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Linux - Creating Virtual Audio Device
My question here is rather simple. How does one create a purely virtual audio device in ALSA that would be capable of:
being used as an audio output destination,
being used as an audio input source, ...
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VirtualBox guest OS accessing local server on host OS
On my Ubuntu host I have my local webserver. I installed VirtualBox and Debian as a guest.
I would like the Debian guest to be able to hit my webserver running on my Ubuntu host (for example, I just ...
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Virtual Microphone setup (eg. play mp3 into the microphone port)
Is there a way to stream audio into the microphone port without jacking the speaker audio cable into the mic port? Operating systems: Windows, Linux
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Is there a free or open source equivalent to VAC?
Is there a free or open-source equivalent to Virtual Audio Cable for Windows?
I want to install a virtual sound card on Windows XP so I can stream the sound of a monitoring software on an ESX virtual ...
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Running windows 8 in a VM - can I use the copy that came with my laptop
I have just purchased a Thinkpad x1 Carbon that comes with windows 8 64 bit.
I haven't turned it on yet, but I plan to remove the windows install and replace it with Debian (after backing up the ...
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print to a “physical printer”?
A web sitewants me to print to a physical printer... How can they know if i'm using a real, physical printer or just OneNote? (BTW, they only know about your default...here is the site i'm talking ...
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How to check if a drive is physical or virtual?
At my work a guy is trying to locate some problems with a drive. The thing is we have more than 400 drives, physical and virtual. We're using Windows 2008 Server.
My question is, can we somehow see ...
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Windows: What is a virtualized process?
I have MinGW and MSYS installed and never really cared about how the binaries work. However, today I opened Process Explorer and realized that I have some virtualized processes:
I know that usually ...
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Mount floppy disk image (*.img) as virtual floppy drive
Title says it all. I am looking for some software that will allow me to mount a floppy disk image (*.img) as a virtual floppy drive...similar I suppose to mounting an ISO image to a virtual optical ...
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Create a virtual network interface using the iproute2 “ip link” command with a spoofed MAC address
How can I create a virtual interface similar to the following ifconfig command?
$ sudo ifconfig eth1 hw ether 00:01:02:aa:bb:cc
SIOCSIFHWADDR: No such device
This does not work. I want to set ...
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Dell laptop keeps detecting a Virtual Generic Non-PnP Display Device
One day out of nowhere, my Dell Studio 1747 laptop started detecting two display devices: One Generic PnP Device and another Generic Non-PnP Device.
I don't have two devices so how is it detecting ...
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My guest Ubuntu in VBox loses internet connectivity under NAT but not under Bridged Adapter- why?
I am running Ubuntu Linux via VirtualBox as a guest on top of a Win 7 Home Premium host. Everything was fine until a few days ago when my Internet connectivity started failing in Ubuntu. The default ...
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Xmodmap configuration
On my Debian Linux machine Ctrl+Alt+F1 is bound to a virtual terminal. I can see the corresponding entry by running xmodmap -pke
keycode 67 = F1 XF86_Switch_VT_1 F1 XF86_Switch_VT_1
Per this ...
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Install multiple OS on the same machine - without a host
This should not be a duplicate, as I tried searching for this specific question and came up with nothing.
Is it possible to install multiple operating systems (like Windows 7, Linux) on the same ...
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“Virtual” monitor on a PC which has no real monitor?
Is there any way to create a 'virtual monitor' on a PC that has no real monitor plugged in?
So that I can connect to it using an app such as TeamViewer.
If I run a virtual machine, I will not be ...
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What is a USB Wi-Fi dongle device that can emulate virtual mass storage device for a home video player?
What is a USB Wi-Fi dongle device that can emulate a virtual mass storage device for home video player, but in fact it shows the files from a network-shared enter code here folder?
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Disable Win+1-9 Hotkeys
Just downloaded Dexpot (virtual desktop application), and would like to assign the desktop switch hotkeys to Win-#, but these are already being used the by the system.
Is there an easy way to ...
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Windows 7 hosted network
I have to use a wired conection to my PC and i'd like to connect my android phone to the internet over Wi-Fi. I tried using the new Wireless Hosted Network functionality in Windows 7, but my phone ...
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Do virtualisation snapshots confuse Windows Activation
I have a Vista guest running inside VirtualBox on an Ubuntu host.
Suppose I take a snapshot, apply a patch, and then run the snapshot again (effectively the same as reverting the patch) am I likely ...
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Distribute Windows (XP or 7) as virtual appliance
I'm looking at ways that may be possible to distribute a Microsoft Windows (e.g. 7) virtual appliance (such as VMWare image) pre-configured and installed with a large application of mine.
Is this ...
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Is there a way to have a virtual file in Windows XP that points to a file on the web? (without shortcut)
Is there a program, or some way to have a file on the web, appear as a local file for the programs to use? Example: an image file on the web, show up as a read-only file in the Explorer, where I can ...
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Windows (7): virtual folders with newest files
Is there a functionality in Windows (or a third party app) to have a virtual folder containing links to files from a physical directory (and it's sub directories) which are not older than, say, 7 ...
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Create a .msi from a vm
A few years ago I worked a temp job where they created. msi files using an application that scanned a VMware virtual machine once, you then booted it up installed the thing you wanted and shut it ...
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Creating virtual serial port in Fedora
I want to create a virtual serial port in Fedora. I'm using Java code to communicate over a serial port. I want to test this code with out any serial devices connected.
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Ubuntu 10.10 + apache: vhost not working
At home I have an Ubuntu 10.10 desktop system for development purpose. For some reason I can't get virtual hosting working. At work I have an almost similar setup (completely done by me) with Apache ...
