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VirtualBox is a free, open source virtualization program from Oracle for the x86/x86_64 architectures.

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Can't figure out how to make tunnel with tun interface

I'm trying to make Layer 3 tunnel using tun interface between 2 Ubuntu VMs running on Windows in python. Current configuration: VM1: enp0s3 my main interface 192.168.0.105 (bridged interface in ...
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PuTTY 0.67 unable to SSH into CentOS 7

When trying to ssh into a Centos 7 VM using PuTTY I'm getting "Access Denied". Here are the things that I tried based on other solved answers: unchecked GSSAPI set PermitRootLogin to yes tried sshing ...
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VirtualBox causes host BSOD starting VM under Windows 10. Hyper-V is off

I have a freshly-installed 64-bit Windows 10 system, with VirtualBox installed and a CentOS 7.0 VM image. Whenever I try to start the VM, Windows BSODs with SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION, code 0x0000003b. ...
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Is update to Windows 10 FCU frozen or just taking too long?

I have a VirtualBox VM with Windows 10 that I only use every few weeks. I checked for updates today, and among other things asked me to upgrade windows saying it would take a long time. I decided to ...
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i5-2520M with 2c/t showing 4 cores in VirtualBox, what does that mean?

I have a T420 i5-2520M with 2 cores / 4 threads, but in VirtualBox, it appears that I have 4 cores that I can use. Does this mean that: VirtualBox will be not using the 2 cores but all the 4 threads?...
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Does hibernation on host machine damage guest machine?

I have a host machine running Windows 10 and a guest machine running Linux. Sometimes I hibernate the host but I forget to shutdown the guest machine. Does hibernation on the host machine while the ...
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How to uninstall Virtualbox on windows10?

I would like to uninstall Virtualbox from my Windows10 computer, but I can not find it in the Programs and Features list. I was looking for an uninstaller exe in the install directory and on the ...
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VirtualBox can not run as normal user.

I installed VirtualBox as administrator in windows 7, then I switch to a normal user, installed a Ubuntu in VirtualBox, it works fine for couple weeks, I usually use headless start virtual machine. ...
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No login shell with Vagrant SSH command

When running a virtual Ubuntu machine with Vagrant, there's something strange going on with the shell after I log in via SSH: ➜ dev-environment git:(master) vagrant ssh Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS ...
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Virtualbox follow host symlink

So I have virtualbox with shared folder linux host: /home/www/shared /home/www/shared/storage -> /home/www-storage/ what linux guest sees: /var/vb-share /var/vb-share/storage -> /home/www-...
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Give a VM internet access, but not access to other systems within the network?

Scenario: I have Ubuntu desktop with a Windows 8.1 vm via virtualbox. It has internet access and is currently set to NAT with it's own IP range. Putting it into bridged mode gives it an IP address ...
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How do I make a VM discover physical hard drives? [duplicate]

I have an SSD where I store all of my virtual disks on. I also have an 8TB drive I want to use to store all of the VM data. Example: Im running pfsense with web caching. Pfsense is on a virtual disk ...
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Why would the same drive give "Error loading OS" in SATA mode, but not in IDE?

I'm using VirtualBox, and I have a VMDK file that references \\.\PhysicalDrive2 as fullDevice. The virtual machine is in BIOS mode, set as Windows 10 x64. If I attach this VMDK file to a SATA ...
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Best settings for a VirtualBox computer to load with malware?

I'm running a Windows 7 host with a Windows XP 64 bit guest machine in VirtualBox. Simply put, I'd like to load it full of malware for recreational purposes. What are the best settings, network or ...
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Setting up DHCP for Virtualbox VMs

I have my own physical server, on which I run Ubuntu 16.04.2 Server OS as well as other virtual machines (using Virtual Box 5.1.22). I have 4 physical network cards which I want to bundle to each ...
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Can a computer's primary OS & the programs running under a different OS on a VM share data files?

