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 can I map a directory in Windows 7 to an XP Mode VM directory?
I need to have a separate area within Windows 7 to have a "backup," as it were, of a directory created on a VM (XP Mode). What are the steps to accomplish this?
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Accessing the network through vm and wireless lan card
The problem: Running a guest on a vm and have it access the same network the host accesses through its wireless card. I have a guest running on a vm. Both the host and guest run Ubuntu 12.10 I've ...
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How to Create Virtual USBs on Ubuntu host connected to machines in virtualbox
Two steps to do:
I want to create virtual USB drivers on my Ubuntu host
Then, I want to connect every virtual machine in the virualbox to one of
those virtual USB drivers for copying things between ...
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rdp to vm server on home network over wifi
I have a Win 2008 R2 VM instance running on my desktop. I can RDP to it from the desktop it is on but when I try to RDP it from my laptop on the same wifi connection it comes up with "Server Not ...
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Windows on a virtual disk, apps on a differencing one
I'm new to hyper-v, and I'm wondering how to do the following : I'd like to have an image of fresh install of windows, and create a 'differencing' disk with some apps.
Can I then modify the parent ...
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Trying to run Mac OSX Mountain Lion in a Virtual Machine [closed]
I am trying to run OS X Mountain Lion in a virtual machine inside Windows 7.
I have set virtualization to true in the BIOS and I have successfully virtualized Windows 8.
Are there any other settings ...
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Using NTPD as a client on Cent OS without Undisciplined Local Clock any disadvantage?
The following is the NTP configuration.
My server is a physical system, not a virtual machine.
The following ntp-4.2.2p1-15.el5.centos rpm I am using.
tinker panic 0
restrict default kod nomodify ...
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Can my PC and a dedicated server be on the same machine?
If I had a 500 GB SSD and a 1 TB HDD installed on one computer, could I use the 1 TB HDD as a dedicated server using Linux Mint or Ubuntu Server Edition as the OS?
Then on my 500 GB SSD I could ...
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For a workstation laptop, what should I consider when choosing a host operating system and hypervisor? [closed]
My main workstation is a laptop because I work regularly in about 5 different offices. I am considering using virtualization to gain a few advantages as follows:
A. The ability to efficiently ...
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Dropbox - no lan sync on a virtual machine
Is there any way of making dropbox's lan sync working on a virtual machine ?
Another "dropboxed" machine in the LAN is a standalone PC running *buntu 12.04 amd64, not a VM.
detailed info:
host OS: ...
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Make FTP Server on virtualbox work in passive mode
I have an ubuntu server installed on a virtual box. I installed proftpd in it and forwarded the port 21 (ftp port) from the network settings of the virtual box.
The problem is the ftp client is using ...
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VirtualBox - Disparity between host system hard drive and VDI
I was working on a VirtualBox (4.2.4) VM (Debian Linux 64 bit, using ext3 filesystem, host drive is NTFS) and had a BSOD on the host system while the guest was operating normally.
I had changed a ...
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How can I USB boot a VM in VMWare Workstation 9?
How can I boot a VM off USB in VMWare Workstation 9? I don't see the USB I have attached in the bios boot order.
It's clearly attaching before boot, as this shows up before the VM even starts ...
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1.90 GHz dualcore with Turbo Boost up to 3 GHz - good enough to run VMs? [closed]
http://www.sony.co.uk/product/vn-duo/svd1121z9e
Core i7-3517U 1.90-3.00 GHz dualcore, 8gb RAM, 256Gb SSD
I'm about to buy the above laptop as a demo machine as I need to demo on client site, but I ...
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Can I connect from the real machine to a VPN inside a virtual machine?
I'm using a VPN that runs only on Windows. It's possible to use a virtual machine with Windows and connect the real pc through the virtual machine connection?
I've read about bridged adapter and ...
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resize disk capacity VDI
I use virtualBox version 4.2.6 and I install windows server 2008. the issue is when I was working with this windows a message is displayed said that the capacity of disk is limited. so I want to know ...
