A virtual machine is an emulation of a guest operating system, running on virtualized hardware within a host operating system.
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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 ...
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virtualized debian 6 with slim,openbox and open-vm-tools
X-windows is up&running in the guest, but in order to have full integration (dnd,clipboard, autofit client etc) I have to manually run:
vmware-user-suid-wrapper
After this, the integration ...
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Caps Lock key not working in VMware Player
I am running Ubuntu 10.04 as a guest on VMware Player on Win 7. Recently I noticed that the Caps Lock key has no effect in the VM. SHIFT key works fine in capitalizing the typed keys.
How can I make ...
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If I virtualise my work laptop can I use both the virtualised and physical instances [closed]
I'm quite keen to virtualise my work laptop so that I can leave my work device in my bag when I get home and fire up my much nicer and more powerful home PC to continue my work. I know this isn't a ...
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How can I get qemu's Ctrl+Alt keys working in -curses mode?
So here's the situation; I currently have qemu installed on an OpenBSD 5.3 snapshot. This is a console setup so I have to either run with -curses or -nographic. The problem here is that I'm having ...
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prevent login from other users
I'm using some virtual machines remotely, and during this other users may log in to same machine that I currently use, which will log me out.
I want to ask if there is any way or tool to prevent other ...
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Virtual Box ssh not working on Virtual Box Ubuntu machine
I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed, and 12.04 Server set up in my virtual machine.
My VM has internet access, and I can ping it from my host.
ping symfony.dev # points to 192.168.56.101, and successful ...
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Can't connect to azure mysql server in virtual machine
I have an Azure virtual machine holding an Ubuntu system, with MySQL server and I want to access the database from a web application.
When I installed mysql-server, I executed
$ iptables -I INPUT -p ...
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normal OS boot and virtual boot in windows as vhd
Is it possible to install e.g. ubuntu on a vhd in virtualbox and boot it normally at the pc start or start it as a virtual machine in Windows 8 or Win7?
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ping using mac addresses or link local ipv6 addresses
I have 4 Virtual Machines (Ubuntu 12.04) running on a host that is also running Ubuntu 12.04.
The Virtual Machines are named:
switch-vm
vm-1
vm-2
vm-3
Below are the network settings on switch-vm:
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Can I put Windows Server 2012 onto VirtualBox on Windows XP?
If I have a PC running Windows XP SP3 32 bit on which VirtualBox is installed, could I install Windows Server 2012 in VirtualBox as it requires 64 bit?
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Is it possible to connect to a VPN (that lets more than one connection to it) on multiple sessions with one PC?
I have a VPN account that lets me to connect to it simultaneously on multiple devices.
For example I can connect to it using both my laptop and mobile phone and yet each of them has the speed as ...
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External Exchange Environment with pfSense appliance - 1 or 2 needed?
I am testing Exchange Replication and have set up a test environment.
All servers are VMs running on one VM host server with internal networking configured.
A pfSense appliance is connected to the ...
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Enabling “execute disable” (XD) bit disables hardware assisted virtualization
My System Config
MB: Asus P8Z77 V-Pro
CPU: Intel Core i7 - 3770 @ 3.4Ghz
OS: Windows 8 Pro (64 bit)
I am trying to use Virtual Box to install Ubuntu 12.10. But the installer failed to launch and ...
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Running an ubuntu server VM on a windows home server - viable?
I've been pondering the idea of building a home server for a while now. I want linux for development, but I want windows for streaming files (subsonic, plex, etc). So, I figure I can just create an ...
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Is there a way to use an external computer's compiler and fetch results?
I have to use Windows 7 for some reason, but sometimes I need to compile and execute simple programs using C language, which are supposed to work in Linux. All of them are console applications, don't ...
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Print from Win98 vm to a printer on host that does not have 98 support
Well I managed to fit the whole question in the title.
My printer does not have Win98 support. Is there a way to print to a printer on the host that does not support windows 98?
I am using ...
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Antivirus for my virtual machine [duplicate]
I have a home computer with Windows 7 64-bit Pro installed. For nearly all of what I do, this setup works great, but I have some web applications which won't work. I've experimented and discovered ...
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VM program which stores directly on HDD
I'm looking for a VM program like VMware, LXC, or KVM, which stores the whole hard drive of the guest OS on the host HDD.
LXC for instance does this, it stores in ...
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Unable to connect to libvirt on Virtual Machine Manager on Ubuntu 12.10
I'm trying to install a Windows 8 VM using KVM and the Virtual Machine Manager GUI. Upon installing KVM and VMM, and starting VMM I get the error Unable to connect to libvirt.
Verify that:
- The ...
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Connect to other pcs on the network from my VM
I'm running a Windows XP VM on my pc using VirtualBox using NAT configuration.
I can access the internet but unable to access any of the other PCs on the network.
One thing I noticed is my physical pc ...
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How do I install Linux drivers for my network card on a virtual machine?
I have an X64 OS and I am running Linux on a virtual machine.
My question is, how do I install Linux drivers for my network card on the virtual machine?
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converting a Virtualbox image to Xenserver [closed]
How can I use my virtualbox image in a Xenserver 6 or above? I mean is there a way to import the image to Xenserver? Secondly is there anyway we can import vmware image to Xenserver without using ...
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Temporary use a physical HDD with preinstalled Windows as a Virtual Machine
The situation is this:
A friends computer broke and the repair takes 2-8 weeks. I removed the HDD before he sent it to the vendor so he can at least access the data on it while his main computer is ...
