A virtual machine is an emulation of a guest operating system, running on virtualized hardware within a host operating system.
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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?
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QEMU: How to find bottleneck in my virtual machine?
I am running an ubuntu virtual-machine on a 12.04 ubuntu server. Unfortunately the machine is extremly slow (just htop consumes 15%), even though having 8 cores etc.
Do you know a way to find the ...
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Virtual Hard disk reducing Performance
I installed an OS on VHD and the performance of OS is horrible. All the 3d transitions and effects are very choppy although I have a Core i7 machine. I created this VHD on Windows 7 Home Premium.
I ...
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what is the fastest way of sharing files between VMs?
I've got four guest OS (2 Window XP, 1 Ubuntu VM, 1 FreeNAS) with guest additions installed on each, hosted on an Ubuntu server (12.10) using a headless VirtualBox (4.2.6r82870) setup.
Currently, I'm ...
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Dump a virtual machine to disk
Is it possible to take the contents of a VM disk and write them directly to a hard drive, so that I can boot off of it and essentially turn the VM to a regular OS installation?
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Creating a Virtual Machine from a physical Disk
I recently added a 4th hard disk to my computer installed Windows 8 Pro with Microsoft development tools, all went fine, I'm happy.
I have in my computer another disk with Windows 7 full of ...
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Windows 8 Pro Hyper-V Manager network connection
Need to create a VM instance of Ubuntu 12 hosted on Windows 8 Pro. Discovered Hyper-V. Got it installed like a charm with OS booting up real nice.
However, for the life of me and at least two hours ...
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Access VM virtual host site
Ok, my situation is:
I have a Mac with Parallels running Windows 7. On this Windows 7 VM i have pointed exampledomain.com to 127.0.0.1 via the hosts file. What I would like to do is when I'm on my ...
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Setting up a NFS in Xen: dom0 or domU
I need access to a couple of data drives I have on my test Xen box (Debian Wheezy/Unstable). I am going to provide access to a couple of the physical drives within it to all or most of the domu's on ...
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VMWare Virtual Network Editor - Bridged Network not working since switch
I want to connect my virtual Debain server to the LAN via a bridged network. The virtual bridged network is configured in the VMWare Virtual Network Editor (VmNet0 - Bridged), the right NIC has been ...
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Why does my company prefer to giving me a VM to work on rather than another stand-alone system? [closed]
I work for a software development company but have had limited understanding of VMs.
I believe this will help elicit the basic advantage of VMs.
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how to allow nginx in guest vm access shared folders in host os?
My setup
I want to setup a ubuntu vm to act as a web server for development.
Reason
I want to have a development environment as close to the actual production environment as possible.
Problem
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Bind user to virtual box os
I have Windows 7 Host and Windows XP guest in virtual box. Is it possible to somehow bind a particular user to that guest OS. I want to create some test environments for particular users. The idea is ...
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colon and quotes show up as diamonds in ubuntu 12.10 server edition via virtualbox 4.2
i typed out the following
bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/4372049)"
I get this in my ubuntu vm
Inside the vm i also cannot scroll up and down like the way I can do so using ...
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cannot copy from Mac OS X to ubuntu 12.10 inside virtual box 4.2
I want to copy paste back and forth between my host (Mac OS X) and my guest (ubuntu 12.10) using virtual box 4.2
I have already set to bidirectional setting and i tried using Cmd+C and Cmd+V
It does ...
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Convert OVF to XVA
How to convert a OVF virtual machine image to XenServer XVA vm image? Without the need of a running Citrix XenServer.
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If I uninstall VMWare Player in windows 7 in order to upgrade, do I lose my VM?
I have a VMWare Player 4.0.2. I can upgrade it to version 5.0.0. I started the process and it asked me to uninstall the current version of VMWare. I am afraid of losing my VM inside the VMWare ...
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Can you access a shared vmware workstation virtual machine from a vmware fusion?
VMware Workstation 9 lets you share a virtual machine in such a way that while it's running on one computer you can access it from another computer running VMware Workstation.
Could you also access ...
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Azure VM (OpenLogic CentOS 6.3): no kernel-headers
I have set up a VM on Windows Azure (Openlogic CentOS 6.3 - of one predefined images).
The problem is I see no kernel-headers package and it can't be installed (yum doesn't fine it). Thus, anything ...
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Is it possible to migrate a Windows installation to another machine or Parallels?
I've got a Windows 7 machine that's about to die and I want to transfer my data to another machine, or possibly to a disk image that I would then run inside of Parallels on my Mac. I could of course ...
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How to install software in linux using windows?
I have windows 7 running, but I have the machine inside a domain, with Active Directory. I need to install likewise in a virtual machine running linux (Ubuntu), but unless I connect the VM to ...
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Local DNS resolution really slow on Mac OS X
I have a centos linux running as a virtual machine in a Virtual Box on my Mac OS 10.8.2. The virtual machine has the IP address 172.17.33.2. I created an entry in /etc/hosts with
172.17.33.2 ...
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Dev environment in virtual machine - edit source files
I have a mac and until now I've installed my dev environment directly on the host OS. I would like to give a shot to virtualized dev environment.
I don't have the time to learn how to setup a ...
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graphics performance in ubuntu virtual machine running windows
i will keep this as simple as possible:
My gfx card if radeon x1800gto. It's a decent card with decent gaming performance in windows.
