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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 get file sharing (/mnt/c) to work for wsl linux VM running on Window-11

I have successfully got a Linux VM working on my Windows-11. However when I start either Ubuntu or Debian session I get the following error: WSL2-Linux-Kernel:linux-msft-wsl and once logger on /mnt/c ...
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Mangled fonts in GUI applications on Debian 11

I have a pretty fresh Debian 11 installation, running in a VirtualBox VM on Windows 10. The fonts in question look as if each glyph has many missing parts / as if the visible parts, such as they are, ...
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VirtualBox Linux Guest Mac Host runs really slow

I have performance issues in VirtualBox, the quest operating system runs really slow and laggy. The configuration: Host: MBP 2019, 2.3 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9, 16 GB RAM, MacOS Sonoma 14.2 Guest: ...
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Create a shortcut for the guest OS (VMware)

Is it possible to create a desktop shortcut for the guest OS in VMware and use it to launch the guest OS directly without opening VMware? I'm using VMware Workstation Player on Windows 11
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Error cloning virtual machine: A specified parameter was not correct: spec.pool

I want to create a VM on VSphere with OpenTofu but was met with some problems. After creating an ubuntu image, I received an error when attempting to create VM using the image with said message: &...
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How to connect a physical Windows PC to a virtual PFSense router that runs on a virtual GNS3 network

I’m attempting to access a virtual PFsense devices web GUI that resides on a GNS3 virtual network, from my physical windows PC (where GNS3 is installed on). On the GNS3 VM I have ensured that the ...
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Issue with 802.1q VLAN on VMs in bridge mode with Wi-Fi interface

My environment is a router with OpenWRT, a laptop connected to the router via patch cable and an untagged VLAN with VID 5 configured on that port in the router, and a MacBook M1 Pro connected via Wi-...
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Installed Nox on Windows 10, which uninstalled WSL2 and thus my Ubuntu VMs. Are they VMs recoverable?

On windows 10. I was unaware WSL2 was tethered to Hyper-V. I installed Nox which said it needed to disable Hyper-V. It did, and asked for a reboot. When I tried to run my WSL2 via terminal it is ...
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disk util is very high + what the proactive steps we can do in order to minimize it

Our Kafka cluster includes 12 VM RHEL 7.6 machines. machine spec details: CPU(s):14 Kafka disk is VMDK disk. ( sdb disk) RAM 48G When Kafka cluster is working hard (when injection data to Kafka ...
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Audio lagging when no screen updates are happening in VirtualBox?

I've got a VirtualBox VM on Arch Linux running Mac OS X 10.6, and when it plays audio, if my cursor is still and nothing on the guest display is moving/updating, the audio starts lagging. If I shake ...
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Put VM on real hardware

I've just bought a new PC. My old one has 16GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD. I want to turn it into an NAS server. I have put Windows Server 2022 into a virtual machine, and configured everything to my liking ...
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How to configure a traffic route from VM1 through Host to VM2

I'm using Virtualbox for VM's Ubuntu 20.04. My task is to configure the network in such a way that traffic from VM1 passes through Host (Windows 10) and then to VM2, as well as in the opposite ...
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Error: Your CPU does not support required features (VT-x or SVM)

I would like to create some applications in React Native and I'm having problems with my PC that force me to use a virtual machine to code. I've chosen Oracle VM VirtualBox with Ubuntu for my virtual ...
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Kali Linux VM stuck on installation

I am trying to set up Kali Linux on VirtualBox but it is stuck in the 'Select and Install Software' step. The progress bar shows that it is nearly completed, but it has been stuck on 'Unpacking ...
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same ip range and subnet in 2 different bridges

I am trying to create 2 different virtual networks in the same ip range (not using NAT) in virt manager.Doesn't work with the gui or editing the xml of the new virtual network . Is the best way to ...
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Virtual Machine Bridge Network on Wifi not working AT OFFICE

I'm now experiencing VMs for serving my company project which I need to install and config some application on server. I need the VM have the same IP subnet as mine so that I can ssh to VM. To achieve ...
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Linux guest in VirtualBox restarts session after Win11 host wakes from sleep

I've recently transferred my VM from an old Win10 laptop to a new Win11 one and encountered very annoying issue: If I close my laptop, making it go to sleep, and when wake it up after some time, my ...
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How to convert multiple img files to a vdi?