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flaky proxy on virtual machine
I have been battling this for several hours and coming stuck.
I use windows XP and a VM box with ubuntu. I have to use the proxy to connect to the internet at work. However I use ubunutu to check ...
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Is a hard drive image of a virtual machines drive applicable on the host machines hard drive
I have installed Ubuntu on the hard drive of my desktop computer.
In Ubuntu I installed VirtualBox to test some Distributions in a virtual machine.
Lets say I like some Distribution while ...
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Getting a VNC or remote desktop to work on an online virtual machine
I just bought on online virtual Mac environment from VirtualMacOSX.com and I have been able to access the virtual machine over FTP through FileZilla. I am trying to use my VM OSX and I think I need ...
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Some VMWare images take long to resume from suspension as compare to others
I am using VMWare Workstation 7.x. I have a few Windows Server 2003 images which I use regularly. They all started with the same image and were created by cloning. There is some difference on the ...
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Ubuntu VM disk error- first went read-only and now won't boot
I have a Ubuntu Server VM on a Mac OS X host. Stupidly, I have no recent snapshot of this VM (let this be a grim reminder to me).
My host was running slowly and erratically- low on RAM. While trying ...
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Access VMs on home server from laptop
I'm new to the concept of virtual machines and want to play around with them in my next project. I want to build a home server that will host various virtual machines.
Can I access these VMs from ...
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New vdisk is not showing on windows vm
I have a windows 7 ultimate machine that has virtualbox. In this virtualbox I have a VM with windows 7 ultimate and a single vdisk. Now I wanted to add a new vdisk using sata controller but this new ...
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Sharing folders between vm and host machine
Trying to use VMware player and VMware workstation.
Host is Windows 7 and VM is Ubuntu 12.10
I have vmtools installed on the vm and went into the settings for the vm to add the folders I want as ...
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Does a virtual machine realise that it is virtual? [closed]
I know that from a design point of view, the idea of a virtual machine is that the entire system environment is replicated so that the virtual machine is in outward appearance a full machine, but my ...
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'top' output baffles me
top - 18:22:21 up 98 days, 23:26, 4 users, load average: 2.73, 2.85, 2.60
Tasks: 210 total, 1 running, 209 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 3.6%us, 2.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 87.7%id, 5.1%wa, ...
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Error “Scanner Model not supported by Epson TWAIN” in XP Mode VM (on Win7-64 Host)?
I have Windows 7 64-bit Professional – specifically professional rather than Home because I was told Virtual Machine (XP Mode) will let me run older devices that previously worked well on XP ...
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Rackspace: is my server the right size? [closed]
I am running a Linux server on Rackspace. How do I know if I am using the right level of resources?
Resources are: number of vCPUs, RAM, disk space, internal and external network interface pipe ...
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having two version of virtual machine
I have virtual machine on PC1. I need to copy it to PC2. That is not a problem. But then I need to make some changes to virtual machine on PC1 and then copy it to PC2. But not overwrite - I need to ...
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Uninstall HyperV integration tools
I can't uninstall HyperV tools from a VM that has been migrated to VMWare : setup won't launch , complaining that it can only run on an HyperV guest.
Is there any other option to remove those tools ?
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Monitor network traffic of my virtual machine through my CentOS Computer
In my CentOS 6.3 computer, I installed a MS Server 2008 through a VirtualBox. Is it possible to monitor the network traffic/activities of my MS Server 2008 in my CentOS? How can I do that?
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How to configure a firewall on Centos using Vagrant and Chef
I've created a server box using Vagrant and Chef and everything is up and running correctly. However, when the box is installed from scratch the default iptables rules are in place and so I need to ...
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How can I run 32-bit Eclipse on 64-bit ubuntu?
I have a customized version of Eclipse which is for 32-bit only. And I've got to run it on 64-bit ubuntu 12.04 LTS. It is not possible to download a standard 64-bit Eclipse or to run a 32-bit VM. Are ...
