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Use the same VM wtih VMware player and Virtualbox
I have some problems with my VMWare player installation (possibly a bug). So, I want to try to run my VMs with VirtualBox, without converting them.
So, is it safe to run my VMs with VirtualBox and ...
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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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Does a virtual machine realise that it is virtual? [closed]
I know that from a design point of view, the idea of a virtual machine is that the entire system environment is replicated so that the virtual machine is in outward appearance a full machine, but my ...
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bare minimum processor speed to run only one virtual machine [closed]
What is the bare minimum processor speed to run only one virtual machine VM Comfortably in vmware on a laptop
I ask because I had to choose earlier between getting a laptop(with 8gb ram) with either ...
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shrink size of ova file in virtualbox
I've got an Ubuntu 64bit VM that I derived from a ~1GB ova file, I used it under VMware vSphere to install some more software on it and use the system against a few datasets that took some 2-3GB of ...
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Virtualisation in a managed/one-app environment
So, I'm very interested in running my testing machines and servers virtually and considered vmware, VirtualBox, VirtualPC and qemu. From all those solutions, I like qemu and VirtualBox most, but both ...
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Unable to bridge network connection to any hypervisor
I have a Virtual-PC hard drive that I need to run with bridged networking so that it gets an IP address on the same network the host OS is running on. However, on this particular computer, I am ...
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Poor performance of single processor 32bit Windows XP xompared SMP in VBA+Excel
Welcome!
On many computers I experienced poor performance of 32 bit guests running on 64 bit Linux host (I used only the Debian family). At last I managed to collect benchmark data.
I made the ...
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virtualized windows 7 from existing disk
I have a laptop that is non functional that had windows vista installed on it. Is it possible to virtualize its harddrive onto my mac?
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VM: Windows 7 host, Linux guest, VT-d?
I am sick of the driver issues of Linux. So I am planning to switch to Windows 7 as a host and virtualize my Linux into it. My laptop has integrated Intel graphics and supports VT-d. For speed reasons ...
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Can I use android app on PC?
I use android-x86 on PC using VMware or virtualbox.
I wonder how I can install android application.
(Assume that the app is freely available from android market.)
My PC OS is Windows 7 (32bit)
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How to make VirtualBox or VMWare (or any other virtualization software) use a native guest network driver?
I've just posted something in stackoverflow and was asked to post this question here. I have a problem I could use some help with... I am really not an expert in virtualization, so I don't know if ...
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VirtualBox versus VMware [closed]
I would like to know the pros and cons of using VMware versus using VirtualBox in the context of supporting different operating system environments on the same hosts. Are these competing packages or ...
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memory usage of virtual machine more than setting
host:win7 8GRAM
guest:win7 1GRAM
I tried both on VirtualBox and vmware
when guest stop, the free memory of host is 4G~6G
when guest running but "nothing" is working in guest, the free memory ...
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Can I have direct access to wi-fi (i.e. wlan0 device) in virtual machine running on Windows host?
I want to run wi-fi tools on Linux inside of a Windows 7 host. So I need to have the wlan0 device listed in my Linux guest.
I have tried VirtualBox and VMware. No luck so far. Is it even possible?
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Turning a (dual boot) Ubuntu 9 into a virtual machine
I have a dual boot box (Ubuntu 9 and Vista) and I'm about to upgrade Vista to Win 7. Being Ubuntu my main development environment, I'd like to use it as it is from the new environment via VirtualBox ...
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Backtrack 5 R2 vmware Image Type
I downloaded BackTrack 5 R2; Image Type: VMWare.
I thought because it's name is VMWare it will look for the "Oracle VM VirtualBox" program but it wont work. so should I just download the iso version, ...
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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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Simulate / Emulate a computer to test linux in
So I am not foreign to linux and installing different distros on my Macbook Pro, but I was wondering if there was a less painful way of setting up and testing linux. I was wondering whether there was ...
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VMware ESX or ESXi to run WIndows 7 and Ubuntu?
I understand now that a Type 2 (or hosted) hypervisor is the same as using VMware or VirtualBox within an existing operating system, so I want Type 1.
Using a Type 1 (or native, bare metal) ...
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how to access virtual machine through web browser?
I recently got Damn Small Linux running inside Virtual Box on Linux Mint. I was wondering if there was any way to let people connect to one of my DSL virtual machines through their web browsers from ...
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Using VMware/Virtual box to simulate a cluster of nodes, but actually using a single machine
I am developing a webapp using Cassandra database which works on a multi-nodes cluster. But I don't have multiple machines to create a cluster while development. How do I create a cluster using the ...
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VMWare VM's network card not working after VirtualBox installed
I use VMWare workstation and have had no problems with my virtual machines and bridging the network card. However, I installed Virtualbox to check it out and ever since I can't establish a network ...
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How i can install BusyBox on Virtual Machine?
How i can install BusyBox on Virtual Machine? For instance, VMVare or VirtualBox? Where I can see some manuals about this problem?
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What Virtualization Servers support Windows Clients with Direct X?
In advance I'd like to state this question is similar to its predecessors here and here but, those questions are old and I would like an up to date answer based on current technology.
I want to host ...
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Convert VMDK to ISO
I have a disk image that is in VMDK format, and I would like to convert this to an ISO so that I could use this outside of a virtual environment. I know that, at first impression, these formats don't ...
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Can Oracle Virtualbox open vmdk virtual disk created by VMWare?
I have a vmdk virtual disk that was created by VMWare. Can I option and load it from VirualBOX?
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How do I convert a physical mac to a Virtual Machine [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I convert my OS X Lion into a VMware virtual machine?
