VirtualBox is a free, open source virtualization program from Oracle for the x86/x86_64 architectures.
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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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What causes windows 7 activation requests?
The statement: "You must activate windows within 3 days to continue using all windows features." often pops up in my notifification area on Windows 7.
My windows are legal and I have activated them ...
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VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration is not available on your system
While installing an OS, I have gotten an error like this: VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration is not available on your system. Certain guests (e.g. OS/2 and QNX) require this feature and will fail to ...
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Cannot install virtualbox-ose-guest-dkms on Ubuntu 10.04
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and kernel: 2.6.38-11-generic-pae. While using VirtualBox, i got this error:
Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
Please install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package and ...
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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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VirtualBox OSE: Install Guest OS On Headless Host Via VNC?
I've remotely installed VirtualBox OSE on my Gentoo box at home. I have everything set up and ready for the OS.
However all the documentation I've read seems to say that you can only use the PUEL ...
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Linux VirtualBox guest suddenly running extremely slow
Apologies for the very long post, I have posted this on the VirtualBox forums but the activity seems to be quite low and no responses yet so if I may, please bear with me here.
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Host Linux ...
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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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Setting up Apache + PHP web server in Virtualbox on Win 7
Running Apache and PHP on Windows with XAMPP or WAMP sucks, because installing new PHP extensions on Windows is very hard. Most binary releases for Windows don't work :(
So I was thinking to run ...
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easy_install will not connect through proxy
I'm running Ubuntu Server 10.04 64-bit under VirtualBox, and it seems that everything except easy_install and pip can connect to the Internet. I have set and exported the http_proxy environment ...
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Sharing internet connection from host to virtualized Ubuntu with Virtual Box
I have Ubuntu 11.10 in Virtual Box installed on Windows Vista. I am having a Broadband(PPPoE) internet connection. I would like to use my internet connection inside Virtual Box in Ubuntu.
I tried with ...
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creating bootable USB with win XP using a virtualbox and dd
I able to succesfully move linux installed on VirtualBox from virtual hard drive to physical usb drive.
I use unix dd command to read whole virtial harddrive and use physical usb flashdisk as output ...
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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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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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How do I change the snapshots directory in VirtualBox on Windows?
I have a SSD Hard drive representing C:\, which is only 30GB.
Therefore, I install all my (non-critical) apps on my large G:\ drive. My VirtualBox installation is on G:\, as well as the hard ...
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Backtrack 5 and Virtualbox on Windows 7
I'm trying to install backtrack linux on virtualbox on windows 7 as the host machine. I'm trying to follow this tutorial (written for mac):
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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 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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How does bridged networking work?
How does bridged networking work? I have looked through the virtualbox manuals but nothing extremely technical came up (It was just a generic gloss over of the topic) How does it assign a different ip ...
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Remote Desktop to Linux(Guest) from Mac(Host) on vbox [duplicate]
Remote Desktop to Linux(Guest) from Mac(Host) on vbox
Can someone please tell me how to remote desktop into a linux guest from a mac host
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Extending LVM partition on Debian/Virtualbox
I've just resized the Virtual Space on VirtualBox image 5G to 15G. I then used GParted to resize the physical partition which now looks like this:
and using fdisk command:
Disk /dev/sda: 16.1 GB, ...
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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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How to update to latest VirtualBox and backup files?
I want to update to the latest version of VirtualBox. How can I do it without
losing the OS I installed and the files inside? How can I backup everything
I have on VirtualBox? I currently have ...
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How can I use Windows 8 interface in non-fullscreen VirtualBox?
I made a quick attempt to try out Windows 8 in VirtualBox, non-fullscreen mode. I found it difficult to bring up the new interface elements (for example, from the desktop interface, bringing up the ...
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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 can I get the terminal in full resolution when running Ubuntu CLI in VirtualBox?
I've installed Ubuntu (latest version) with CLI only, inside VirtualBox running in Windows 7 x64. Switching to fullscreen (CTRL + F in my setup) works, but of course the terminal windows has a low ...
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How to get file ubuntu to virtual box installed windows 7
My original os is ubuntu 12.0.4 , i installed oracle virtual box in it . Then i installed windws 7 . now i need to get a file from ubuntu to windows 7 . how can i get file from ubuntu to windows
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WiFi in a kali virtual machine?
I have Kali linux installed on Virtualbox (4.2.12) and the host OS is windows 7. I have bridged the VM with the host OS.The problem is Kali is not able to detect the WiFi interface.