I have a .vdi file which contains 3 .img files as seen in this picture: image I have extracted these .img files and modified them, now I'm trying to convert them back to a .vdi file. If call the ...
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How to configure linux guest that will have dynamic space , did set 25.00 GB virtual size but it keep running out of space

Virtual box Version 7.0.8 r156879 (Qt5.15.2) on windows , i configured ubuntu as guest OS on windows VB , all working good , i was thinking that if i set virtual size to 25g it will be enough . But it ...
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Iptables redirect outside requests to 127.0.0.1 (VirtualBox)

I have a virtual machine installed with the output: ifconfig: enp0s3: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 10.0.2.15 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.2.255 inet6 fe80::...
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QEMU VM guest with no network in bridge mode on Arch Linux

I try to create a network bridge mode with my QEMU VM guest in Arch Linux using systemd-networkd. First, I create bridge mode in Arch Linux: # nano /etc/systemd/network/br0.netdev [NetDev] Name=br0 ...
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Router not detecting VM Internal IP address

Details: Host OS: Windows 11 Home Guest OS: Windows 10 Pro VirtualBox Ver: 7.0.12 Network Type: Bridge Adapter Router: Netgear I am new to VirtualBox and networking in general. I am trying to setup ...
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Configure Virtualbox to capture network traffic between 2 VMs on the same host from another physical machine

My context is: A physical machine with windows 10 (PC_Physcial_01) that host 2 virtualbox linux VMs PC_VM_01 & PC_VM_02) An other physical machine dedicated to sniff network traffic (...
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How to assess the actual power (and whether mapped 1:1 to physical host CPU) of virtualized VM CPUs?

We have been provided with 1 virtualized Windows VM machine with 24 2.8 Ghz processors. I want to check whether all 24 cores on the VM are actually mapped to 24 dedicated physical CPU cores. I want to ...
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Specific network card configuration on vm with vmware

I need to configure a vm (fedora) in vmware workstation statically configuring its virtual network card to use physical wifi card rather than ethernet card. I'm going to use both physical cards at the ...
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Container or VM for testing Windows software applications

I’m looking for some suggestions on how I can test some software applications without committing to installing them on my main OS. I thought a virtual machine would be a good idea, but then I found ...
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How do I install WSL on a Windows guest inside VirtualBox

I am following the steps to install WSL on Windows 10 guest machine inside of VirtualBox. And currently I am facing this issue - it seems I cannot install Ubuntu Linux with WSL on a Windows 10 guest ...
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How USB redirection works on Remote Machine using RDP ( RemoteFX)

I am a newbie in Remote/cloud technology. I would appreciate your guide. I want to use a USB Device on a Remote virtual machine (Windows 10 Enterprise Edition) plugged into my local Windows 10 ...
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Install a 32-bit distro on WSL 2

I work on a Win10x64 PC and I need a native 32-bit Linux environment. I try to do so in a WSL2 VM. I don't want to compile with -m32 and then run a 32-bit binary on a 64-bit system. I want a VM where ...
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Why USB device Serial number string of Device Instance ID changes on Windows Virtual machine lead a device enumeration issue

We have a USB-based device that is plugged-in on a Windows 10 machine. Following is the Device Instance ID of the plugged-in USB device under Device Manager: USB\VID_XXXX&PID_XXXX\SSSSSSSSS-...
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Windows server IP address

Currently, I'm using Oracle Virtual Box 7.0.12. My Windows 10 Server has a static IP address of 192.168.10.10/24. The roles I added were Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, and IIS services. However, it is ...
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How to run a Mac OS VM on an Intel Mac?