Right now, ubuntu does not get any newer proprietary drivers ...
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Split Tunneling with VM Ware (Windows 7 with forced Bridge) on OS X
I'm running a VM with Windows 7 (VMWare Fusion 5)that is connecting through a VPN; however, to ensure it works, it must be in 'bridged' mode.
Unfortunately, when I connect in the VM to the VPN, I ...
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Configuring bridged network card on VMWare VM - Host : Windows 7 - Guest : Ubuntu Server 12.04
My question is about giving Internet connection to a VM with a STATIC IP address, by connecting to the WiFi I have at home.
I gave my VM, running Ubuntu Server 12.04 on VMWare Player, one network ...
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Windows Azure Virtual Machine & Disk Storage
I created a Windows virtual machine in azure. By default it came with 2 drives.
c:\ => with 30 GB
d:\ => with 15 GB
I created a data disk of 10 GB and attached that to the virtual machine. I ...
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WMware virtual machine cannot connect to internet
I have to use virtual machine located at https://crypto.stanford.edu/cs155/hw_and_proj/pp1/boxes-2.3.tar.bz2. It is a Debian without any GUI. I run it with default configuration. I am able to make ssh ...
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windows host file a VM machine
I have a centos installed as a guest OS on my windows7,
In Centos there is apache installed
In windows's host file, I add in
192.168.1.11 mynet.com
the IP is the guest OS 's IP and in windows, ...
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Virtualizing networking appliance with qemu or similar
Since I'm interested in some *WRT/OpenWRT related work on ARM devices, I would like to use some virtualized environment for this and for facilitate my tasks.
A more direct question will be: it's ...
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network of guest CentOS on a hosting Windows 7
Yesterday, my guest CentOs running on VMWare worked fine but today its network runs into trouble
Network connection in guest OS is set up in Bridged mode and today I always get the error or "unable ...
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Can't take control of USB drive on VMware
I'm running VMWare Workstation on Windows 7 x86-64, and a Mac OSX 10.8 inside the VM. Whenever I try to connect my USB drive to the Mac OSX guest, it just doesn't gets recognized, i've already tried ...
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Need help setting up bind in OSX for browser testing in Parallels Windows XP VM
Ok, this will be a somewhat lengthy question. First, some background: I am developing and testing websites on a Macbook (OSX Lion), using Parallels to run various installs of Windows for IE testing. I ...
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Advice on webserver / database server setup
I have a home server (HP ProLiant N36L link with 8Gb of RAM), running Windows Server 2012 that I want to use as a home web server.
Is it worth settings up VM's in Hyper-V for virtual DB servers and ...
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Can't ping guest OS in VirtualBox, but guests can ping host
Host OS: Windows 7
Guest OS: Ret Hat Linux (RHEL 6) and Windows 7
I want to connect to both guest OSes. I tried to ping both guests, but it is not working.
Both guests can ping my Windows 7 host ...
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Is it possible to boot already installed version of Ubuntu from within Win7, e.g. with a vm?
I have both Ubuntu 12.10 and Win7 installed. I use the former mostly for scientific simulations and the latter for applications.
The problem I came across with this configuration is that the ...
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Unable to access internet from VM (Ubuntu 12.04) installed in Windows 7 Host OS
I have installed Ubuntu as my guest O.S. in Vmware. I am able to ping DNS as well as Google from the terminal but unable to access the same from Firefox browser.
What can be the problem?
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Installing 64-bit Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS, on a VM with VMWare Player, on a 64-bit Windows 7 PC
I'm trying to create a VM, using VMWare Player, with an ISO image of Ubuntu Server 12.04 (LTS). The machine I'm doing the installation on has an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU, and runs 64-bit Windows 7
I ...
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“Integrated” VMs (As opposed to “Sandboxed”) [closed]
It is common for virtual machines to be sandboxes, their interaction with the host OS being limited to the absolutely necessary.
Are there any projects that would try to integrate VMs (specifically ...
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Is it possible to restore a VM having only a snapshot and not the .vdi file?
I've accidentally deleted the .vdi file of a virtual machine in Virtualbox but I still have the latest snapshots. Is it possible to recover the virtual machine in my situation?
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Is it possible to Run a VM Simulating Power Architecture on a Machine with x86 Architecture?
Is it possible to bring up a virtual machine which simulates IBM Power guest architecture (Big Endian) on a machine running x86 host architecture (Little Endian)? Obviously the VM would have to ...
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How do you create and partition a raw disk image?
I need to create a raw disk image for use in a virtual machine, but I need to create the partitions before creating the file system or installing the operating system.
Can anyone describe a process ...
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Windows 8's Hyper-V with Ubuntu
I just started experimenting with the Hyper-V of Windows 8 and installed Ubuntu on it. However when I launch it my screen resolution is small.
How can I scale Ubuntu to the resolution of my screen?
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How to run suspended guest ( Windows 2003 32bit) on a Windows XP host using VMWare Workstation 8
I am trying to run a suspended guest ( Windows 2003 32bit) on a windows xp host using VMWare Workstation 8 and I get the message "The virtual machine you are attempting to restore is using the NX/ED ...
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How can I untar a filesystem backup into a VM disk image?
I've been provided a .tar.gz archive containing the files from a VM file system (but not the filesystem itself) and I need to untar these into a raw disk image so that I may mount them as a VM.
How ...
