What is virtualization? There are two types of virtualization, "hardware" and "software" virtualization, with software virtualization mostly being used in desktop and home computing. In the latter, a "host" operating system runs a virtualization software, while the "guest" operating system runs ...
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Is it possible to install an OS while another is running?
I think for myself that this could be very complicated... but maybe there is a possibility:
is it possible to install an OS (like Windows 7 e.g.) on a Computer while running another OS (e.g. Linux)?
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Tools for block diagrams / listings of multi-layered storage virtualization with LVM and LUKS?
When multiple storage virtualization systems are used together, it can be complicated and time-consuming to gain an understanding of the structure of the various relationships involved. What tools ...
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In virtualization, should Windows host Linux or should Linux host Windows? [closed]
I bought a new home server which I'm going to use for developement, HTPC and many others. I'm thinking of havine one Windows VM and multiple linux VMs.
I've thinking about this for last few days but ...
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Using virtualization, each Win7 guest has to get only one of several USB Wi-Fi adapters all connected to the host via USB hub
Hi All the Superusers,
I need to have several Wi-Fi equipped Windows7 guests on the host. Each guest has to be connected via Wi-Fi to its own dedicated Wi-Fi access point. All the access points are ...
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VirtualBox? Hangs on creation of new VM from VHD with Windows 7
Does this product even work on Windows 7 (64 bit)? It says its supported, but I have tried about 5 times in a row to create my first VM with existing VHD file, and this thing just hangs @ zero percent ...
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VirtualBox and Windows 8 - No USB connectivity?
I've tried using 4 different pen drives with my Windows 8 virtual machine in VirtualBox and for some reason it just won't show.
What am I doing wrong?
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Using VMware/Virtual box to simulate a cluster of nodes, but actually using a single machine
I am developing a webapp using Cassandra database which works on a multi-nodes cluster. But I don't have multiple machines to create a cluster while development. Is it possible to create a cluster ...
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VMWare VM's network card not working after VirtualBox installed
I use VMWare workstation and have had no problems with my virtual machines and bridging the network card. However, I installed Virtualbox to check it out and ever since I can't establish a network ...
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Vwmare network card issues possibly after Installation of VirtualBox
I use VMWare workstation and have had no problems with my virtual machines and bridging the network card. However, I installed Virtualbox to check it out and ever since I can't establish a network ...
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What is the lightest VM solution for personal use? [closed]
I want to use VMs instead of my computer because I'm tired of many hours of formatting and installation/configuration of my environment.
What solution should I use for maximum performance and ...
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How i can install BusyBox on Virtual Machine?
How i can install BusyBox on Virtual Machine? For instance, VMVare or VirtualBox? Where I can see some manuals about this problem?
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Lots of DDR2 and older CPUs or small amount of DDR3 and a newer CPU?
Building a new desktop PC, for some gaming and lots of Virtualization, I have come across a nice old machine I can use. It has two CPU slots populated by dual core AMD Opterons, and 16Gb of DDR2 RAM ...
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What Virtualization Servers support windows clients with Direct X? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What Virtualization Servers support Windows Clients with Direct X?
In advance I'd like to state this question is similar to its predecessors here and here but, those ...
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What Virtualization Servers support Windows Clients with Direct X?
In advance I'd like to state this question is similar to its predecessors here and here but, those questions are old and I would like an up to date answer based on current technology.
I want to host ...
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Windows 7 in Virtual Box on Mac OS X Lion, 32 or 64 bits?
I'm installing Windows 7 inside Virtual Box running on top of Mac OS X Lion running on a Mac Book Pro (bought in December 2011 in case that matters). Should I run Windows 7 in 32 or 64 bit?
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How can I create a connection between two virtual machines?
I've virtual Box installed with backtrack and XP SP2 Virtual machines, on a Windows 7 host machine. How can I create a connection between them?
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What settings can I change in virtualized XP and W7 to minimise unnecessary image file differential size
I have several virtualized instances of XP and W7 on KVM, and each week I take an LVM snapshot of the qcow2 file and rsync it to a remote site. I'd like to reduce my bandwidth usage if possible - what ...
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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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VMware virtual WindowsXP - VMDK or ISO for a third person who is going to use it
Our team made a little application, then created in VMware Player a Windows XP virtual OS and installed the application into it. Now the guy who is going to use wants us to make an image of it, burn ...
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When running virtual machines, is VT-x support or higher clock speed better?
I'm looking at building a new desktop workstation. I will be using VMWare Workstation to run virtual machines, probably only one or two at a time. I am currently deciding on CPU and the options I am ...
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VMWare on Intel i7-2600[S/K]: VM processor configuration for maximum performance
I have an Intel i7-2600K-processor, which has 4 cores but runs 8 thread because of Hyperthreading. I want to run a Ubuntu-VM with maximum performance under VMWare 8 (host system is Windows 7, and is ...