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CPU required for running virtualization? [closed]
Is there some kind of special CPU i need for running more than 1 virtual machine at the same time?
Is there a difference between AMD and intel?
What sort of memory should i be considering for ...
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How to make a video capture of both a VM Host and running virtual machines?
I have the following configuration:
Windows 8 Hyper-V host;
Windows 8 Guest;
Windows 7 Guest.
What I want to do is a comparison video between Win 7 and Win 8 and how things have changed. For this ...
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Can I use VT-D with a windows host for a VM?
I've got a fairly beefy gaming system that I also run occational virtual machines on. It runs windows 8 and the built in hyper V virtual machine software at the moment and has a core i7 3770 (which ...
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Virtual Machine vs. Dual Boot?
Similar to this question, I have a dilemma. I own a computer with Windows 8 on it, and that is not very convenient, because some games that I want to run crash on Windows 8. Therefore, I would like ...
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Why does VirtualBox show more CPUs than available?
I have an Intel Core i7 3930K with 6 CPU cores. Now, I understand that every of that cores can handle 2 separate threads. That makes 12 virtual cores - which I can see using my system monitor (see ...
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Is it possible to dual-boot my system with Windows 7 and Ubuntu and boot the same Windows OS into a VM while running Ubuntu?
So essentially I would like to be able to physically boot from either W7 or Linux on start-up, but I would rather remove the hassle of having to shut down everything I'm doing in Linux and wait for ...
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Sysprep could not complete
I recently had to change the SID on my virtual machine.
After a reboot I got this error message:
I opened the Microsoft Management console (Shift+F10 » mmc) and head over to user and local computer ...
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Using virtual box is it possible to set your virtual machine time to be different from host time
Using virtual box is it possible to set your virtual machine time to be different from host time. Say 1 year into the past.
If I wanted to run the windows XP images provided by Microsoft from here.
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Is it possible to increase hard disk space on virtual machine?
I have Ubuntu which runs as virtual machine under VMware Player .
When I installed Ubuntu I allocated 5 GB for its Hard Disk .
Is it possible to increase this space retroactively without ...
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Connect Web Service written in Guest OS of VMware from Host OS
Guest: Open SuSE 11.4
My Web Service, written in Web Services in Java in VMware Workstation 6.5, is in Guest OS.
Host: Windows 7
Tomcat project
As a beginner, how do I publish VM Web Services ...
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Slow PHP over ubuntu server | VirtualMachine
I have an Ubuntu-server 12.04LT-64x installed on VMware Player (I found VMWare works better than Virtualbox after few installations over vb).
My host computer is an Intel i3 with 6GB-RAM and ...
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booting into a virtual machine from a linux installed on external hard drive
I am running windows 8 and have a linux Ubuntu 12.04 installed on an external hard drive, can I install a virtual machine on windows and run the linux system installed on my external HD?
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Automatically starting virtualbox on ubuntu startup
I am using windows on a virtual box in ubuntu.Is there anyway to automatically start windows in the virtual box when ubuntu boots and when i shut down the windows in virtual box , i want ubuntu to ...
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Guest OS not using allocated CPU in Virtualbox
I have a host machine running virtual box on Windows 7.
I have 12 physical cores, and have tried to share them with my virtual machine (windows XP Pro SP3).
When I look and compare the task manager ...
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Is it possible to install Windows 98 on a VM in order to run a 16 bits app that accesses an old VLB data capture card from the host machine?
I need to access an old VLB (before PCI controllers) SCADA card with a 16 bits application that controls the data and processes.
I do have only the DOS driver for that card and I need to install a 32 ...
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Switch focus between monitors in multi-monitor setup
I'm using a multi-monitor setup and I often use the second screen as a display for a virtual machine.
My problem is that I haven't found a good way to switch between the virtual machine and the host ...
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Will a VirtualBox VM created on a Windows host run on a Mac host?
If I create a VM in Virtual Box on a Windows host, including installing a guest OS, will that VM run on a Mac OSX host?