I am developing a statistical application on a Windows machine. I have never worked for any length of time under any other OS. I would like to test my programs under some flavor of Linux for the ...
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Error installing packages using chocolatey behind virtualbox

I have my windows virtual machine in virtualbox, Internet connectivity works fine. I installed chocolatey windows package manager using https://chocolatey.org/install. However installation of packages ...
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Windows 10 guest OS stuck booting in Virtualbox on Ubuntu 16.04 host

Microsoft offers these downloadable virtual machine images for cross-browser testing (IE8-IE11 and Edge). My host OS is Ubuntu 16.04 (64-bit) and I'm running Virtualbox 5.0.40_Ubuntu r115130. The ...
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Cloning Machine with VirtualBox

I am trying to clone a VirtualBox Ubuntu 16.10 instance for a remote machine. I am using VirtualBox Version 5.1.22 r115126 (Qt5.6.2). I have used Machine...Clone to clone the hard disk, which is a ....
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recreate virtualbox machine with snapshots

I have (had) a virtual machine, I still have the base image and snapshots, but the .vbox file seems to be corrupted. It is telling me that it is inaccessible. When I look inside the .vbox (shown at ...
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Displaying website running on VirtualBox guest VM OS on browser on the host computer?

I am running a Debian server as a VM in VirtualBox, which itself is running on a (real) Windows 7 computer. For test purposes, I need to be able to access a web application running on the Debian VM ...
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NAT port forwarding of privileged port fails when using Vagrant with VirtualBox

I want to support connecting to the guest on privileged ports—such as port 80—when using Vagrant with VirtualBox but it doesn’t seem to work. What is the best option on how to handle this? I am ...
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Install a VirtualBox with a commandline attached iso

I have created a VirtualBox, that has not yet an OS installed. If I attach a bootable iso file with OS installer via GUI->settings->network and start the box per gui or per VBoxManage, the OS is ...
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Oracle VBox wrong resolutions

the fact that am posting here means i have already wasted enough time researching on this, so my vbox goes to the right resolution for windows 7 but i had kali linux and chrome os all go to a 4:3 (...
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Virtual box network connections

I was searching for a solution to setup network connection to my virtualbox I am having Windows and linux boxes in my virtual box environment. As I need to keep static IP address for my connection, i ...
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[Solved]Windows 10 stuck at Windows 10 Logo at boot

I have a Virtual Box running Windows 10, every time a bigger Update is installed at the shutdown, the next time I start the Virtual Box Windows 10 gets stuck at the Windows 10 Logo. I have the ...
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Linux connect from host to VirtualBox Guest over virtual serial port

I need to retrieve config file from guest VM without network support. The simplest way to do that is probably to use serial port. As far as I understand I need to create kind of serial port "loop" so ...
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Virtualbox NAT and host-only connection

Because I'm working on multiple locations, I experience problems with my development servers. Because work on a variety of networks I do not want to configure the networking settings of my virtual ...
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Emulate Raspberry Pi architecture on a personal computer

Is there a way to create a virtual ARM architecture machine so that I could create Raspberry Pi images on my PC? For instance, I would like to create an Ubuntu Server 17.04 image that I could burn to ...
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Make virtualbox not capture keyboard/mouse

I have virtualbox on Windows 7. The guests are CentOS. The guests do have guest extensions, but do not have X. And while I can mount a shared folder, the window (with a root console in it) still "...
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VMware vs virtualbox for mac osx guest, does vmware support guest additions?

I spent hours downloading and setting up an image for mac os sierra for virtualbox then I find out there is no guest additions for mac osx from virtualbox. So graphics slow and laggy. Resolutions not ...
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Can VirtualBox run operating systems designed for ARM processors? [duplicate]

For example, can I run Android, which is mostly run on ARM processors, run on VirtualBox on x86 Intel processors? I am aware of Android x86, however, that is not a viable solution.
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Is it possible to hide the window of a VirtualBox VM until it has finished starting?

