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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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Trouble with Kali Linux in vmware: "Connection Failed: Activation of network connection failed"

I just put a Kali Linux VM on VMware Workstation Pro 15, but it keeps giving me the error: Connection Failed: Activation of network connection failed. In the VM's network adapter is set to NAT right ...
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Creating a Window 10 Pro VM on a Window 10 Pro, with hyper V

On my computer with Windows 10 Pro, I wish to create a virtual machine with Windows 10 Pro. I seem to be unable to do this, as I can only create the following OS's. I'm not sure if this is possible, ...
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VirtualBox: Windows XP BSOD 0x0000007B

[edit] Quick answer from comment which I believe is true: There is probably no realistic answer when the computer hardware does not support hardware virtualization. You will need to upgrade the ...
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VirtualBox Won't Start (Failed to acquire the VirtualBox COM object)

I recently started virtualbox and it gave me this error: virtualbox error part 1 virtualbox error part 2 Failed to acquire the VirtualBox COM object. The application will now terminate. Document is ...
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Trying to add hard drive to VM on ESXI 8, .vmdk file not found?

Using ESXI 8.0 update 2. Have a VM I am trying to add a hard drive from an existing .vmdk file. Had some issues doing this through the web UI as noted here and we had more luck using VMWare ...
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Remove Unallocated Space from VHD

I have an XP machine, with a 60GB Drive size. In the interests of resilience, I created a clone of this drive, onto a 1TB disk. I want to try avoid using disk2vhd on the origianl disk if possible. ...
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Does Virtual Box Support Guest Suspend/Hibernate?

I set up a Debian VM using Virtual Box to experiment with suspend/hibernation when LUKS is enabled. But I don't seem to be able to sleep the guest. My question is not about setting up hibernation. I ...
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Installing VirtualBox on Debian 12 Bookworm With Errors

I have a Clevo PD70SND-G, fresh from China. Installed Debian 12 Bookworm. I am attempting to install, and use, VirtualBox. I have data on a VirtualBox machine that I need access to. I have attempted ...
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How to use Virtual Box with a Disk image created with Norton Ghost?

I was given a file with "sv2i" extension and a couple of "v2i" files. According to my search, it is a disk image created with Norton Ghost. I converted the sv2i file to a vmdk file, which apparently ...
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How do you create a virtualbox vm image from an existing linux file system?

I have an existing linux system that I'd like to use to create a virtual machine. I have installed VirtualBox. I was able to use https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/16299/using-a-lvm-partition-...
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Error when booting up a Windows 95 virtual machine in Windows Virtual PC

I tried to install Windows 95 on a Windows Virtual PC virtual machine, but when I am trying to run it post installation, I got an error during boot: When initializing device IOS: Windows protection ...
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How to find out a VMs IP address by using VMWare Workstation? Not ipconfig on VM

I am running a VM on VMWare Workstation. Host is Win8.1 VM is debian. How do I find out the IP address of the VM without using the VM? Means: not entering password into debian and executing ifconfig. ...
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How to access a Virtual Machine webserver from outside the network

I have installed a virtual machine for using an ERP through webserver. I have configured the network as NAT. All of my computers attached to the local network can access the webserver by typing the ...
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Installing VirtualBox in linux via a script with also includes signing kernal modules

I have a linux VM (ubuntu 20.04) with secure boot settings active. Basically I need to install virtualBox and then create multiple VMs via virtual box via script only. No manual intervention should be ...
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How to access a Hyper-V virtual machine remotely with Remote Desktop?

Right now I have a physical server with Windows Server 2012 in which I am running a windows 7 virtual machine with Hyper-V Manager. How can I access this specific virtual machine without going through ...
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Is a VMDK disk made with VMWare usable directly with VirtualBox?

