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Issues with VirtualBox Win7 Host & Win 8 Guest
I installed VB 4.2.12 on Windows 7. I also installed Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.12. I then created a Win 8 Guest on it & I am able to boot up and work on the Windows 8 Guest OS.
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How to adjust screen size for VirtualBox VMs?
I'm trying to use FreeBSD on VirtualBox, and everything seems to be working fine.
However, I'm quite annoyed by the default size of VB VM screens.
The BSD console just has a very low resolution and ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Special instructions for CentOS VBox virtual machine?
I am gearing up to create a CentOS 5.5 server virtual machine in VBox and was wondering if there are special instructions, configurations or settings that I should be aware of ahead of time.
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Which CentOS ISO to use for my virtual machine? [closed]
I have a physical server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga). I would like to create a virtual machine (using VirtualBox) with a binary-compatible version of CentOS server as ...
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Ubuntu on Hyper-V vs Virtualbox
I currently run Lubuntu inside Virtualbox on top of OSX (an iMac). For my purposes (Linux software development), this works fine.
Recently, I have been considering getting a Win8 Pro box.
If I want ...
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How can I get qemu's Ctrl+Alt keys working in -curses mode?
So here's the situation; I currently have qemu installed on an OpenBSD 5.3 snapshot. This is a console setup so I have to either run with -curses or -nographic. The problem here is that I'm having ...
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Virtual Box ssh not working on Virtual Box Ubuntu machine
I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed, and 12.04 Server set up in my virtual machine.
My VM has internet access, and I can ping it from my host.
ping symfony.dev # points to 192.168.56.101, and successful ...
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normal OS boot and virtual boot in windows as vhd
Is it possible to install e.g. ubuntu on a vhd in virtualbox and boot it normally at the pc start or start it as a virtual machine in Windows 8 or Win7?
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ping using mac addresses or link local ipv6 addresses
I have 4 Virtual Machines (Ubuntu 12.04) running on a host that is also running Ubuntu 12.04.
The Virtual Machines are named:
switch-vm
vm-1
vm-2
vm-3
Below are the network settings on switch-vm:
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Can I put Windows Server 2012 onto VirtualBox on Windows XP?
If I have a PC running Windows XP SP3 32 bit on which VirtualBox is installed, could I install Windows Server 2012 in VirtualBox as it requires 64 bit?
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Enabling “execute disable” (XD) bit disables hardware assisted virtualization
My System Config
MB: Asus P8Z77 V-Pro
CPU: Intel Core i7 - 3770 @ 3.4Ghz
OS: Windows 8 Pro (64 bit)
I am trying to use Virtual Box to install Ubuntu 12.10. But the installer failed to launch and ...
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Print from Win98 vm to a printer on host that does not have 98 support
Well I managed to fit the whole question in the title.
My printer does not have Win98 support. Is there a way to print to a printer on the host that does not support windows 98?
I am using ...
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Connect to other pcs on the network from my VM
I'm running a Windows XP VM on my pc using VirtualBox using NAT configuration.
I can access the internet but unable to access any of the other PCs on the network.
One thing I noticed is my physical pc ...
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How do I install Linux drivers for my network card on a virtual machine?
I have an X64 OS and I am running Linux on a virtual machine.
My question is, how do I install Linux drivers for my network card on the virtual machine?
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converting a Virtualbox image to Xenserver [closed]
How can I use my virtualbox image in a Xenserver 6 or above? I mean is there a way to import the image to Xenserver? Secondly is there anyway we can import vmware image to Xenserver without using ...
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Fastest way to create 50 VM Clones in VirtualBox
For test purposes, we would like to create 50 clones from a single master. In general, what would be the fastest, simplest way to do this?
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Share VirtualBox VDI between computers over network
I have been working inside a Windows7 virtual machine using VirtualBox installed on my Windows7 OS on my primary PC. I would like to share that VM on my home network so that I can access the same VM ...
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VirtualBox optimization
I have Ubuntu 64-bit machine (2 core, 4GB RAM, not Core i(3/5/7).
