VirtualBox is a free, open source virtualization program from Oracle for the x86/x86_64 architectures.
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VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration is not available on your system
While installing an OS, I have gotten an error like this: VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration is not available on your system. Certain guests (e.g. OS/2 and QNX) require this feature and will fail to ...
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Can't connect with internet in mac leopard on Virtual box windows 8 [closed]
I have installed mac leopard on windows 8 using virtual box. To use internet in mac leopard i have used NAT option as the image shown here: http://i.stack.imgur.com/vB2TB.png but no internet on mac! ...
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Setting up Apache + PHP web server in Virtualbox on Win 7
Running Apache and PHP on Windows with XAMPP or WAMP sucks, because installing new PHP extensions on Windows is very hard. Most binary releases for Windows don't work :(
So I was thinking to run ...
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Taking a snapshot of your HDD, so you can revert back to it anytime
I have an OS installed in VirtualBox and like how I can take a snapshot of the current state of the OS before making changes to it, from changing settings, to installing software, to applying updates, ...
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Remote Access over the Network to a Virtual Box Machine
I am trying to remotely access a machine on Virtual Box, which is on a terminal server, but I don't want to have to log onto the terminal server first.
I have enabled the Remote Display Settings in ...
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creating bootable USB with win XP using a virtualbox and dd
I able to succesfully move linux installed on VirtualBox from virtual hard drive to physical usb drive.
I use unix dd command to read whole virtial harddrive and use physical usb flashdisk as output ...
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Can I save a VM Image on an SD Card?
I'm working with a VM Image in VirtualBox. Can I save it to an SD card and boot it from there? Can I save two machines on the SD Card?
Will VirtualBox put all files, related to the Images on that SD ...
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How can I increase disk space allocated to my VirtualBox VM?
The basics:
I'm running windows and have a VritualBox VM running Ubuntu 12.04 on top of that. I need to increase the disk space allocated from 8 GB to 12 GB. I'm trying to follow along with these ...
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Microsfot Virtual PC 2007 running 3 windows XP VMs on Dual monitors. VM screens freeze on each screen after twenty minutes
I am currently running three VMs on Microsfot Virtual PC 2007. After about twenty minutes the screen freezes where it is at and will not continue until I move the window the the other monitor. But ...
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Remote Desktop to Linux(Guest) from Mac(Host) on vbox [duplicate]
Remote Desktop to Linux(Guest) from Mac(Host) on vbox
Can someone please tell me how to remote desktop into a linux guest from a mac host
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How does bridged networking work?
How does bridged networking work? I have looked through the virtualbox manuals but nothing extremely technical came up (It was just a generic gloss over of the topic) How does it assign a different ip ...
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How can I get the terminal in full resolution when running Ubuntu CLI in VirtualBox?
I've installed Ubuntu (latest version) with CLI only, inside VirtualBox running in Windows 7 x64. Switching to fullscreen (CTRL + F in my setup) works, but of course the terminal windows has a low ...
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WiFi in a kali virtual machine?
I have Kali linux installed on Virtualbox (4.2.12) and the host OS is windows 7. I have bridged the VM with the host OS.The problem is Kali is not able to detect the WiFi interface.
I searched the ...
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How can I use Windows 8 interface in non-fullscreen VirtualBox?
I made a quick attempt to try out Windows 8 in VirtualBox, non-fullscreen mode. I found it difficult to bring up the new interface elements (for example, from the desktop interface, bringing up the ...
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How to remove virtualbox VM with snapshots?
I have a VM with many snapshots. I don't need this machine anymore, and I need disk space. Snapshots eat a significant amount of disk space.
But when I try to delete it by VirtualBox means - there is ...
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macbook pro windows boot and virtualize off usb drive
I want to raid two usb3 flash drives install windows onto it this new volume and be able to virtualize it or boot off of it. Any thoughts? I've heard parallels can run a bootcamp install virtually.
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VirtualBox and group policy in Windows 2008
I have some batch files that start and save virtual machines on a Windows Server 2008 box. I am using gpedit.msc to fire the bats...