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Reducing cache waste in Windwows VMs
At Is there a way to reset Windows file cache? we learnt how to use RamMap to free up the all-you-can-eat Windows file cache, which was nice.
Am I the only person to think that reducing cache sizes ...
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Built installation usb key from linux virtual machine
I have a virtual machine I'd like to install as real os on my machine.
As I have refit installed on my macbook air (Mac os, windows and ubuntu), I tried the clonezilla methode in order to overwrite ...
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Fastest way to create 50 VM Clones in VirtualBox
For test purposes, we would like to create 50 clones from a single master. In general, what would be the fastest, simplest way to do this?
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Is it good practice to have a vhd inside a vhd?
I have a virtual machine running windows server 2008 x64 r2 and I have attached a vhd as local hdd for full backup of the machine.
The vhd is located on a network file share hosted on another ...
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How to change hostname via kernel command line on ubuntu 12
I booted a guest vm on xen, and I want to assign guest-domU's hostname in config file.
like this
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extra='ip=::::myguest-vm-hostname::dhcp'
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It is a kernel command line to setting netboot ...
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Share VirtualBox VDI between computers over network
I have been working inside a Windows7 virtual machine using VirtualBox installed on my Windows7 OS on my primary PC. I would like to share that VM on my home network so that I can access the same VM ...
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Web browser in virtual machine spawns error on host machine
I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 in VmWare Player, and my host machine is running Windows 7 x64. I was browsing the Web from within the virtual machine, and somehow the site I was visiting tried to infect my ...
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VirtualBox optimization
I have Ubuntu 64-bit machine (2 core, 4GB RAM, not Core i(3/5/7).
It's running 64-bit VirtualBox.
Inside of VirtualBox runs Windows 7.
Inside Windows 7 runs one pretty heavy .NET program.
All this ...
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VMPlayer processor allocation
I am using very often VMPlayer. (If you don't know what VMPlayer is, quit...)
I am quite interested how processors are used by VMs. As we, users of VMPlayer, already know, giving RAM to VM, means the ...
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Assign processors to Hyper V host machine optimally [closed]
We have a Intel Core i7-3632QM CPU (4 Cores, 8 Threads, 8 Symbols in device manager) on a host machine with Windows 8.
We have a single Hyper V virtual machine with Windows Server 2012.
How do we ...
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Backtrack install in vm workstation
I am trying to install Linux Backtrack 5 R3 using VM Workstation on my Microsoft Windows Vista PC. I have installed BT5 on dual boot using a live cd on a laptop before but i am encountering this issue ...
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What could be the reason for php-pear being so slow on my local Ubuntu VM?
I got an Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (Beta) VirtualBox VM running and connect to it via SSH. When using "pear install" and try to install "phing/phing" from "http://pear.phing.info/" it takes ages for the ...
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Do virtual machines need a paging file?
I have read this, which has confused me a little:
Virtual Machines require physical not virtual memory so you do not need to count the memory allocated to your VM's when calculating your paging ...
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Can I create a Virtual Machine image using MS Virtual PC and load it into Parallels/VirtualBox
As title really... I want to install Windows on a VM created in Virtual PC on my Windows7 PC, and be able to run it using Parallels or VirtualBox on my Mac.
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How to copy file from Ubuntu 12.10 to a Debian running in VMplayer 5.0
I just want to copy one tar file from my host os (Ubuntu 12.10) to the OS running in VMplayer (Debian 6).
The version I am using is VMware player 5.0.2 the free non-commercial one.
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Can I share a VM between Parallels on Windows and Parallels on Mac?
I suspect the answer to this question will be 'no,' but I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
I use Parallels Desktop on my Mac to run a small CentOS installation for development work. I own Parallels ...
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Setting Hostname as IP on Linux for Hadoop VM
How can I have an Ubuntu server VM set /etc/hostname/ to the value fo the VM's assigned IP address automatically on startup?
I'm creating an Ubuntu server VM image to run Hadoop. When a client ...
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Canon CanoScan LiDE 20 drivers for Windows 7 x64
Trying to set this scanner up on Windows 7 on my machine.
The options are:
Purchase VueScan (Not interested in using VueScan to resolve this issue)
Try using a Virtual Machine with XP and ...
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Can't access my computer after installing VirtualBox on it
There was a similar question 2 years ago, but everyone confused guest/host OS.
After installing VirtualBox on my Windows 7 box, I can no longer ping it or access it from anywhere within the LAN. ...
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Shared virtual machines across different hosts (different CPUs etc)
I have tried searching the web, but all I find are people dual booting OSes on the same computer and wanting to share VMs across the different OSes.
What I have is a desktop (core i7 IvyBridge,16 GB ...
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SQL Server Continues to Swap RAM After Using a Virtual Machine
I have a dev computer running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, with 8GB of RAM. As I write code and use the database, SQL Server will use more-and-more RAM (which ...
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Mapped Network Drives not available in Citrix application depending on local machine
It's simpler than the title suggests.
When I log into a remote application via Citrix XenApp from Box A (Windows XP) and Box B (Windows 7) I can see all local physical disks and locally mapped ...
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Hyper-V Virtualisation Disabled in Firmware
I'm on windows 8 and i've been trying to use hyper-v to set-up a virtual machine.
When I go into the "Turn Windows Features On or Off" the box to select Hyper-V platform, it is grayed out and when I ...
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Access localhost with domain alias via VM
I have a local development environment that I have setup using MAMP on OSX, on the default Apache and MySQL ports (80 and 3306).
In the hosts file I have setup custom domains for my sites, eg.
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