Questions tagged [virtualbox]
VirtualBox is a free, open source virtualization program from Oracle for the x86/x86_64 architectures.
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Why does virtualbox only have 32-bit option, no 64-bit option on Windows 7?
I have downloaded and installed the newest virtualbox 4.3.20 for my Windows 7 (64-bit OS), but when I want to install 64-bit Linux, the New->Create Virtual Machine only displays 32-bit option, no 64-...
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Use physical harddisk in Virtual Box
Using Virtual Box, how can I install an OS to a secondary, physical disk, and boot it in both (at separate times) Virtual Box, and as a typical secondary OS install?
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How to compact VirtualBox's VDI file size?
I've a VirtualBox VM which configured a very large hard disk size (bigger than host). By my mistake, a program on the VM generated lots of log files and the VDI file size keeps growing until there is ...
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Is it possible to convert virtual machines to physical environments?
Is is possible to convert a .vdi file into a .iso that can be burned to a cd or dvd and make it like an installer. Or Is it possible to convert virtual machines to physical environments?
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VirtualBox only allowing 32 bit OS
When I start VirtualBox, I only have 32 bit operating systems available. After some research I followed the steps on another post but to no avail. My host OS is 64 bit, Intel Virtualization Technology ...
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What's the recommended way to move a VirtualBox VM to another computer?
I use VirtualBox 4.1.x on my Ubuntu machine and I’ve set up several virtual machines. Since there are several ways one can move a virtual machine in VirtualBox to another computer, I was wondering ...
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How to do networking between virtual machines in VirtualBox?
I have two virtual machines in VirtualBox. I would like to do networking between them. For the moment I have the default configuration on both, but they seem to have the same IP-address 10.0.2.15. I ...
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Why Virtual Box won't give me option to create 64 bits guests?
My host is x64 bits Windows 8.1.
I downloaded the latest Virtual Box (4.3) and I'm trying to create a VM with a 64 bits Ubuntu OS (ubuntu-12.04.3-desktop-amd64).
When I go to New VM wizard, it doesn'...
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VirtualBox fails to start with VERR_NEM_VM_CREATE_FAILED
Immediately after starting a VM in VirtualBox, I receive a error box that contains the following error message:
Call to WHvSetupPartition failed: ERROR_SUCCESS (Last=0xc000000d/87) (...
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Can a virus from a VirtualBox VM affect the host computer?
Can a virus from a VirtualBox VM affect the host computer?
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Is it possible to use a storage disk (such as a USB drive) as RAM?
My motherboard (HP Pavilion s3000y) only supports 2GB of RAM max. Which means that I can only allocate 1GB for running VMs, and applications that use a lot of RAM are slow (such as games and Visual ...
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How do I enable the shared clipboard in VirtualBox?
Where is the configuration option for sharing clipboards (copy & paste) between the host OS and the guest OS?
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VirtualBox: using physical partition as virtual drive [duplicate]
Background: I am using VirtualBox installed on Windows 7. From within VirtualBox I am using Xubuntu as a virtual OS. The reason I chose this approach is so that I don't have to keep turning off ...
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Virtual box is not working on windows 10
I have installed virtual box But when I tried to run it. It shows me an error as:
I have been trying everything for whole day. Like there are answers related to this question as:
VT-x is not ...
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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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Can't set manual IP to Virtualbox Host Only adapter in CentOS 6.5
When I configure the IP address of VirtualBox 4.3.2 (running on Windows 8.1) host only adapter, it changes it back to some other IP. Guest OS is CentOS 6.5.
I tried to set the IP in network ...
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Can you run a machine emulator (Bochs) inside a virtual machine?
Is it possible to, say, run VirtualBox on Windows 7 with a Linux guest, and inside that Linux machine run Bochs?
The reason is that I'm interested in starting OS development, and I've found that all ...
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How to boot from a flash drive OS using VirtualBox?
I have two flash drive, one with Slax installed and another for Android x86 Live installed, but they do not boot in my laptop (in my work they boot perfectly).
I can boot from some live CDs/DVDs or ...
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Dedicated mouse and keyboard for a virtual machine, is it possible?
Let's say I have a PC with two monitors atached. I'm running e.g. Windows Vista natively, and start up a virtual Ubuntu PC. I change to fullscreen mode so that on one Monitor, I see my Windows Desktop,...
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Can I install Windows 7 64 bit on VirtualBox running on a Windows 7 32 bit OS?
Is it possible to install Windows 7 64 bit on VirtualBox running on Windows 7 32 bit?
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VirtualBox to use dual monitors
I am running Kubuntu Hardy Heron, with a dual monitor setup, and have VirtualBox on it running Windows XP in seamless mode.
My problem is, I can't get VirtualBox to extend to the second monitor.
How ...
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Why can't VirtualBox or VMware run with Hyper-V enabled on Windows 10
I am running Windows 10 Pro 64 bit with Hyper-V and Intel VT-x virtualization technology enabled. When I try to run VirtualBox 64bit, Windows goes into a BSOD. When I run VMware it shows an error.
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Share VirtualBox folders in reverse? Guest-Host?
I'm familiar with the process of installing Guest Additions and sharing host folders with the guest, but is there a way to do the reverse?
I have an XP host and Ubuntu 10.10 guest, with VBox 4.0.2.
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How do you add more space to a Fedora (LVM) partition?
In a nutshell, i have a VM that ran out of space. I increased the size of the VM's harddrive to be 4 times bigger but the OS partition is still only using 1x the space. I need to change the LVM ...
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Run VirtualBox in background, without a window?