A .vmdk dynamic disk of 250 GB has been created in VMWare, and an OS is installed on it. Only 20 GB are actually used. I finally want to use this with VirtualBox, but when using "Export to OVF&...
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Ubuntu VM hangs in VirtualBox under Window 10: "watchdog BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s"

This is Windows 10 with VirtualBox installed and Ubuntu virtual machine with Apache server. Often CPU hangs on the Ubuntu virtual machine, taking up to 50% host CPU usage with no response at all, when ...
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How to Properly Import .ovf and .vmdk from VMware into VirtualBox

The .ovf and .vmdk don't seem to work with VirtualBox, giving me an error saying that the .vmdk has not been created yet, even when I point the program to the file in the .ovf import screen. It doesn'...
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Apache VirtualHost on a VM

I'm learning about Apache Virtual Host. I'm using a VM running Ubuntu Server 18.04 with Apache2.4, my objective is configure two Virtual Host in the Apache2 and access it from my PC (not the VM). I ...
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Mosh client unable to communicate to mosh server in a guest virtual machine

I'm having trouble trying to connect to mosh-server that is installed in a Arch Linux guest Virtual Machine (set up with the stack: KVM, libvirt and QEMU). I have a port forward configured with: virsh ...
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What do these GPU parameters mean?

I was able to get some GPU virtualization working by following the steps shown on this site. However, I do not understand what any of the values mean. For example, I get the same output when running ...
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How to enable copy/paste on a VM-Ware virtual Windows machine?

I've just created a virtual Windows-10 machine, but the virtual machine settings don't mention any isolation-related entries, so what can I do in order to enable copy/paste on that virtual machine? ...
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VMware Player disables the numpad on the host

I have a Linux Mint host and a Windows 7 Pro guest OS in Vmware Player 12 with VMware additions are installed. Each time the mouse and the keyboard are "grabbed" by the virtual machine, at the moment ...
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Linux VirtualBox - Machine group conflicts with a virtual machine name

Machine group '/Linux/New Group' conflicts with a virtual machine name. I'm trying to import a virtual machine that my University provided me with. I don't have any groups made in VB, and I have no ...
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How can I mount an external hard drive in a VirtualBox machine

I have installed Virtual Box on Machine and setup a Ubuntu 9.10. And I have an external hard drive formatted for Linux. But when I hook up the external hard drive, my Ubuntu 9.10 can't see the ...
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PowerShell, Windows 10 autologon inside a Hyper-V VM [duplicate]

I have a pristine Windows 10 VM inside a newly installed Hyper-V on a newly setup Windows 10 host, and have been trying to get the VM to autologon using PowerShell. I've spent quite a few hours on ...
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Fedora Virtualbox VM machine when clicked, details UI not visible

I am in Fedora and I have installed virtualbox latest, earlier it was showing the UI of a VM when I click on it but later on , I initiated File manager and now I can only see below components on the ...
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How can I connect a USB drive in a virtual machine running on Windows 2012 server

I have a windows 2012 server running. My virtual machine is a windows SBS 2008 server. Physically I can connect a USB to my Windows 2012 server, but I don't know how to connect the USB to the virtual ...
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How secure is VirtualBox's VM encryption?

I'm using VirtualBox 7 on Windows 11. How secure is their disk image encryption? Where is the encryption key stored? If a third party gets access to the computer when the VM is turned off, what are ...
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Can't drag-drop from Windows 10 to Ubuntu VirtualBox machine

Trying to drag/drop (or copy/paste) files or folders from my Windows-10 (x86-64) machine to an ubuntu VirtualBox machine. It does not work. My VirtualBox version is: 5.1.26 r117224. Guest machine is ...
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Why is VirtualBox slow when unfocused in macOS?

I am on a Mac laptop (MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) i7 / 32GB RAM) running Win10 in VirtualBox. I have noticed a degradation in performance of the VM when the VirtualBox VM window is not the focused ...
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Is an application hosted on a VM within the cloud still an "on-premises" application according to this Microsoft documentation? [closed]

Wikipedia defines on-premises software as the following: (elipse mine) On-premises software [...] is installed and runs on computers on the premises of the person or organization using the software, ...
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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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Can't enable copy/paster between Kali virtualbox and Windows host

I am trying to enable copy/paste between a Kali Linux virtualbox machine and a Windows host machine. First from the virtual machine advanced settings, I enabled bidirectional choice at both shared ...
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How to restrict user to only certain domains with qemu:///session libvirt wtihout polkit?

