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Is it possible to port a working Windows XP system to a VirtualBox VM?

On my old laptop I have been using Windows XP for a really long time. I have completed my switch from the old laptop to a new one (which has Windows 7 running on Intel i5 - the older laptop had Intel ...
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0xC4 Blue Screen with HyperSLI and Virtual Box

I wonder if anyone had any insight as to why my Windows 7 install blue screens whenever I start VirtualBox VMs while HyperSLI is enabled. I know that HyperSLI is the issue, because if I restart the ...
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Connect to virtualized Oracle 10g XE with sqlplus

I have two (actually one and it's clone but each have unique MAC and IP) virtualized CentOS guest in VirtualBox on Ubuntu Host. Both guest have a Host-only Adapter. I've installed Oracle 10g before I ...
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Achieving A 1600 x 900 Resolution For (Guest OS) Ubuntu Under (Host OS) Windows 7

I am running Ubuntu 11.10 as a guest OS using VirtualBox 4.1.16 installed on Windows 7 Ultimate. On my laptop I'd like to be able to run Ubuntu in full screen mode at 1600 x 900. I only have options ...
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Mac OSX Lion on Virtualbox video driver

I recently installed Max OS X Lion (iAtkos L1) on Virtualbox (host: Windows 7). Everything works fine but the graphics. As I am only able to assign only 256 M of cram to it and 3D accelerator seems to ...
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VMWare Workstation and Virtual Box wont install Windows 2008R2, same error: CD Driver missing

I am trying to install Windows 2008 R2 with SP1 in a virtualized host on Windows 7. I have tried VMWare 7 and Virtual Box, but both give me the same error: Any tips what I can do? I've ...
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windows ISO file to use with VirtualBox

I read here on superuser.com that windows XP ISO files are not generally available for downloads from legitimate sources. What version of Windows can I use then, to mount as an ISO file with ...
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How can I stop Windows changing order of physical disks at every reboot?

I have to use some physical disks in a Linux machine virtualized with Virtualbox in a Windows 7 host environment but the order of physical disks keeps changing at every reboot and I must reconfigure ...
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Can I run Virtual PC along with VirtualBox

I have the Consumer Review of Windows 8 on my computer and Virtual PC was automatically installed. However, I know that it does not run on VirtualPC and so I would like to install VirtualBox to run ...
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Why VirtualBox error: Failed to create a snapshot of the virtual machines Ubuntu

I have created two Virtualbox machine using an ubuntu ISO file. In both of them when I try to take a snapshot it says: Failed to create a snapshot of the virtual machine Ubuntu. I tried to run ...
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VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED when trying to create a windows 8 image in Virtualbox

I'm trying to create a Virtualbox image of windows 8 consumer preview. I tried this tutorial: http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/how-to-install-windows-8-on-virtualbox/ I did exactly what was ...
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Virtualbox: Raw linux partition not booting

I have a dual-boot laptop with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. I am trying to boot the ubuntu partition from windows using Virtualbox. I have successfully created the .vmdk, and created the virtual ...
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Setting up virtualbox for outside access

I have a computer running a server that my subdomain on my shared hosting account points to. IE subdomain.mydomain.org goes to my home server. Now then; what I'm wanting to do is be able to access my ...
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How can I configure a DHCP server assigned to a Host-only net in virtualbox

I can create an adapter via VBoxManage hostonlyif create but how to I configure it with DHCP, it doesn't seem like VBoxManage hostonlyif ipconfig take any arguments for DHCP: ...
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My Ubuntu guest system is no longer picking up the Host-only network in virtualbox

I managed to briefly get this working before, but I was messing around with creating these via the command line and was deleting and creating them and now it's stopped working. This is what I've tried ...
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How can I get virtualbox to run with a hosts-only adapter?

I'm trying to setup a Hosts-only Adapter so I can connect to it. It says that invalid settings detected and the name: drop-down isn't populated. What am I doing wrong and how can I rectify it? My ...
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How to reduce VM size?