I was wondering if it's possible to run an Ubuntu virtual machine using VirtualBox in background, I mean, without any window open.
The idea is to connect via SSH to the Linux host, that would be ...
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How do I enable VT-X?
I'd like to provide a guest OS with multiple CPUs in VirtualBox. My host machine is a quad core HP Compaq and uses the Intel Core 2 vPro hardware.
However, when I try to enable the setting in vbox, ...
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How to sign a kernel module Ubuntu 18.04
I am new to using Ubuntu. I am trying to install Genymotion so I can have access to an android emulator. In order to use Genymotion, it is required I have VirtualBox. I have VirtualBox installed but ...
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Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions on Windows 10?
I am trying to install VirtualBox guest additions on Windows 10 technical preview, and am getting the following error:
I imagine I am not the only one having this issue, is there any way to force it ...
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How does VirtualBox's memory usage work?
I've been running several VM's with VirtualBox, and the memory usage reported from various perspectives, and I'm having trouble figuring how much memory my VMs actually use. Here is an example:
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VirtualBox and SSD's TRIM command support
I am aware of the huge number of posts on the internet saying that this would not work and why and I really spent days looking for the solutions months ago but I've found yesterday some tips how to "...
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How do I setup a virtualbox server with a static ip?
I'm trying to get a Virtualbox instance running with a very specific networking setup.
Here's what I have right now:
I have a laptop running Ubuntu, hosting a Debian Virtualbox. My loptop regularly ...
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how to access samba on a guest Linux behind the VirtualBox NAT?
On my laptop, I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 under WinXP using VirtualBox 3.1.2.
I want a setup where:
The guest can freely access the internet.
The host can access the guest files via Samba.
The setup ...
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Can't find the right Ubuntu Server ISO for VirtualBox
I have been trying all morning to find the right Ubuntu Server (12.04) ISO to use for installing an Ubuntu guest OS on my VBox VM.
Here are the relevant stats:
Host Machine: AMD 64-bit
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Host and guest suddenly cannot communicate in bridged mode after working fine before
Up until a few hours ago, my VirtualBox setup worked perfectly, Windows 10 Host, Ubuntu 15.04 Server and Linux Mint 17.2 guests. Both guests set to bridged networking mode and every device on my home ...
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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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Connect to the host machine from a VirtualBox guest OS?
I'd essentially like to access my host computer from the guest in VirtualBox. Is there an IP address given for my host which I can use from the guest? Are there extra steps required to set this up? I'...
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Quickest way to merge all 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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Ubuntu on VirtualBox can only show resolution of 800x600 - how do I change it?
My monitor is 1920 x 1200 and the computer is running Windows 7.
Using VirtualBox and Ubuntu 10.04, the screen of the Ubuntu can only be 800 x 600 or 640 x 480. Is there a way to change that.
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Using virtual box is it possible to set your virtual machine time to be different from host time
Using virtual box is it possible to set your virtual machine time to be different from host time. Say 1 year into the past.
If I wanted to run the windows XP images provided by Microsoft from here.
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VBox Guest Additions ISO can't be mounted because of VERR_PDM_MEDIA_LOCKED
I am trying to run the command
sudo mount -t vboxsf SharedUbuntuWindows SharedUbuntuWindows
but I get the error unknown filesystem type 'vboxsf'
on my guest Ubuntu machine. I am following these ...
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Using Samba to share a folder from a Linux guest with a Windows host in VirtualBox
I would like to share a folder from a Linux Guest with a Windows host (with read and write access if possible) in VirtualBox.
I read in these two links: here and here that it's possible to do this ...
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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 virtualization software that allows you to do this?
I am trying to find the minimum requirements for a ...
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Possible to dual boot *and* virtualize same physical drive containing Windows 10?
I use Linux as my daily driver, and have just installed Windows 10 to a new physical disk in my PC for dual booting. For a while, I've used Windows 7 through a VirtualBox image I have mounted over ...
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Create Virtualbox image of a physical partition
I've a drive with Fedora and Windows 7 on different partitions with dual boot.
Now, while running Fedora, I'd like to suck up the Windows partition and create an image I can run in VirtualBox - how ...
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VirtualBox: Odd behaviour after updating the host to OS X Mavericks
I've just updated my Mac to OS X Mavericks. However, after doing so, I'm facing a couple of issues with my VirtualBox program including the following:
1 - The virtual machines (guest OSes) fail to ...
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Boot Camp, Parallels, VirtualBox Or Fusion? [closed]
Boot Camp, Parallels, VirtualBox Or Fusion?
In a recent article on Australian LifeHacker.com they discussed the following question, I trust the SU group more then the anonymous answers from ...
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Is it possible to setup host machine browser as default guest system browser
So I want to be redirected to my host system browser when I click some link in guest system.
Note that I don't want to have browser on guest system at all.
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How to Install Virtualbox on Windows 10 host?
I am trying to install virtual box v4.3.28-100309 on a Windows 10 Host.
The windows 10 insider preview installed is build 10130. When I try to install the virtualbox exe I am getting the following ...
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How to reduce VM size?
I have a Virtualbox VM, with a .vdi that is taking 49gb in the host machine.
I may have used that much space inside the VM once, but now I'm only really using about 6gb.
I tried this command for ...
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Mac OS X as guest on VirtualBox with Ubuntu Host?
I have a legitimate copy of Mac OS X. I want to install Ubuntu on my new AMD computer as my host OS, then install Mac OS X as the guest OS via VirtualBox.
Does anyone know if this will be an easy ...
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