Questions tagged [virtual-machine]
A virtual machine is an emulation of a guest operating system, running on virtualized hardware within a host operating system.
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How to turn a Windows XP partition into a VirtualBox virtual machine?
How can I turn a hard drive with XP into a VirtualBox virtual machine?
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How to create a Windows virtual machine using Hyper-V Manager
I am trying to create a Windows virtual machine using Hyper-V, but I have several issues. I tried following instructions on this page, to use the "Quick Create":
I was ...
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How can I automatically upload code changes on a remote VM
My current works involves working on scripts running on a Ubuntu VM.
For multiple reasons, I'm editing and committing project files on a local computer running Windows, and running them on a remote ...
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Does VMWare Fusion negatively affect system performance?
Since installing Fusion my Mac Pro seems to hang (SPOD) more often even when Fusion isn't running. Has anybody else experienced this? My Mac Pro never used to display the SPOD at all but now it ...
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How can I shrink my VMware image?
I created an image of a Windows Server 2008 system using the free VMware Player and set the maximum hard drive size to 100GB. I then gave those image files - 30GB at the time - to a server hosting ...
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Can't access VMware virtual machine through SSH
I have got a VMware Server 2 on a CentOS 5.6 host. I can access my virtual machines from the host machine, but I can not access it from other machines.
I have configured NAT port forwarding. But ...
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What happens to the license when a Windows VM is deleted?
I'm considering purchasing a Windows 10 PC, but would probably want only to run Windows in a VM on the original hardware.
However, it's not inconceivable that I might delete the VM, or even format ...
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BSOD trying to migrate Windows XP from a physical to a virtual machine
I am attempting to migrate a Windows XP Home installation from a physical machine to a virtual machine. The physical machine has two hard disks; the first is 250GB containing the "C:", the second is ...
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How to move VirtualBox files?
By default VirtualBox stores all data in a directory below the home directory. I know how to change it but how can I change the location of existing images (without editing VirtualBox.xml manually)?
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Hyper-V vs Virtual Machine Platform vs Windows Hypervisor Platform settings in Programs and Features? [closed]
Windows 10 shows these three separate features that seem to be the same thing or related.
Hyper-V (note that in latest Windows 10 version this has disappeared from the "Windows Features" ...
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Use NVidia GPU from VirtualBox?
How do I make the VirtualBox guest use the NVidia graphics?
Host setup:
Windows 7 x64
NVidia Optimus
In NVIDIA Control Panel, I explicitly selected High-performance NVIDIA processor
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C:\...
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Change MacOS X guest screen resolution for VirtualBox
I have tried all alternatives and resources that I found on internet to achieve to change screen resolution in my MacOS X guest. I have the latest VirtualBox version (4.1.22) and I have MacOS X 10.6.3 ...
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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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Unable to disable Hyper-V in Windows 10
Hi I installed Docker for Windows which enabled Hyper-V on my windows 10 machine.
Unfortunately this caused Virtual Box to not work anymore, therefore I removed Docker again, but Hyper-V is still ...
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Can I "transfer" my Windows 7 license to a virtual machine running on the same computer?
I've read the blog post on license transfer, but I'm not clear in the case where I already have a licensed, activated copy of Windows 7 running on my PC but want to move that license to a VM running ...
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Get official Windows XP virtual machine for Hyper-V
There are many unofficial Windows XP ISO file in numerous of websites. So to create a Windows XP virtual machine, one has to download that ISO and make that virtual hard disk manually. Is there a way ...
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Is it possible to set up a bare-metal hypervisor on my laptop?
Say I had a Core i7 Laptop with 16GB of RAM and a 750gb drive.
Is there a mechanism where I can partition the HD into a Linux, Windows, OS X, Shared Data, Hypervisor setup where I boot a small ...
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How do I find the IP address of a virtual machine using VMware Fusion?
Can I determine the IP of a virtual machine using VMware Fusion without actually entering the operating system running on the virtual machine? I'm looking for a menu option, command line, or otherwise ...
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Dedicated Mouse and Keyboard on VirtualBox VM
Currently I am trying to run VirtualBox on my second monitor, with a dedicated mouse and keyboard. However, doing so has not proven easy. There has been times where the mouse works, but not the ...
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Is there an optimal setting for the number of CPU cores exposed to a VM?
VirtualBox, and possibly other VM software, allows the user to specify the number of CPUs exposed to the VM. In my particular case, I have a dual core CPU, with Windows 7 64-bit running natively, and ...
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Warning "You are currently using the RemoteFX 3D Video Adapter"
I have received warning popup box "You are currently using the RemoteFX 3D Video Adapter. We no longer support this adapter ..." after I installed new graphic card.
I tried to open link ...
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Can I fix corrupted vmdk image? VERR_VD_VMDK_INVALID_HEADER
I suffered host crash when running guest OS with VirtualBox. Now the VM won't start and complain that:
Could not open them medium '[file.vmdk]` VMDK: inconsistency between
grain table and backup ...
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Should I split VMware virtual disk into multiple files or not?
I'm using VMware Workstation 12 to create Win7 virtual machine that I can use it on Linux for programs like Photoshop and After Effects.
VMware is asking for this option to split virtual machine ...
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How to easily port VirtualBox machines?
I have used VMware for a long time.
VMware saves all the information for one machine in one directory.
This means it is easy to zip and copy.
Now I switched to VirtualBox.
VirtualBox seems to save ...
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Can Windows Virtual PC run a 64-bit OS?
I'm running Windows Virtual PC (RC) on a Windows 7 (RTM) 64-bit host. When I create a new virtual machine and try to install 64-bit Windows 7 on that VM, I get "this CPU is not compatible with 64-bit ...