How can I restrict users to starting user mode vms to specific domains? I don't want to use polkit for this, but I'm not sure it can even be used for delegating access to users running executables ...
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Cannot install VirtualBox on a Mac running macOS High Sierra (10.13.6)

I don't have much experience with Mac's and am having trouble getting Virtual Box installed. I have a MacBook Pro (Late 2011) running macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 and am trying to install Virtual Box 5.2....
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Unable to install SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP 7.52 on OPENSUSE VM

I am trying to install SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP 7.52 on OPENSUSE VM, but when i run install.sh it starts and after sometime stops installation without an error or a warning, which makes it difficult to ...
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Does Hyper-V x64 support running Windows 11 arm64?

Looking for the way to build a software under Windows arm64 while using Windows 10 x64 as a host. Search engine didn't show useful results. AI mentioned some "ARM64 Emulation Tools (Hypervisor ...
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Misconfigured files on an emulated SSH server and now ping, traceroute, and Docker are not working on my host VM. (SSH, apt and browser still work.)

TLDR: On a class-assigned virtual machine, ping traceroute and the original script used to access a Docker container/emulated VM stopped working after exiting a SSH session with the emulated VM. This ...
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The network connection in my Windows 10 parallels VM isn't working, what is causing this?

I installed Parallels VM on my Mac and created a Windows 10 VM. I have a connection problem in the Windows 10 VM but not on my Mac. I get the following error: There is no network adapter on your ...
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Virtual Box OS stuck with blank screen

I want to run Linux OS on my Windows machine as guest OS. To make it run, I have installed Oracle Virtual Box and Ubuntu ISO file. And I have configured it as follows: Ubuntu version: ubuntu-18.04.2 ...
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Virtual machine isn't recognizing file changes when altered on host machine unless "ls -l" is triggered

I am seeing a weird issue on a virtual machine running on a server of mine. I set up a little test scenario below that illustrates the symptoms of what I am experiencing and I can't figure out what ...
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How to move free space from end of vm disk to resize(grow) primary partition on qemu hypervisor?

I was able to add space to my vm, but am at a loss for how to shuffle it from the end of the disk to resize the primary partition. Appreciate your input if you are knowledgeable about how to do this.....
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oracle vm instance, no matches found

I am trying to launch chromium on Oracle-Linux-8.9-2024.01.26-0 it is a vm i got from oracle, yet I get the following error root/.cache/puppeteer/chrome/linux-121.0.6167.85/chrome-linux64/chrome: ...
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How to install guest additions on Tails?

I'm running tails on virtualbox and for the life of me i really cant install guest additions. I keep getting Could not mount the media/drive 'C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxGuestAdditions.iso' ...
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How to shrink VMWare disk size?

I installed Windows 10 on VMWare and I set its capacity as 60 gigabytes. Now I only want it to have 30 gigabytes and reclaim those 30 gigabytes for my mac. How do I change that?
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IP Conflict on mac vm guest

I have a host mac running Mac OS 14.4 (Sonoma). I am using VirtualBuddy to run the native VM capability, and a Guest instance of OS 14.0. I am having a IP conflict on ONE specific network... Starbucks....
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GPU passthrough vSphere 3D acceleration

I have a Nvidia Tesla T4 I passed through to a VM (Windows Server 2019) on vSphere ESXi 8.0. Windows is detecting the card and it's showing in device management, but any software that wants to use 3D ...
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How to RDP into Debian Linux (12) guest machine from Hyper-V running on Windows Server 2016?

Anyone know how to remote desktop into a non-Windows guest running in Hyper-V (running on Windows Server 2016)? I managed to get this to work before, with Kali (without installing anything on Kali - ...
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VirtualBox Installation

Sorry guys if this is a dumb question but I'm trying to learn all of this and am a bit confused. I have Kali Linux installed as a 'Live" program to a USB stick. I'm looking at using the Oracle ...

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