few VMs with SharePoint installed.
I want to install VMWare but it won't allow me to since Hyper-V is enabled on this machine. So I want to ...
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Assign static IP's for each VM's in Hyper-V
I have single physical ethernet adapter.Hyper-V V-Switch is configured for external network with that adapter.
Now, I want my several VM has each it's own static IP. How can i achieve that?
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Microsfot Virtual PC 2007 running 3 windows XP VMs on Dual monitors. VM screens freeze on each screen after twenty minutes
I am currently running three VMs on Microsfot Virtual PC 2007. After about twenty minutes the screen freezes where it is at and will not continue until I move the window the the other monitor. But ...
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To keep web application and database on different VMs? [closed]
I have an Analytics Database (star design in SQL server 2008) and a web application (ASP.NET) that gets data from the DB and renders various reports and charts (MS Charts). They run from the same VM ...
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VMware Player 5.0.2: Hide full screen menu?
I'm trying to find a way to permanently hide the VMware menu bar when running in full screen mode. For earlier versions one could add pref.vmplayer.fullscreen.nobar = “TRUE” in the preferences file, ...
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VMWARE - I installed vmware tools but cannot find vmware-toolbox
I have a windows host and a linux (ubuntu) guest.
Versions:
HOST - Windows 7
GUEST - Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
VMWARE TOOLS installed (output from vmware-toolbox-cmd -v): 9.2.0.15626 (build-799703)
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How should I tune my VM based build machine for better performance
We've migrated our physical build machines to (Ubuntu 10.04 x86) VMs for the purposes of redundancy and ease of duplication. However I'm seeing very disappointing performance with the builds. Looking ...
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Lightweight DNS server for learning - what do you advice? [closed]
I would like to set up a DNS server in my virtual network. I have never done it before. I don1T know how to do it, and I have problem with OS selection. I want to set up local dns server (like ...
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VM 9.0 with windows server 2008 data center hangs when restarting it
I have installed VM workstation 9 on my windows 7 64x, my environment specification are as follow:
windows 7 professional 64x
32 GB RAM
670 GB hard disk
VM workstation 9
create a new VM and I mount ...
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Building virtual infrastructure - how to start? [closed]
I am building up a virtual infrastructure in vmware workstation, and I don't know how to start. (I am university student, so I have dreamspark licenses and these stuff. The aim of this infrastructure ...
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This virtual machine is configured for 64-bit guest operating systems. However, 64-bit operation is not possible
I have windows 7 64x professional Laptop , then i download a new VM on it , but when i try to mount an ISO imag for windows server 2008 i got the following error :_
**This virtual machine is ...
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How to remove virtualbox VM with snapshots?
I have a VM with many snapshots. I don't need this machine anymore, and I need disk space. Snapshots eat a significant amount of disk space.
But when I try to delete it by VirtualBox means - there is ...
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Debian Wheezy - VMWare Player and Gnome3
I have installed Debian Wheezy in VMWare Player 5.0.2 build-1031769 and all is fine. Except the "Failed to load Gome3" messages keep on coming. This is what I did so far:
Installed VMWare Tools ...
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Which version is most recommended to install for Parallels on a new MacBook Pro? [closed]
Which version is most recommended to install for Parallels on a new MacBook Pro?
I will use it for Office support.
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Multiple VM's one VHD
Is there a way to mount one VHD (or other disk image alike) between multiple Virtual Machines. I don't mean OS Image, just like a shared disk drive. I know I can have a file-server smb like share. ...
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Move an updated virtual Server 2008 (VmWare Workstation 7) from c:\Old\VirtualMachines\Server2008 to d:\New\VirtualMachines\Server2008 on windows 7
How do you move an updated Server 2008 VmWare Workstation 7 from c:\VirtualMachines\Server2008 to d:\VirtualMachines\Server2008 on windows 7.
I moved all the files and created a new Virtual Machine. ...
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How can I use my Logitech G15 keyboard macros with multiple guest VMs?
I am using 6 VMs running a game for farm. VM Workstation 9 with Windows 7 as host and Win XP Pro as Guest
My keyboard is a Logitech G15 and it’s able to do macros which I want to use for those 6 ...
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Ubuntu Server with win2k8 Server VM to Host IIS Site Issue
I have a ubuntu server(host), and a windows 2008 r2 server(client) virtual machine on it.