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Emulate fake monitor on Windows 7?
Is there a way to emulate a monitor on Windows 7?
I have one physical monitor, and I want Windows to think I have two. I actually don't care whether the second monitor is visible anywhere, or if ...
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Is it possible to split VirtualBox Hard Drive to multiple volumes?
VirtualBox hard drive usually has one or a few files when you create a drive. I think it is good because you manage only a few files. However, I have out of space of my drive. Is it possible to span ...
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Convert Parallels VM to Virtual Box VM?
The question describes well what I need but here are some more details about the circumstances.
With Parallels Desktop 4 running under Linux, I have a number of Windows 7 Virtual Machines. Sadly, ...
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How to create a virtual machine from a .img disk image?
I downloaded a disk image used for a wargame hosted by stripe, but I cant figure out how to create a virtual machine from this image.
I'm using virtualbox, but I could use another tool if it would be ...
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Quad Core host with hyper-threading, how many processors to configure in VirtualBox?
I have a quad-core i7 processor with hyperthreading (8 logical cores), when I configured a virtual machine to use 8 processors, VirtualBox gave me a warning saying that I only have four cores (which ...
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Why won't my mapped drive persist for elevated user after reboot?
This is related to this issue: Command Prompt in Administrator mode doesn't see mapped drives
I'm needing to run a program (InstallShield) as an elevated user, but this program also needs to ...
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why does Virtualbox use 15-20% CPU when VM is paused?
I run VirtualBox 3.1 on Ubuntu with a Win XP guest. I have noticed to my surprise that when I pause the VM (its screen grays out) VirtualBox continues using 15-20% of the host's CPU.
Is this normal ...
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Possible to have multiple virtual monitors for a VMware guest in windowed mode?
Using VMware Workstation 10 on Windows, I've read "Use Multiple Monitors for One Virtual Machine" and managed to make it work as described when running the machine in Full Screen mode.
What I would ...
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Run Windows inside a virtual machine on Linux for gaming
Since making the full time move to using Linux (Fedora) from Windows, I've found the migration fairly easy and haven't had much disruption in how I do my work.
However, there are some games I like to ...
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Mouse+Keyboard for each VM? [duplicate]
I'm using VM Ware (specifically the player) and i'd like to attach a multiple mouses and have one for each VM (same idea with keyboard but i havent tried keyboards yet). I'd like several people using ...
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VirtualBox: have higher guest resolution than host resolution
Is there any way to have a guest machine have a huge resolution (like 3000x2000 or something) in VirtualBox? I'd like to be able to move around the desktop by scrolling around. It seems like it would ...
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How to configure static IP address for a Hyper-V VM (Ubuntu 19.10 Quick Create) to avoid updating ssh config after each reboot?
I'm using VS-Code remote development plugin to edit code on a hyper-v VM (which is a Ubuntu 19.10 - quick create) which is running on Windows 10 on my Laptop. The VM uses hyper-v's default switch for ...
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VMware Workstation and Hyper-V are not compatible [duplicate]
I installed VMworkstation on a fresh Windows 10 operating system. When I tried to create any machine I got the following error:
VMware Workstation and Hyper-V are not compatible. Remove the Hyper-V ...
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Resizing VirtualBox's disk size [duplicate]
I have a VM (VirtualBox) and its disk partitions are set up like this:
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 979M 0 979M 0% /dev
tmpfs 200M 24M ...
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Can I backup a running virtualbox Virtual machine?
I am currently running a time consuming python script on a virtual machine(It has been running for ~95 hours at the moment). I have no idea how long it will take to complete and am running it on a VM ...
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VMWare Player slows down computer after exit
After exiting VMWare player, my main OS (Windows 7) lags and slows down tremendously. The HDD is seeking excessively. I see that the issue is that it's swapping tons of pages rapidly. This lasts ...
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How to disable mouse integration in VMware Workstation Player?
My question is similar to How to permanently disable mouse integration in Virtualbox? except it's about VMware Workstation Player instead of VirtualBox.
How do I disable mouse integration? I want the ...
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WSL2 connect to host without disabling the windows firewall
I simply want to connect from my WSL2 Ubuntu installation to my host windows on port 8529.
What I tried:
Disabled my public firewall. This works but is no option.
I added bash, wsl, and the ubuntu ...
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What is the difference between a Java virtual machine and a VMWare VM?
I know that they are both called 'virtual machines', but what is the exact difference?
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How to use multiple virtual monitors if host has a single monitor?
My host has a single physical monitor but I need to reproduce a bug in an application that requires two monitors, each having a different scaling factor.
VMWare provides documentation for cycling ...
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How to run an encrypted virtual machine?
I wonder what is the best practice for storing the virtual machine encrypted. I tried putting the image it a TrueCrypt volume, but it doesn't work nicely:
With the volume unmounted the VirtualBox ...
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Portable virtualization software? [closed]
Does anyone know of any portable virtualization software for Windows that will run from a flash drive and doesn't require administrator privileges?
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Running XP as a virtual machine - suggestions wanted
I want to run a Windows XP virtual machine, and not pay for any licenses (I already have a valid XP license for installing on the VM). What software would you recommend? Tips on performance and ...
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Create disk image of C drive and run on VMware virtual machine
I run Windows XP SP3 Pro on my desktop PC and I want to create an image of its C Drive. I'd like to run this image in a virtual machine on VMware.
How can I do this?
Install XP in VMware first – ...
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How to convert physical Ubuntu operating system into a virtual machine?
A while ago I turned my PC into dual boot with Windows and Ubuntu.
But my experience is, that I rarely boot into Ubuntu, so I wanted to make it available as virtual machine in Windows rather than as a ...
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