It's running 64-bit VirtualBox.
Inside of VirtualBox runs Windows 7.
Inside Windows 7 runs one pretty heavy .NET program.
All this ...
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What could be the reason for php-pear being so slow on my local Ubuntu VM?
I got an Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (Beta) VirtualBox VM running and connect to it via SSH. When using "pear install" and try to install "phing/phing" from "http://pear.phing.info/" it takes ages for the ...
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Can I create a Virtual Machine image using MS Virtual PC and load it into Parallels/VirtualBox
As title really... I want to install Windows on a VM created in Virtual PC on my Windows7 PC, and be able to run it using Parallels or VirtualBox on my Mac.
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Can't access my computer after installing VirtualBox on it
There was a similar question 2 years ago, but everyone confused guest/host OS.
After installing VirtualBox on my Windows 7 box, I can no longer ping it or access it from anywhere within the LAN. ...
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Shared virtual machines across different hosts (different CPUs etc)
I have tried searching the web, but all I find are people dual booting OSes on the same computer and wanting to share VMs across the different OSes.
What I have is a desktop (core i7 IvyBridge,16 GB ...
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type of OS for Linux mint 14 Nadia in Oracle Virtual Box? [closed]
I have been unable to create a VM for Linux Mint. Which type of OS should I use to create a Mint VM?
Specs
I have Linux Mint, Mate and Cinnamon 32 bit ISO's. I run Windows XP SP 3 with 2 GB RAM.
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VirtualBox mouse integration issue with Ubuntu desktop
I'm having a weird problem with virtualbox on linux mint 14, My ubuntu desktop vm will not capture the mouse. The mouse pointer on the vm just stays put in the center of the screen.
I've tried ...
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How to create image of native OS
I am using Ubuntu 12.10. I want to transfer working environment of this OS to other computers by making image of it.
so this image can be run in Virtual machine on those computer.
I wanted to know ...
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Moving VM from Virtualbox to Hyper-V: networking issues
I've set up a Debian LAMP stack using this tutorial. Now I want to switch over to Hyper-V, but the networking won't work. Here's what I've done:
I've added a Virtual Switch using my external LAN ...
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Error when starting a new Linux VM in VirtualBox
I have downloaded and installed Oracle VirtualBox. After creating a new Linux VM and trying to start it, I get an error message as follows:
FATAL : NO Bootable Medium is Found ! System Halted.
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How do we reliably get mouse and keyboard control in VirtualBox when using Ubuntu Linux after restoring from system state?
The host OS is Win 8 Pro. The guest OS is Ubuntu Linux. When the VM is booted fresh, there is mouse and keyboard control. However, if I save state and then restore from saved state, I have no mouse ...
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Bad owner or permissions on /root/.ssh/config in a virtual machine
I'm using a VirtualBox VM with Debian as guest OS. In order to share SSH keys between the Windows host and the Linux guest system, I've defined the folder ~/.ssh as a shared folder. Bun now I'm ...
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Cloned virtual machine stuck at windows 7 startup [closed]
I made a clone of my virtual machine using Oracle VirtualBox. I moved the cloned drives to another computers VirtualBox where I "imported" them. The machine starts but it keeps on displaying the ...
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Application Virtualization
I have been doing alot of reading on various types of virtualization but the one that really has me confused is Application Virtualization. Not so much the sandbox aspect but the fact that you can ...
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Unable to ping virtual machine, how to troubleshoot?
I installed OpenWrt in VirtualBox with this network configuration:
access bridge
eth0
type of card: PCnet-FAST III
eth0 adress of OpenWrt is: 192.168.1.226
eth0 adress of the OS installed in my ...
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VirtualBox: Installing Guest Additions on Ubuntu 12.10 as guest OS
I use Windows 7 as host, and Ubuntu 12.10 Remix (Ubuntu with pure Gnome) as guest.
Everything working ok. I installed VBoxAdditions in regular way - using corresponding command in VirtualBox VM ...