I have a Virtualbox VM, with a .vdi that is taking 49gb in the host machine. I may have used that much space inside the VM once, but now I'm only really using about 6gb. I tried this command for ...
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SSH Basics on Vagrant VMs

I'm building a vagrant machine (Ubuntu 12.04) with the following requirements: SSH access via Vagrant to a user with sudo-privileges. I've generated public/private keys (via ssh-keygen) on the ...
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How do I pause and restart VirtualBox virtual machines on ACPI suspend?

I use VirtualBox to set up Web developer environments on my laptop. If I suspend the computer and then restart, I'll get very long startup times while VirtualBox spins back up. I have much less of a ...
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PXE Boot VirtualBox Mac OS X

I'm looking to PXE Boot VirtualBox for MacOS Lion in a way similar to described with VMware Fusion here: ...
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Unable to connect from the host OS to the guest in VirtualBox

I have an Ubuntu machine and I have installed 64-bit RHEL on VirtualBox. I changed the adapter settings of the guest to connected to bridged network, and I am able to ping my host from the guest, ...
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Forcing monitor resolution in VirtualBox VM on Linux Guest

I am working in a VirtualBox 4 VM running Slackware-current. I have added an external monitor, and am attempting to set up both of them to run in their native resolutions, but am having no luck. I am ...
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Windows 8 64bit on Virtualbox installation freezes, throws error [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Which virtual machine software is preferable for running Windows 8 Developer Preview? I am having troubles with installing Windows 8 on Virtualbox - I installed it once, ...
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How to setup IPtables to allow capture network traffic from a virtualbox VM configured with NAT

I am certainly not an IPtables expert, but I am looking to accomplish the following: I would like to have a guest virtualbox VM that can't get online that I can monitor all network traffic attempts ...
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Virtual Machine begins with installation again after restarting

I have been trying to set up a virtual machine using VMware/VirtualBox. Everything runs fine- the set up etc. I use an ISO file for the setup, in case that matters. But when I power off the machine ...
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VirtualBox shared folder write permission - Ubuntu 12.04

I'm using the following command to mount my folder in VirtualBox: sudo \mount -t vboxsf -o rw -o uid=1000 -o gid=1000 Dropbox ~/Dropbox/ But the folder is read-only. What can I do about it? I ...
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How to temporary turn off seamless mode of VirtualBox?

I use Deskpin to nailed the virtual machine to be on top by using hotkey Ctrl-F12. But in seamless mode, I cannot do that since every time I click the guest machine's window, the mouse go inside the ...
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Windows Virtual Machines will not run

I'm trying to setup a few virtual machines to use for testing websites in the various old versions of IE. I had Microsoft Virtual PC working on an older machine using XP mode and 2 other VHD's from ...
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VirtualBox and Mac OS X Lion error“ FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted”

I tried virtual Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 with Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3.dmg I new a sys on VirtualBox, close EFI but VirtualBox show error" FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted" VirtualBox: 4.1.12 ...
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Netoworking 2 virtual machines with TOR only enviroment [closed]

I am attempting to setup a Virtual machine system where Everything I do inside the Virtual Machine will be fully contained within itself and no one will be able to see what the vm has been doing. I ...
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setting up an internal network with virtual box

I have two guest copies of ubuntu server 12.04 on virtual box. They were cloned from an initial guest. When I cloned them, I specified "reinitialize MAC address." When I change the settings of both ...
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VM running Wireshark using USB wireless card for network is not displaying data correctly

I have BT running in a VM on windows 7. I just setup my Alfa wireless card with the VM. I'm able to connect to my wireless network correctly but having issues with wireshark data. When i go to capture ...
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Failed to fetch security.debian.org on Windows host

I am using 64-bit Debian 6.0 (squeeze) from a Windows 7 64-bit VirtualBox host, but I'm unable to successfully ping security.debian.org from both the guest or the Windows host. E.g., from the ...
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VirtualBox Host ssh to Guest

I have a mac host, and a VirtualBox Linux guest, currently using Bridged mode. I need to be able to easily SSH into the guest from the host. It would be nice to use a hostname, but a never-changing ...
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Installing VirtualBox on BackTrack 5