I have added lines to write to a logs. There is a line written, ...
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My vbox shared mount will not auto mount and is only ready only?
My vbox shared mount will not auto mount and is only ready only?
I am using scientific linux host and centOS guest and I am trying to share a folder I have in both accounts but the folder is only ...
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CentOS 6 does not show any desktop icons or anything in the panel
I was using CentOS 6 in VirtualBox fine for a couple of days. Now, when I login via the GUI user prompt, all I get is the background screen, no icons, no menubar, nothing. I am not terribly familiar ...
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Allow multiple users to simultaneously access different Virtual Machines created in Virtual Box installed in Ubuntu
I want to setup a Ubuntu Virtual Box having different Windows version, and allow multiple users to remotely access the desired window machine from their own Ubuntu Installation simultaneously.
I've ...
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Configuring Apache for External Access
I would like to be able to access my apache webserver from outside of my LAN. I have my config files setup so that I am able to access my server through localhost/ and localhost:8181/ (all I did was ...
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Migrating a Computer to a VHD
A client of mine has a computer running applications for roughly 10 machines. They need a real server to handle all of this and I'm going to make some recommendations and install/migrate everything.
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Unable to install Visual Studio 2010 Professional on my virtualbox
I have tried so many times to install Visual Studio 2010 Professional Edition on my Virtual machine in Windows Server 2008 Environment.I have find following error log file.
[01/07/11,22:42:55] ...
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Drag'n'Drop doesn't work in VirtualBox
I'm on Mac OS X 10.8 and I'm using VirtualBox with Ubuntu 12.4 as guest. After install "Guest additions" Drag'n'Drop was working.
But since I install "additional drivers" and reboot the system, it ...
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Forward port from guest to host
How can I forward port from Guest (OS on virtual box) to Host (my actual machine)?
Guest - Windows 7
Host - Ubuntu 12.10
On my host, I run a web-server on port 3000.
I want to be able to open a ...
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Installing Windows 8 on virtual machine giving error
Well I've a pretty complicated hardware and software combination, so I am explaining the background first. I have a Macbook pro mid 2012 model with OSX Mountain Lion. I am dual booting it with Windows ...
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Virtual Box keeps crashing with message virtual box has stopped working
I have Virtual Box 4.2.12 and while doing guest installation (Oracle Linux), virtual box keeps crashing with these message
oracle vm virtual box has stopped working
Application event log has the ...
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How do I exclude or filter out particular USB device in VirtualBox
It is really annoying when using VirtualBox with a USB wireless keyboard/mouse. When I mount a drive, sometimes I will accidentally click "Logictech USB Receiver"...
And then I can't control my ...
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Quickest way to merge snapshots in VirtualBox?
I have vdi with quite a number of snapshots taken from it - say, 50 or 70 snapshots.
I want to have one plain vdi with a current state. These snapshots take way too much disk space and are not needed ...
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VirtualBox, multiple OpenVPN connections and network config
We are setting up a system for software acceptance testing. The test computers will run Win7 or Win Server 2003 R2. The test computers will have multiple VirtualBox VMs on which the programs under ...
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Allocation of memory to guest os [closed]
I have 6gb memory on my host OS (Windows 7 64bit), I am planning to install Oracle Linux as guest using Virtual Box.
How much memory should I allocate to guest OS? In guest OS I am planning to ...
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How do LVM Snapshots work on the PE level?
How do LVM Snapshots work on the PE level? What is stored where? What data is lost when the snapshot runs out of COW space?
(description + explanation below)
I was experimenting with LVM and ...
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Accessing dumped hard drive using Virtualbox
I have dumped a Windows XP partition from another computer's hard drive using dd over the network. Now I have the .img file, but I need further instructions if I can boot into that hard drive using ...
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How to connect to a remote VM using vagrant?
I have two Windows 7 machines in my local network.
One Windows 7 with Virtual Box (running Ubuntu) installed.
Is it possible to connect to the Ubuntu from another machine by using vagrant ?
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How do I setup DNS names and static IPs for an Ubuntu virtualbox?