All my IIS based sites are located on the host machine, in a location which is shared with the client vm.
I ...
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Allow multiple users to simultaneously access different Virtual Machines created in Virtual Box installed in Ubuntu
I want to setup a Ubuntu Virtual Box having different Windows version, and allow multiple users to remotely access the desired window machine from their own Ubuntu Installation simultaneously.
I've ...
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Forward port from guest to host
How can I forward port from Guest (OS on virtual box) to Host (my actual machine)?
Guest - Windows 7
Host - Ubuntu 12.10
On my host, I run a web-server on port 3000.
I want to be able to open a ...
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Installing Windows 8 on virtual machine giving error
Well I've a pretty complicated hardware and software combination, so I am explaining the background first. I have a Macbook pro mid 2012 model with OSX Mountain Lion. I am dual booting it with Windows ...
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VirtualBox, multiple OpenVPN connections and network config
We are setting up a system for software acceptance testing. The test computers will run Win7 or Win Server 2003 R2. The test computers will have multiple VirtualBox VMs on which the programs under ...
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Ubuntu SSH communcation
I have installed to 2 Ubuntu on VMware and i m trying to communicate between 2 machines using ssh.
I made the following changes
Updated the etc/host files on 2 machines Master and Slave with ips
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How do I setup DNS names and static IPs for an Ubuntu virtualbox?
I have Ubuntu installed on VirtualBox, on top of a Windows 8 host. How can I setup a static IP and DNS name for this virtual machine that other virtual machines will see?
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Windows 7 64-bit stops sharing of Internet connection with VMware virtual machine
First of all I'm using VMware Workstation, which has it's own Internet connection sharing implemented, but I don't want to use it, as it does not implement the full stack. Things like tracing packet ...
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Windows 7 VirtualBox image won't boot and I can't boot in safe mode
I am trying to load a Virtualbox VM using a VHD file that was provided to me. The VHD contains an image for our dev environment on a Windows 7 OS. The wrinkle is that when I try to start up the VM, ...
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Can I run multiple virtual machines at once?
I would like to run three virtual machines on my windows 7 computer. I would like them all to be windows 7 virtual machines. I see that there are many ways to make a virtual machine, the easiest I ...
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Maintain and sync a VirtualBox VM between two separate computers
I have a VirtualBox VM that has a project I'm working on. I'd like to be able to use this VM on two separate computers, so I can work on it where I happen to be at that time. I've seen answers on ...
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What is VMM Overhead?
I am studying Virtualization. And the very first thing i got stuck on, is Virtual Machine Monitor Overhead. I read somewhere: Why not to virtualise - Virtualization Overhead. And that it is most of ...
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Is it possible to boot a single Linux installation from both inside a VM and as host?
What I am thinking about is, that I'd install a linux on a hard drive to boot it normally. In addition to that, I'd create a VM on Windows, that would use the same raw mapped hard drive.
That way I ...
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Resize VHD for use in VPC
Created a VHD from a machine using disk2vhd.
File created is 61GB, partition on the VHD is set to 149GB.
Virtual PC won't let me use the VHD (as the partition is too large, has to be below 127GB).
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Network access virtualbox linux guest from linux host
I've tried countless settings, read Virtualbox forums and googled for more hours than I'd like to admit.
What I want to accomplish is simply to be able to ssh into the guest and be able to view ...
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How do I run a virtual machine using the host IP address?
I want my VM to be assigned the IP address of the host.
My VM (Ubuntu OS 12.04 LTS) is installed inside my Windows 7 host machine. When I connect the host to the network, it is assigned an IP address ...
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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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Webmin fails to restore VM over FTP
I have a number of XEN VMs running on a single server. I manage them with Cloudmin/Webmin and have scheduled daily system backups. The backups are performed by Cloudmin and are stored on a remote ...
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Ubuntu on Hyper-V vs Virtualbox
I currently run Lubuntu inside Virtualbox on top of OSX (an iMac). For my purposes (Linux software development), this works fine.
Recently, I have been considering getting a Win8 Pro box.
If I want ...
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“the cpu has been disabled by the guest operating system”:VMWARE(win7-64 hosted) error
Every time, when I use vmware to run fedora system, it announces "
The cpu has been disabled by the guest operating system.
you will need to power off or reset the virtual machine at this point
How ...
