Questions tagged [virtualbox]
VirtualBox is a free, open source virtualization program from Oracle for the x86/x86_64 architectures.
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Virtual Box - Losing IP in bridged network
I have an Ubuntu VM in which I deployed images and the rootfs for my U-Boot. In the VirtualBox (Version 5.0.2) Settings I have adjusted a Bridged Adapter. In this image you can see my set-up:
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Unable to export physical Linux system to VirtualBox VM
I would like to save my Linux system (including packages, files, and configuration) and export it to another laptop in the form of a virtual machine with VirtualBox.
I have been able to create a file ...
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Install Ubuntu on USB within VirtualBox
In order to test the stability of Btrfs-RAID1 I wanted to install Ubuntu on two USB sticks from within Virtualbox.
What I would like to achieve:
Having a btrfs-based RAID1-System that boots on ...
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Cannot delete VirtualBox snapshot due to "insufficient space"
My disk is full because my VirtualBox snapshots are consuming a large amount of space. But, I cannot delete the snapshots because there's insufficient space.
I would rather have my snapshots stored ...
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Unable to install Ubuntu 14 in Virtual Box
I'm running VirtualBox 5.0.8 in Windows 10 Home and am trying to install 32 bit Ubuntu 14.04.3 as a VM. When I run Ubuntu, it shows the VM splash screen and tries to load, but I get this error:
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Forensics - scan guest OS (WinXP) and files from host OS (Win7 64) using VMWare Player or VirtualBox
I have a Windows XP laptop that was infected with a virus; the virus was removed but network connectivity was jacked up. I boot to Ubuntu from a USB key to move files between the system and the ...
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Does VirtualBox Guest Additions relate to Virtual Box Edition? (Can I installed GE on Windows guest and move to Unix host)
SO my question is if I am running different VirtualBox versions/hosts does it matter if I install Guest Additions from one host and move to another?
IE: Create Windows Guest on Windows Host Installe ...
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Virtualization BIOS setting Windows 10
So, I want to enable Virtualization in the BIOS to get VirtualBox working on my Windows 10 PC.
I successfully made it into the BIOS, from the Settings app. On Youtube tutorials on how to change the ...
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Trying to install kali on virtual box gets:VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED
I am attempting to install kali using virtual box here is a picture of my setup:
I have downloaded the iso file from https://www.kali.org/downloads/
However when i attempt to use the iso file i get ...
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virtualbox guest (win 7) on linuxmint host (17.2) menu and taskbar inactive in full screen
I am running virtualbox 5.02 on a linuxmint host (kde desktop, linuxmint 17.2) and running a windows guest (win 7).
After some time of using this guest (around one month) the windows 7 menu and ...
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Cloudera Quickstart VM doesn't work properly in VirtualBox after updating
The Cloudera Quickstart VM version 5.4 is woefully out of date. When I did a yum upgrade it wanted to download 930 packages, totaling 2.8GB. Once I did this and reboot, the VM desktop no longer ...
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Virtual box multiple adapter settings issue
In virtual-box i have 2 VM's which has Xubuntu in one and Ubuntu Server in the other.
I have selected 2 Adapters in Network settings 'NAT' and 'Host-only Adapter'.
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Xubuntu gets correctly 2 ...
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How do the HortonWorks and MAPR VMs receive connections on localhost?
I just downloaded both the Hortonworks and the MAPR VMs for VirtualBox. Both of them start up VirtualBox and then give a UI that looks like this:
What I don't understand is this: how do the VMs, ...
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Accessing an nginx webserver on CentOS7 VM hosted on Virtualbox in Windows 10
Setup:
A single CentOS 7.1 VM running on a Windows 10 Pro server (preview version 10074), inside Virtualbox 5 beta 4 (also tested on 4.3.8). Using nginx/1.9.0, to serve static HTML files.
The VM is ...
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Virtual Machine and Virus
I have a requirement for which I have to get online without protection (firewall, anti-virus). At the same time, I don't want to risk getting infected with viruses.
If I install a virtual machine (...