Is it possible to hide the window of a VirtualBox VM until it has finished starting? Or, until X seconds have passed? I want to use "seamless" mode and make it even more seamless by not showing the VM ...
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Bridged network on VirtualBox with Lubuntu

I have imported an Ubuntu system (Lubuntu) in VirtualBox and setted Bridged network in the settings of Virtual Machine but it can't still connect to web. If I try to ping my router it returns "Host ...
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Internet is not running on Virtual machine

I am using using virtual box on windows 10, my guest machine is Mac OS X El Capitan. Host machine(Windows 10) is connected to wi-fi, but no internet on guest machine. I tried every solution available ...
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How to create a virtualbox vm internet sandbox (linux guest) on a debian stretch host

I want to ensure that the host cannot access the internet. While internet traffic is free to travel to and from the vm guest, and more importantly I want to make sure the internet traffic cannot reach ...
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VirtualBox - high performance I/O tuning - is it possible?

I'm running workstation that heavily relies on virtualization. I chose VirtualBox because: unlike VMWare it's free and much more portable and maintenance-free (no need to troubleshoot issues with ...
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Can't access docker container on virtualbox from Internet

I have ToolBox installed on Windows 10. Have created machine, and Nginx container, opened outside on port 8000. Docker machine's IP is 192.168.99.100, container's IP is 172.17.0.2. I can access Nginx ...
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VMWare Bridged Connection Has Lost Network Connection

I am running VMWare Product: VMware Workstation 12 Pro Version: 12.0.1 build-3160714 and have been for about the past year, and today when I fire up one of my VM's my Bridged connection no longer is ...
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CentOS i686 virtualization

I am 100% newbie to unix, so my question is quite simple, although very important to me :-) I need to install a software that runs on CentOS with i386 architecture. Since I do not have CentOS on my ...
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Virtual Box windows 8 on mac and the screen resolution is 1024x768 not 1366x768

I am running windows 8 on a Virtual Box on a mac and the setting on the windows only allows 1024 x 768. I want 1366 x 768 so can somebody help?
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Is there anything that makes VM wares different to normal OS for virus scanners?

As I'm often using VM wares for my job I stumbled a few times over a problem with the virus scanner I'm using (Avast). It works normally on my PC, but whenever I'm working from inside a VM Ware and ...
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Windows10 bypassed my bogus proxy, or did it?

I'd like to know what could I have done to let Windows bypass a fake proxy setting. I want to keep Windows 10 host offline while the guest machine would be able to use the internet. I just need 10 ...
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Can an antivirus installed in the host machine detect a virus inside a guest OS in a virtual machine?

This is back in 2014. Question: Is the antivirus supposed to detect a virus which is running inside a guest OS inside a virtual machine? If yes, does this mean the host can be also in danger, or ...
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Wireless network causes virtual machines to be inaccessible by outside world

I currently have two Ubuntu 14.04 virtual machines running on a windows 7 host. The virtual machines are configured to use a bridged network adapter. When the host machine is hardlined to the ...
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Idea to do “fake” wifi between local VMBox

I am the developper of Live Raizo, an Linux environment to experiment the system on simulated and real networks. LiveRaizo uses mainly VirtualBox with GNS3 as puppeteer I want to add Wifi ...
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Suddenly no windows, no taskbar no right clicks on Kubuntu 17.04 on Virtual Box 5.1.22

For no apparent reason when I started Kubuntu on Vbox today I had no taskbar, no right-click, and no left click on the desktop. When I hover the mouse over where the taskbar used to be I can see a ...
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Virtual Box Guest Additions not working as expected

I created a Ubuntu 14.04.5 virtual machine in Virtual Box 5.0.2, and my host machine is under LMDE 2. Since a few weeks ago, everytime I create a new VM the guest additions won't work properly ...
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VirtualBox: Run from external drive

I am trying to get Virtual Box to run Windows and a program that ask for specific folders in the same External Hard Drive which is running Virtual Box. I initially set the folders using VirtualBox's ...
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Import and activate connection with nmcli as normal user

When trying to import the settings for a VPN into network manager using nmcli connection import type openvpn file settings.ovpn nmcli throws an error saying 'insufficient privileges'. I am using ...
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