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Are Virtual-Desktop Managers good or bad for system resources?
I am looking at Virtual-Desktop Managers for Windows 7. Right now it seems that
VirtualWin is supposed to be about the best one available for use on Windows. I have never used anything like this ...
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Possible to take a snapshot of a hard disc and use it in a Virtual Machine?
A bit of a silly question really - but I was wondering would it be possible to take a snapshot of a OS you are running on a computer, the convert it or so it can be run as a virtual machine in VMware ...
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How to access an SSD drive from a virtual machine?
I'm using Xubuntu as the host OS and I've installed VirtualBox from the repositories. So I created a Windows XP 64 bit VM in VirtualBox, but I can't make it see the SSD device, which can be seen from ...
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Dual boot Linux / Windows 7 + Window 7 virtual machine under Linux + licensing
Is it legal to use single Windows 7 (home basic) license to install windows on host AND on virtual machine running under Linux on the same host?
It will be physically different installations ...
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Take free space on multiple machines and make one virtual hard drive (Ubuntu)?
We have a number of Ubuntu 10.04 machines connected in the LAN. Each of the machines has a lot of free space.
I wish to utilize this free space such that it would create a virtual (I do not mean VHD ...
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How to vertically split a dual widescreen into four virtual workspaces on ubuntu?
I have dual widescreen setup on Ubuntu using twinview (Nvidia). I would like to split each monitor into two "virtual" screens, so at the end I get four virtual screens.
I could arrange my windows ...
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Virtual wireless interfaces in different modes on single radio
I'm looking for a USB wireless adapter that will support virtual interfaces running in different wireless modes at the same time. I've found USB wireless adapters that support multiple wireless modes ...
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Windows Virtual PC losing network connection
I have a Virtual PC in Windows 7 which runs Windows 2003 server R2, but after a 10-15 minutes the virtual pc looses the network connection, I have to select in the VPC menu settings the network to ...
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Linux VServer cant connect to the internet
I'm trying to set up an vserver with connection to the internet.
When I start a ping to the local network, there are no problems. When im trying to ping an address from the internet, it shows that ...
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How to set up virtual users in vsftpd?
I've read this tutorial: http://howto.gumph.org/content/setup-virtual-users-and-directories-in-vsftpd/
My configuration is as follow:
---vsftpd.conf---
listen=YES
anonymous_enable=NO
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Assign IP address to a Virtual Printer
Is it possible to assign an IP to a virtual PDF Printer? Is there any Virtual printer software that automatically can do this?
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Virtual join-directory on Windows
Problem:
Say I have a video spanned over 2 files (vid001.avi & vid002.avi) and each file is on a seperate CD/DVD. If the 2 files are in the same directory my player will automatically play the ...
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Virtual monitor / desktop accessable through vnc only (windows 7)
I have the following challenge. I would like a virtual monitor / desktop on my windows 7 pc which is not neccessarily visible to me when i use the pc. Instead i want to access this virtual screen only ...
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Setting up VPSs for Students
I'm an information technology instructor at a community college. I'm looking for a solution to provide students a virtual private server where they can have their own linux/whatever box to use for an ...
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Is there a way to have a DVD/CD virtual drive installed and store DVDs in an .iso file?
I'm currently playing Crysis, but I also like to play Worms Armageddon sometimes and both of them need their respective DVDs to run.
I'd like to know if there's a way to copy the files off the DVD, ...
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What is the difference between VHD and virtual disk?
I am studying for mcsa and have got myself so confused. What is the difference if any?
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Improving performance with a “virtual hard drive”
After reading this I am wondering if having an all virtual hard drive, if virtual hard drives even exist, with a single program on it would significantly improve that programs performance?
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MAMP PRO on Lion: why can't I see any changes in httpd-vhosts.conf?
After adding a local virtual host in MAMP PRO (os x lion) everything works as expected.
Out of curiosity I had a look at httpd-vhosts.conf file placed in MAMP/conf/apache/extra and to my surprise this ...
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How to increase VirtualBox virtual drive actual size?
I have selected "dynamically allocated" mode upon creating virtual drive. I was thinking it will grow automatically up to maximum size. But it constantly has "actual size" of 4Gb and does not growing ...
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Virtual box on windows
I installed Sun virtual box in windows 7 as admin user. When I logged in as user i can run the virtual box but the installed vms are not visible. How can i solve this problem?
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Sharing a single computer between many users at the same time
Users should only have keyboard, mouse, monitor — that's it, no computer. I understand the licensing problems I will encounter for Windows, but my boss wants to know if this is possible and I'm not an ...
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how to create VMDK file in Virtualbox for adding USB as a new OS?
I have a USB who have a OS inside on them. now i want to create VMDK file to use them in virtualbox.
i read many article but never found that how i can use them. in a article i found the way that:-
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What Mac Pro Would I need to run 2 Virtual OSs simultaneously
If I were to run Ubuntu, W7 AND Mac OS X via VirtualBox (or Parallels) on a Mac Pro, what would I need to make them run perfectly fine in seamless mode?
And I mean, no hiccups, no laggy windows, etc.
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Very complex networking requirement: reverse internet connection sharing through virtual wifi router
As a contractor, I have 2 laptops: one is provided by the client (client-laptop) and one is my personal/contractor laptop ("personal-laptop"). Client-laptop has a docking station and a hard-wired LAN ...
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Mount directory as virtual dvd/cd (not disk)
I would like to emulate mounting as a virtual cd or dvd, so Mac OS X Lion thinks it is a real cd / dvd.
I have already tried ToastMount, however it hasn't been compiled for Intel processors and I ...