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Forwarding host OS USB drives to guest as hard drive in Oracle VirtualBox
I have DOS 6.22 running in Oracle VirtualBox.
Now to the question; is it possible to forward USB drives on the host OS to the guest OS (DOS) as a hard drive?
So instead of using a disk image, you ...
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Host-only-like interface in KVM
I just migrated from Virtualbox to KVM, everything is very good. But I've a little bit confused in network adapter type.
In Virtualbox I have host-only adapter, which are virtual nic (no bridge), and ...
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Stretch window across two screens in windowed mode
This question is specific to making one guest "screen", in windowed mode, wide enough to span two physical monitors on the host. I know how to get two guest screens in Virtualbox (easy!) or in VMware (...
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Resize a VM hard-drive (virtualbox)
Is there a way to resize a VM hard drive? I am using virtualbox and I have a VM that has run out of space, looked into the settings but it seems I may have to create another partition. I thought ...
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how to install software to a VM using chocolatey
Now I am struggling with install software to vagrant Vm. I took some file from this Link but it didn’t work.
After create the vagrant box. I run the vagrant up command to create the VM it worked. ...
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I have a VirtualBox image of win-xp, need to let it connect to the internet. How?
I have a VirtualBox image of win-xp, need to let it connect to the internet.
The host is Ubuntu 64bit.
What are the necessary steps I should take?
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How to establish internet connection via VB if I use VPN on host?
I have host Windows machine with VPN connection and Internet connection and also I have Linux machine on VB.
Linux machine has NAT connection with host and great works with VPN sites. But one ...
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After upgrade to Windows 10, some programs can't be uninstalled
I had the same issue with several programs since I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 (x64), but right now it's VirtualBox:
I previously had VirtualBox 4.2.16 installed, then came the Windows ...
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Development machine setup - shifting from Linux to Windows
I am liking Windows 7 (using, 7600-RTM), mainly because of the window-snapping feature, especially the 50%-two windows on the desktop feature. It does increase productivity. Plus, at times, I have to ...
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See a SSHFS mounted folder in a VM Share Folder in Windows
Basicly I have a virtual machine running linux.
The virtual machine Shared folder is at /vmshare inside the guest and C:\vmshare on the host.
It should be noted that inside the guest something like ...
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How can I get a low power virtual machine?
How can I get a low power Linux virtual machine?
I usually use virtual machines on my laptop to use some GNU/Linux programs, and I've found that at the very moment I start a Virtual Box machine, the ...
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Why is VirtualBox (Windows host) only allowing 32-bit Linux guests? [duplicate]
I have a fairly new cpu/mb etc. and I'm running a 64-bit version of Windows 10. I did select the bios features for virtualization.
Unfortunately, I am unable to install, with Virtualbox, any 64-...
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Unable to ping guest from host and vise versa in Oracle Virtual Box
This is my Oracle Virtual Box Version 4.2.18 r88780
Details of my host machine
Operating System : Scientific Linux 6.4
I am using static ip
root@localhost ~]# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:...
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Virtual Box virtual machine guest OS screen is not resizing in Windows 10
I have guest additions installed on my Virtual Box, so that the screen is a decent size. When I start Virtual Box, the screen resizes properly. I am running Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), the guest OS ...
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install .ova on physical machine
Hortonworks Sandbox is available only as .ova file.
I need to install it on physical machine without esx, or VirtualBox, just raw machine.
Is that possible? If so, how to install it?
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Installing Windows 7 on VM VirtualBox
I got this error message when I was trying to install Windows 7 on VM VirtualBox:
VM: Raising runtime error 'HostMemoryLow' (fFlags=0x2)
00:03:39.566757 AssertLogRel F:\tinderbox\win-4.3\src\VBox\VMM\...
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Networking in Virtualbox
I am trying to set up a VM in VirtualBox on Linux (Fedora 22). Its network must have the following properties:
IP address is 192.168.1.2/24
Default gateway is 192.168.1.1
No DHCP
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How to create an empty floppy image with VirtualBox Windows guest?