I'm getting this error when running VirtualBox's installation script: $ sudo ~/Downloads/VirtualBox-4.1.14-77440-Linux_x86.run Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing VirtualBox for ...
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VirtualBox crashes with Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit

I've tried it with many different configuration changes. Eventually I'm using now the stock config with 3D support and 128 MB graphics memory. The installation of Ubuntu crashes and I get the ...
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Enabling Network on VirtualBox with Mobile Broadband

I have set up a Windows7 VM on Virtual Box. Host OS is Ubuntu Oneiric. I am connected to internet on host OS using mobile connection. I want to use this connection on my VM as well. But I am unable to ...
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VirtualBox and VMWare player both cannot turn off properly

In both VMWare Player and VirtualBox I cannot get the guest OS turned off properly. So I use generic Turn off or halt command, the guest OS performs necessary steps to turn off and freezes on the ...
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Evidently I've lost my HAL… - Can't start up VM - HAL.dll missing

I recently went and dug out one of my old HDs (the PC it was mounted in is no longer in existence...) I mounted it in my PC and used DVD2VHD to convert the whole drive to a VHD. It's an old XP drive ...
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How do I share external hard-drives between host and guest in VirtualBox?

I'm running VirtualBox 4.1.14, host is iMac OS X 10.7.3, guest is Ubuntu 12.04. I want to share folders between the two, ideally access to external hard-drives that are my storage for the Mac. Have ...
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VirtualBox host OS fake IP for apache

I have apache installed on the guest machine. But in many scripts I have following condition: if (!in_array(@$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], array( '127.0.0.1', '::1', ))) { header('HTTP/1.0 403 ...
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VirtualBox - multiple CPUs with Linux guest

I have just installed a 64-bit Ubuntu guest on a quad-core 64-bit Windows XP host in VirtualBox, and I am trying to get the guest to use multiple cores. However, when I go to Settings -> System -> ...
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Virtualbox Ubuntu 12.04 OS is Guest Mac OSX (Lion) is Host, share folder

Ok I have the guest additions installed and setup. I have the shared directory all setup under the devices in virtualbox. In the Guest OS I can open a terminal go to /media and type ls and see the ...
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Mount physical disk with swap included

I'm using VirtualBox and a virtual hard disk, formatted as a swap partition, for booting a virtual machine with a USB key. The guest machine is Ubuntu 10.04. I realized that there's no swap partition ...
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Cannot boot after vhd hard drive is resized in VirtualBox

In Windows 7, I set up another Windows 7 VM in VirtualBox. It worked great. Then, I needed to increase the vhd HD size. So, I used VBoxManage utility to do that with the following comment: VBoxManage ...
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Incorrect keyboard mapping on Ubuntu under VirtualBox

I've just installed Ubuntu under VirtualBox on my Windows 7 machine. All is working ok, except that when I type a hyphen (-) I get an apostrophe (') instead. This happens on the command line, in the ...
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Ubuntu VirtualBox guest not showing wireless extensions in iwconfig

I have Ubuntu 10.04 installed on my Mac using Oracle VirtualBox. My machine is connected to Wi-Fi and am able to browse the internet from within Ubuntu as well. However, iwconfig does not give an ...
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Virtualbox headless: How to join and convert segmented vmware images into vbox?

I got VMware image in 4 files: image.vmdk image-s001.vmdk image-s002.vmdk image-s003.vmdk The 1st (image.vmdk) is only an small XML file, and the actual images are in the 3 segments. I want run ...
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Does Oracle VirtualBox have any power management features?

I'd like to control VM guest's virtual power to provide me with a way to totally turn off a VM, or restart it. Does VirtualBox support IPMI or any other power management schemes? I want to remotely ...
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Routing USB devices to VirtualBox virtual machine when host OS does not have device drivers

I'm considering changing my host OS from Windows to Ubuntu and virtualizing Windows in VirtualBox, instead. But I'm worried that there will be issues with some of my devices, such as my USB devices ...

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