I'm a developer and some of my users experience issues on older Mac OS versions. I would like to test my app on an older version of Mac OS using my Intel Mac. I think the only solution is using a ...
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Virtualbox VBoxGuestAdditions stuck at 100% on Windows 11 & 10 VM

Virtualbox VBoxGuestAdditions stuck at 100% on Windows 11 & 10 VM Problem I am trying to resize the screen on a Windows 11 VM on Virtualbox and I am having trouble with adding the ...
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AMD GPU pass-through doesn't work on Windows 7 (even though NVIDIA works)

I have a multi-gpu VM setup (Nvidia GTX 970 and AMD RX 6600) with Windows 7, Windows 10, macOS virtual machines. I pass GPU directly to a guest operating system (isolate from host-os and pass them ...
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VMWare Workstation Keyboard and Mouse stop working

I'm having a problem with vmware and keyboard/mouse detection and I'm hoping that you can help me. I use an Oracle vm and sometimes (worryingly enough) I can't write with the keyboard or click with ...
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How to customize resolution on Ubuntu virtual machine (VirtualBox) that parasitizes a Windows host machine?

I don't know if Ubuntu detects the available resolutions but I know that VirtualBox can resize depending on machine resolution. The ideal resolution would be 1900x980 but I tried others too (like ...
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Unable to connect to postgres installed as docker image in ubuntu vm in virtualbox from host psAdmin

i installed postgres on ubuntu vm on using virtualbox the host is windows 10 umen@umen:~$ docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS ...
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"insert guest additions cd image..." does not do anything

I am using the latest version of VirtualBox (7.0.12) and the latest version of Ubuntu image (v22.04.3). I installed the Ubuntu Virtual machine by checking the "skip unattended Installation" ...
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Why does NAT not work for all hosts in subnet?

Network noob here. I am creating an emulated network for malware analysis. This means, I need to have one "real" host (VM) that is connected to the emulated network. My setup so far consists ...
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Unable to play most games on Android QEMU VM on Linux Mint

So I wanted to set up an android emulator to play Arknights on a Linux Mint desktop machine. I have libvirtd and I use virt-manager to handle my VMs. I set up both a Android-x86 9 and Android-x86 8.1 ...
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Virtualbox crops the screen

I'm running a VM on virtualbox and it crops the screen. Only the left half of the console is visible, it cuts off somewhere in the middle of the line. Changing the window size doesn't help, as the &...
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Keyboard layout completely messed up - running a VM on a server

I am connected to a vnc server and am viewing it using a vnc viewer. On the vnc server, there is a VM. Both the vnc server and the VM are running the latest version of Ubuntu. My computer's keyboard ...
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Is there any way to run No-GUI Ubuntu Server in VM(Windows host), and run GUI Linux apps rendered in Windows?

Title. Is it possible to render the GUI on the host: Windows, when the backend part is provided by Ubuntu Server running in VM? So that we have both Full fledged Windows and Linux at the same time.
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Virtual Box and ExpressVPN

I have been trying to solve this issue for 3 weeks now, is there a way I can use ExpressVPN network only to access a Virtual Machine? And if that connection failed for some reason it will not switch ...
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How to Reach QEMU VM's with IP Address (Optionally Static)?

Situation I have two QEMU KVMs (named master and worker, respectively) running on my laptop. The VMs use the headless server edition of Ubuntu 22.04, and the laptop is running Mint. Goal I want three ...
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How to access addresses 127.0.0.1-127.0.0.10 on a server running in VirtualBox

I need to query specific IP addresses 127.0.0.1-127.0.0.10 in the VirtualBox virtual machine (windows 10 installed) from the host. Example: Host IP: 192.168.1.1 Virtual machine IP: 192.168.1.2 The ...
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I am trying to enable Virtual Machine Platforms feature but it gives error. I tried enabling it through cmd but still it gives an error. Error:14003

I am running Windows 11 64 bit. I tried enabling it through the command dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestart but it could not enable. It failed even ...
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WSL failed to start after shrinked using wslcompact

Is there any way to fix after WSL failed to start when compacted using wslcompact (https://github.com/okibcn/wslcompact/) Error received is The operation timed out because a response was not received ...
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Can I configure an OpenSUSE VM application then trigger the OOBE?

I'd like to be able to configure (e.g. install applications, provision files, perhaps configure some settings for) an OpenSUSE virtual machine, but then "reset" some aspects so that when I ...
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How to use ExpressVPN inside virtual box using "Bridged Adapter"

ExpressVPN has an option called split tunnel which can connect only certain applications to the VPN network, I have tried it and it worked, but the problem is: 1- I must turn on the VPN on my desktop ...
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