Is there a way to create empty floppy disk images, which I can use with VirtualBox?
The client is Windows XP.
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Virtualbox in a Ubuntu Docker Container is missing Kernel Headers
I'm trying to run virtualbox in Docker for the use of vagrant. I try to achieve that with Ubuntu.
This is my Dockerfile:
FROM ubuntu
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -y software-properties-...
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Map virtual box machine to a drive letter in windows
How can i map a drive letter to virtual box vm in windows? So for instance, i want a folder /home/user in my virtual machine to be mapped to the x: drive in windows? The vm is connected via host only ...
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Can't see second virtual monitor from xrandr
I'm running an Arch linux guest on Virtualbox 5.0.6, on an OS X 10.11 host, with the latest guest additions installed. I'm using i3wm as a desktop.
I've added 2 virtual monitors to my VM but can see ...
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VirtualBox - bridged adapter settings fail in Windows 7 host
Consider a Windows 7 64-bit host where the VirtualBox guest is configured to use Bridged Adapter.
An exception is raised when starting this guest machine:
Failed to open/create the internal network ...
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CentOS boots to login prompt but shows black screen after authentication
I run CentOS 6.4 inside VirtualBox on a Windows PC for work. Recently, my machine crashed while the VM was still running and had to be power-cycled. Upon reboot, everything in Windows was fine, but my ...
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How to reduce Virtual Box's VDI size - Android guest
As in title. I use Genymotion to emulate Android devices. With time passing, VDI size increases to the point there's no space left on the partition I placed it in. After reading guides I found out ...
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How to open tomcat project from virtualbox guest?
I have a tomcat (Liferay) project, up and running on my Ubuntu laptop. So, I wanted to be able to run it on virutualbox guest.
I created the virtual machine,deployed the files and now it's up and ...
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How should I set up a version of Linux so that it will use absolutely the smallest amount of RAM possible? [closed]
I need to set up a bunch of virtual machines using virtualbox. They are all going to be used for exactly one task, and nothing else. I want to run as many as I possibly can at once, but have limited ...
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What is the name of the network bridge adapter on Mac OS for VirtualBox?
I'm trying to configure VirtualBox on my Mac, and I'm not sure which one of these options I want.
en0 and bridge both give:
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How can I shrink a VMware multi-volume disk?
I'm familiar with shrinking the total space of a virtual disk on Oracle VirtualBox using their vboxmanage.exe command line tool for shrinking.
Now I have a VMware multi-volume disk (vmdk), and I've ...
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Cannot get an Oracle Linux 6.4 virtual machine guest OS connected to network. Cannot access it from the host machine
I have a web server running on Oracle Linux 6.4 on VirtualBox. It has an eth1 address of 10.0.2.15. I want to be able to run a web server from this virtual machine, but I can’t access the virtual ...
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restrict shared folders on virtualbox?
I'm a bit rusty on virtualbox.
I have a VM with this setup
You see an icon to access the Host machine, and the C drive available.
I would like to temporarily amend that to just a particular folder ...
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Cannot connect to VRDE session
I'm trying to connect to a headless virtual machine, but the connection keeps on being closed:
$ rdesktop 192.168.1.8:5012
Autoselected keyboard map en-us
ERROR: Connection closed
VRDE seems to be ...
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Share a vpn connection from a virtual machine with windows 7 to the host
I need to connect to a Junos Pulse vpn and due configurations of the vpn this is possible only on windows and Mac the problem is I have Linux so I install virtualbox and virtual machine with Windows 7 ...
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Unable to route http requests to Virtualbox guest from external clients
I have a Virtualbox guest running Ubuntu 14.04 and a node.js web server. The Virtualbox host is a Windows 8.1 client. After setting up the node server, I am having some difficulty providing access ...
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Virtualbox - Headless start - connect via VBoxmanager
I am running a VBox-VM in headless mode via automatic task on WinSRV 2012r2.
I use the following code: VBoxManage.exe startvm Router --type headless
Is it possible to connect to the VM via Virtual ...
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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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