I have Ubuntu installed on VirtualBox, on top of a Windows 8 host. How can I setup a static IP and DNS name for this virtual machine that other virtual machines will see?
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Is it possible to run VirtualBox under Linux VServer?
Is it possible to run VirtualBox under Linux VServer?
I installed virtualbox-4.2_4.2.12-84980~Debian~squeeze_amd64.deb into VServer host.
But it said following warning.
$ VBoxManage --version
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Windows 7 VirtualBox image won't boot and I can't boot in safe mode
I am trying to load a Virtualbox VM using a VHD file that was provided to me. The VHD contains an image for our dev environment on a Windows 7 OS. The wrinkle is that when I try to start up the VM, ...
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OpenGL warnings after enabling 3D acceleration in Virtual Box running Ubuntu 12.04 [closed]
I have a Windows 7 host running a virtual machine with Ubuntu 12.04 (using Virtual Box). When I enable 3D acceleration in the settings it seems not to work properly. I get the following warnings when ...
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Increase of virtualbox disk size
I need to increase my disk space in my guest Mint Linux, on a Mac OS host.
First I increased the virtual disk in the host with:
VboxManage modifyhd Mint.vdi --resize 20480
The GUI of VirtualBox ...
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Maintain and sync a VirtualBox VM between two separate computers
I have a VirtualBox VM that has a project I'm working on. I'd like to be able to use this VM on two separate computers, so I can work on it where I happen to be at that time. I've seen answers on ...
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Get rid of :Zone.Identifier files in Windows XP running through VirtualBox on Mac OS X
I have the following problem, that I need to solve:
When saving files from e-mail attachments to disk, it is always saved with another file named like this:
2CB4F016.tmp:Zone.Identifier:$DATA
These ...
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Windows 8 trackpad gestures along with scrolling stops working after running virtualbox or vmware player
I have an AMD A8 based HP laptop, Pavilion G6 2201AX running Windows 8.
It has a Synaptics touchpad. My problem is whenever i run Virtualbox or Vmware player all the gestures on trackpad stop working, ...
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Does Virtualbox virtualizes a NVIDIA or a AMD Radeon graphics card?
I'd like to try-out XBMCbuntu (the "live" version of XBMC) on Virtualbox.
Since it is offered in two version, specifically one for AMD and another for NVIDIA graphic cards, I'm puzzled on which one ...
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Misplaced letter in terminal [closed]
I have installed centos and GNOME inside a Virtual Box but the letter position is misplaced which look like following picture.
How could it resolved?
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Is it possible to boot a single Linux installation from both inside a VM and as host?
What I am thinking about is, that I'd install a linux on a hard drive to boot it normally. In addition to that, I'd create a VM on Windows, that would use the same raw mapped hard drive.
That way I ...
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Network access virtualbox linux guest from linux host
I've tried countless settings, read Virtualbox forums and googled for more hours than I'd like to admit.
What I want to accomplish is simply to be able to ssh into the guest and be able to view ...
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How to run Android-x86 4.2 iso on VM VirtualBox?
I installed oracle VM virtualBox on Win7,then I downloaded android-x86-4.2-20121225.iso from Android-x86 - Porting Android to x86.After I installed Android x86-4.2 on VirtualBox from iso and creating ...
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How do I run a virtual machine using the host IP address?
I want my VM to be assigned the IP address of the host.
My VM (Ubuntu OS 12.04 LTS) is installed inside my Windows 7 host machine. When I connect the host to the network, it is assigned an IP address ...
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Unable to connect to Internet in OEL5 guest even though I can ping machine from host machine
I have Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 as Guest on VirtualBox running on Windows 7 host using Bridged Network.
I have being trying to configure a static IP on OEL5 VM Guest at work, as previously the VMs ...
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wireshark: how to capture traffic between guest and host OS?
I'm trying to set up a lab to demonstrate ipv6 attack and detection mechanism on my Macbook. This is my set up with virtualbox:
Host OS: OS X 10.8.2 IPv6 automatically, wireless connection Geust
OS: ...
