VirtualBox is a free, open source virtualization program from Oracle for the x86/x86_64 architectures.
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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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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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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: ...
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Run virtual machine at startup
I have a Windows server that runs in a virtual machine on Linux Mint.
I have a command in the "start up apps" to start it when I log in, but I'd like it to start when Linux starts, before anyone logs ...
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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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Booting ArchLinux image under VirtualBox with EFI mode issue
I've spend a bunch of time trying to boot ArchLinux image using VirtualBox (v.4.2.6) with EFI mode enabled under Windows 7. All I get is UEFI shell without any evidence of image successfully booted. ...
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Can't install JRE on Win8 VM
I'm running a Windows 8 x86 VM in Oracle Virtualbox, on a Windows 8 x64 host (don't ask why, I don't know either), and I need to install the Java Runtime Environment on it, but I'm having problems ...
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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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Fedora 18 in Oracle VirtualBox on Windows Vista
I want to install Fedora 18 [Desktop] in Oracle VirtualBox 4.2.10 r84104. [My system is Windows Vista 32 bit]
I have followed the following steps while configuring the Virtual Machine.
Memory Size ...
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Should I transfer windows installation to VirtualBox
I have a dual boot with Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7. I use Windows 7 rarely and it consumes a lot of space (25 GB). I only use Office and IE (my dad uses it for accessing a bank website which supports ...
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Running Ubuntu with a WIN7 VM in order to use Photoshop
I'm a front-end dev who basically codes html/css/php; I have a Vaio Laptop and I chose to go with Ubuntu because of the ease of use of tools such as Git, the possibility to do native testing with a ...
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Mac Host Chrome browser slower than Linux VM Chrome browser
I am having an odd issue on my computer, a Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8), that has a VirtualBox VM for Ubuntu 12.04. Naturally, I would think that using my host machine (Mac) should be overall faster ...
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94% Memory usage on Host OS using VirtualBox
I'm running a 32 bit Windows 7 Guest on a 64 bit install of VirtualBox 4.2.10 r84104. The Host OS is Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit. The host os has 8GB of memory and the guest is told to utilize 2GB max.
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IE9/IE10 loads webpages but doesn't update the display until the window is scrolled
So I click a link in IE9/IE10 and nothing appears to happen.
I notice that the tab icon updates and spins as well as the tab text says the usual things.
I open Fiddler and click another link. ...
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VboxManage guestcontrol exec not starting
I have a Win7 x64 host machine running a Virtualbox (4.2.12) with a clean Win7 x64 guest machine. I installed the guest additions on the guest machine.
I want to launch a program on the guest machine ...
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Why should I use Vagrant instead of just Virtualbox?
I've been using Virtualbox for many years to create a development environment.
A lot of my colleagues are talking about Vagrant and many people seem very excited about it but I just can't seem to ...
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Windows 7 virtualbox: incremental backups of data directories inside the Linux VM?
I've got a virtualbox running on a Windows 7 laptop and I would like to have backups for the content of specific directories in the Ubuntu 12.04 guest OS running in the machine. One possibility I see ...
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Virtualbox hard resets host machine
My host is running Ubuntu 12.10 x64 desktop with the latest version of VirtualBox installed. The guest OS is Ubuntu 12.10 x64 server edition. I originally created and was using this VirtualBox guest ...
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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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virtualbox: can not switch the guest display to fullscreen mode
I cannot bring up the fullscreen mode in my guest Ubuntu 12.04 machine using Windows 7 when the external screen is not plugged in. I tried disabling the second screen in the guest OS and I get the ...
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Windows 8 in Virtualbox: Can't use Windows Phone 8: Device not recognized
So I bought WP8 device (HTC 8S) that I'd like to use as a hardware platform for some WP programming (I have an academic marketplace account, so I can authorize my phone for app deployment).
V: ...
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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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Kernel panics in FreeBSD 9.1 virtualbox
I'm regularly encountering a kernel panic on my FreeBSD 9 laptop. I have installed virtualbox host and trying to run CentOS as guest. When perform "yum repolist" guest crash's my freebsd host.
Here ...
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How to start script in VirtualBox Linux guest from Windows host?
I have a following build system:
Windows host with a set of source files that need to be build
Linux guest inside VirtualBox with build server
Now I mount filesystem through virtual box shared ...
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compatible AltTab between Windows 7 and Virtualbox with Ubuntu Linux?
I am running a Virtualbox Ubuntu Linux on a Windows 7 system and use Alt+Tab all the time to switch between windows within the Linux system. I would also like to be able to use an alternative keyboard ...
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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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Store Virtualbox Guest Files on Host OS
Background: I'm running Windows 7 as a host and Debian as a guest OS. I often create backups of the hard drive, but run into the issue that my files are stored in 2 locations, Windows NTFS volume and ...
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network to NAT in Virtual Box and strange IP
I have just installed CENT-OS in a Virtual Box inside the internal network. The network setup is set to 'attached to NAT'. When I enable the network interface in CENTOS I can see that my IP address is ...
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Ubuntu guest, OSX host - cannot connect guest to internet
I have a Virtualbox instance running the latest Ubuntu hosted on OSX. Things worked fine until today when, for no apparent reason, Ubuntu stopped raising the network card on startup.
I've fiddled ...
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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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Using TOR on VirtualBox
I'm doing a rebuild on my computer at home. I need to have both both Windows and Linux simultaneously, so I normally use Windows with Linux installed on Virtual Box. I downloaded and installed TOR in ...
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Virtualbox 4.2.10 Auto resize not working. Will auto-resize down but not up unless in full screen
Using Virtualbox 4.2.10 with Windows 7 as host and guest.
If I press Ctrl+F, the OS goes full screen. If I check the resolution, it says 1680×1050 -- same size as my host OS that has many ...
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How to create local network in virtualbox between Ubuntu server
I created a Ubuntu server on virtualbox that Ubuntu server install with minimal virtual machine.
I created the three linked clone and I have internal network between them. I removed ...
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VirtualBox resource usage of guest machine
Is there any way I can measure CPU, RAM, DISK IO & other stats of Guest machine from any VirtualBox API? Means, the actual hardware stats.
I run "top" in my Ubuntu guests to read stats in ...