Seems to be easy to do from Windows or Linux, but not finding much on how to do it with a mac.
VMWare would be ...
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How do I recover files from my Windows 7 VirtualBox partition?
I have Windows Vista Installed on my laptop.
I ran and created a virtual OS from VMware. Inside that OS, I created 2 partitions and stored the files on the second drive.
Now my Windows 7 installed ...
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Host system resets (crashes) when using VMWare or VirtualBox and 64-bit guest systems
I have been trying to install virtual systems on VMWare for a while now and encountered strange behaviour from my PC.
The behaviour is as follows:
On "automatic" virtualization mode it either ...
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VirtualBox says “No bootable medium found!”
I downloaded the latest mu microsoft hpc pack 2008 r2 with service pack 2 x86 x64 dvd 709909.iso.
Both VMWare Workstation and Oracle's VirtualBox give me an option to select an ISO file . When I do ...
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physical machine to virtual machine and place into VirtualBox
I am trying to take a newly created virtual machine and have it run on VirtualBox. I want to create a virtual machine out of my existing machine (Windows 7 Pro 64bit) so I used VMWare's free ...
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Use VMWare Workstation or VirtualBox to emulate Windows 7 on Windows 7?
I've got a highly optimized Windows 7 for making music.
Up until now I dual-booted into another copy of Windows 7.
I use that for Photoshop, testing applications and regular work so the registry of ...
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Network cuts off when using Bridged mode on Virtual Machine
I have tried Parallels Desktop 6, VMWare Fusion and VirtualBox when trying to run a Virtual Machine with a Bridged network adapter. I simply select the adapter interface (en0) and then press on.
When ...
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High performance desktop virtulization / multithreading on the guest with linux 64 bit host
For over 3 years I have been trying to get similar guest performance in 64 bit windows as I have on my i7 870 at work in the tasks I do at work. My requirements are pretty taxing. I need fast CPU, ...
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Do VMware, Virtualbox & Virtual PC play nicely together?
Lately VirtualBox has been a bit unstable and I want to try other VMs.
If I install VMware and Virtual PC on the same host as VirtualBox will it cause problems (eg. crash the host)? What if I try to ...
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Win2k8R2 + Hyper-V + MacPro = Virtualized OSX Allowed?
I have an older (2007 or 2008 i think) Mac Pro. Its a Dual Dual Xeon 2.6 with 12Gb RAM, and i installed Windows 2008 R2 Server on it with HyperV. Apple have something in their license that specifies ...
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How compatible are VMWare and VirtualBox?
At my workplace, everyone uses VMware Player (and some people have licenses for Workstation). We frequently share VMs to save time on development setup. However, I would really like to take advantage ...
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Bridged vs. NAT: a Virtualbox and VMWare Comparison
I installed VMWare Workstation 7.1.x and Virtualbox 4.0.8 on two different hosts, so I could compare.
I set the virtual network adapter on both to NAT, which was successful for both. The result:
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Where can I download copies of a Windows XP ISO image with Internet Explorer 6 or Internet Explorer 7 for VirtualBox?
I have Windows 7 Professional hosting Ubuntu inside VirtualBox for my development machine. To test my site, I run Internet Explorer and hit my Ubuntu box. This works great for ...
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Virtualbox and IDS
I am working on a project for grad school and I am way over my head. The goal is to set up three VM's, I am using Virtualbox. One being Windows XP (the victim), the second VM running of form of ...
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How do I import a VMWare image into VirtualBox 4.0x? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to import VMWare Workstation 7 VM into Sun VirtualBox (latest version)?
How do I import a VMWare 3.0x image into VirtualBox 4.0x ? VirtualBox no longer has the ...
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If my company can buy a copy of Virtual Machine on the Mac, which should I buy?
I think VirtualBox might be too troublesome and slow to use. My company is willing to buy a copy of Virtual machine for me I think, is VM Ware, Parallels, or other products (for Mac) the best in your ...
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What is the best way to configure an Ubuntu virtual machine to be shared (not copied!) between PC and Mac?
I know I can create and share a VM between both Mac and PC (same machine technically--my Mac Pro with both OS X and Boot Camp) using Parallels, VMware or VirtualBox (all of which I'm a paid user for ...
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Extracting from VirtualBox or VMWare vHDD
I have VirtualBox installed in my system. I installed Windows XP Pro SP3 in VB. Then installed all the applications I need, ie. MS Office, Winamp etc.
Now, if the OS I use crashes, Can I extract the ...
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Limiting CPU speed in a virtual machine?
Does anyone know of a way to limit the CPU speed in a virtual machine? Or if there is even a vm software that allows you to do this?
I am trying to find the minimum requirements for a system, given ...
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Vmware/Virtualbox Use host's IP address
I have created a Windows Server 2008 guest from a Linux host but I am having trouble making the guest use the same IP address as the host. Currently the guest is being assigned an IP such as ...
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How to reverse Windows 7 hosting CentOS VMware image?
My development environment is CentOS 5.5 x64 running under VMware hosted within a Windows 7 x64 environment. This is "alright" but the VMware image isn't very responsive even with 2 cores and 3GB of ...
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Installing then Running VMware or VirtualBox causes my Windows 7 PC to not boot up after shutting down?
At work I use a Windows 7 PC but I am a programmer and face problems in Windows while working on some types of development, so I want to have a virtual Ubuntu Linux machine that I can use when I ...
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virtual machines: optimal host os to run Windows XP guest os?
My department doesn't have the budget to upgrade my ailing Dell D620 laptop. However, I do have the option to buy my own personal computer, then use my company-issued ISO image to run Windows XP as my ...