I searched the ...
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FATAL : No Bootable medium found! System halted
I just got a .iso of the linux distro Backtrack 5 R2. I set it up, using virtual box, and set it up to run using the .iso, and hard drive as a .vdi. Here's the setup:
System:
Base Memory: 1500 MB
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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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Quickest way to merge snapshots in VirtualBox?
I have vdi with quite a number of snapshots taken from it - say, 50 or 70 snapshots.
I want to have one plain vdi with a current state. These snapshots take way too much disk space and are not needed ...
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macbook pro windows boot and virtualize off usb drive
I want to raid two usb3 flash drives install windows onto it this new volume and be able to virtualize it or boot off of it. Any thoughts? I've heard parallels can run a bootcamp install virtually.
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VirtualBox and group policy in Windows 2008
I have some batch files that start and save virtual machines on a Windows Server 2008 box. I am using gpedit.msc to fire the bats...
I have added lines to write to a logs. There is a line written, ...
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My vbox shared mount will not auto mount and is only ready only?
My vbox shared mount will not auto mount and is only ready only?
I am using scientific linux host and centOS guest and I am trying to share a folder I have in both accounts but the folder is only ...
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CentOS 6 does not show any desktop icons or anything in the panel
I was using CentOS 6 in VirtualBox fine for a couple of days. Now, when I login via the GUI user prompt, all I get is the background screen, no icons, no menubar, nothing. I am not terribly familiar ...
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How can I access a VirtualBox host-only network from outside the host machine?
I'm using Vagrant to deploy a large virtual network environment for testing out some applications and network activity. I'm using host-only networking so I can define all the IP addresses in my ...
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Unable to mount VirtualBox share with Linux host and Windows guest
I am running Linux Mint 12 and have installed the latest version of VirtualBox. I have installed Windows 7 as a guest. I have also created a share with the name share. I attempted to run the command ...
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How to Use a Shared Folder in VirtualBox with AndroVM
I'm trying out AndroVM and cant figure out how to access a shraed folder with VirtualBox. The instructions say it needs to be called mysdcard, which I did. But I can't find it in the android.
What do ...
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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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How to SSH into Red Hat Linux (virtual box guest) from Windows 7 (host)?
I have RHEL running in Virtual Box and my native OS is Win 7. From a purely educational standpoint, I want to be able to access RHEL from Win 7 over SSH. I download putty but don;t know how to make it ...
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Configuring Apache for External Access
I would like to be able to access my apache webserver from outside of my LAN. I have my config files setup so that I am able to access my server through localhost/ and localhost:8181/ (all I did was ...
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Migrating a Computer to a VHD
A client of mine has a computer running applications for roughly 10 machines. They need a real server to handle all of this and I'm going to make some recommendations and install/migrate everything.
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VirtualBox and Wireless interface Bridging?
Can anyone please tell me how does VirtualBox 4.1.4 OSE version bridges the connection with the wireless Interface (wlan0). Yes! It was working fine in my guest :) . I read the Documentation at their ...
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Unable to install Visual Studio 2010 Professional on my virtualbox
I have tried so many times to install Visual Studio 2010 Professional Edition on my Virtual machine in Windows Server 2008 Environment.I have find following error log file.
[01/07/11,22:42:55] ...
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VirtualBox shared folder write permission - Ubuntu 12.04
I'm using the following command to mount my folder in VirtualBox:
sudo \mount -t vboxsf -o rw -o uid=1000 -o gid=1000 Dropbox ~/Dropbox/
However, the folder is read-only. I re-installed Guest ...
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VirtualBox NAT over proxy
I use VirtualBox 4.1.8 on a Ubuntu 10.04 host system. I have an HTTP proxy server on the host system.
How do I configure the VirtualBox to NAT the virtual machine's network and use the HTTP proxy for ...
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Configure Virtualbox guest with static IP, SSH and internet access from host
I have an Ubuntu Server 12 virtualbox guest running on a Windows 7 host which has a dynamic IP (and I don't wanna change this considering it's a laptop and I'm changing network frenquently).
I want ...
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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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Drag'n'Drop doesn't work in VirtualBox
I'm on Mac OS X 10.8 and I'm using VirtualBox with Ubuntu 12.4 as guest. After install "Guest additions" Drag'n'Drop was working.
But since I install "additional drivers" and reboot the system, it ...