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Exporting VMs with VirtualBox
New to VBox and can't seem to find any documentation on this that is friendly for newcomers. I have set up a guest VM on one host (my laptop), and now I want to move that VM to another physical ...
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configuring virtual machines
I Have windows 7 and I installed one virtual machine in it and in this virtual machine I installed opensuse Linux
Virtual A-------------Linux(Virtual C)--------Virtual B
I want linux to be in the ...
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Building a computer as a VM hypervisor [virtualization] [closed]
I want to build a machine for home/lab usage as a hypervisor machine that will host various virtual machines, around 6-8 of them, mostly VMs with different OSes and services.
Most likely there won't ...
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How do I find the IP address of a virtual machine using VMware Fusion?
Can I determine the IP of a virtual machine using VMware Fusion without actually entering the operating system running on the virtual machine? I'm looking for a menu option, command line, or otherwise ...
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Enable Virtualisation on Asus P5QL Pro
I recently ran into a problem similar to “CPU is not compatible with 64 bit mode” error trying to install Windows 7 (64 Bit) on VirtualBox. I am running 64 bit ubuntu 10.04 ltsand I can't install ...
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Looking for a virtual machine that supports 132x43 text mode or higher
I'm looking for any virtual machine that supports VESA text mode 132x43 or higher. Bonus points if it works on Windows, boots from floppy image and is free software.
This may seem like a silly ...
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How can I run a virtual machine from a RAW format disk image on Mac OS X?
I have a Debian Linux web server running in VMWare on my laptop. I use a VPS hosting company that lets me upload a copy of this virtual machine’s disk image to use as a live web server, meaning I’ve ...
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Xmonad focused window border issues with virtualbox/vmware guest additions
I've tested xmonad on ubuntu and archlinux, running either on virtualbox and vmware. After installing guest additions (and the equivalent vmware tools for vmware), the focus border stops working. I ...
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Add physical disk as a VM without imaging or altering the disk
Can I run Windows and Linux simultaneously from two separate hard drives whilst still being able to boot each individually?
The scenario is as follows:
I have two HDDs (SSDs in this case). One has an ...
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Virtualization of Windows XP or 7 in Linux Ubuntu using native Windows drivers?
I am having a problem with getting one of my USB-to-serial devices running on Linux Ubuntu. There is simply no driver for it. It only works in Windows. When I boot to Win 7, it works fine because the ...
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Virtualized desktops for specific tasks
Currently my system needs a major reinstall. Running an ever slowing down Windows Vista it's time to do a format c: and start over. Since I don't want to re-install Windows Vista as my main OS and I ...
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How to Manually Xen bridging setup on OpenSUSE for two DomU
I've been having problems with Xen networking on OpenSUSE, specifically with getting Dom0 opening a TCP connection to the DomU. Other machines on the network can open TCP connections to all 3, so I'm ...
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Is there any alternative to virtualization for handling two different interfaces, different networks and same IP range?
I have a Linux box with two different NICs that are connected to two different networks, but they share the same IP range (10.0.0.x). My first idea was to use virtualization for that (i.e., Xen), but ...
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Harware Virtualization in Asus 1215n Netbook
Is it possible to enable Hardware Virtualization on the Asus 1215n netbook? I know the Intel Atom CPU supports it but I can't find an option for it in the BIOS.
I am trying to run different ...
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Which virtualization technology for old linux box
I have old PIV 1.8ghz, 512MB memory, 40GB HDD, computer with Debian squeeze on it. I currently work on it by connecting to it over SSH. I'm interested in testing/learning/trying out/playing with ...
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What's the best virtualization software to install multiple OS? [closed]
I'm using Windows XP on my PC. I'm trying to install Ubuntu.
I want these two OS on my PC running simultaneously. How can I do that, e.g. switching between different operating systems while running ...
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Problems connecting to vrdp on VirtualBox
I'm running VirtualBox 4.1.6 on an Ubuntu 11.10 host machine. The extension pack is installed. The guest is Ubuntu 11.10 as well. I'm now trying to connect via vrdp to a vm that i created. I ...
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VGA passthrough and desktop virtualization
In short, my dream is to have one machine with multiple paravirtualized desktop and server guests, one of which has to be a Windows desktop with powerful graphics.
As Windows can't be paravirtualized ...
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VirtualBox network configuration
I have a CentOS 6.1 virtual machine, virtualized with VirtualBox on Windows XP. This machine hosts my local development MySQL server.
I'd like to find the correct network configuration, so that:
my ...
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Is there a way to run the Microsoft browser VMs on VirtualBox?
I do a lot of web development on Linux and Mac, and I'm also a fan of VirtualBox.
Microsoft has available for download various browser images for testing, but they require VirtualPC to run:
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general advie in regards to virtualization [closed]
When you want the best of two worlds, as is the case with me, but also your comfort, then there's really only two options: Dual boot or virtualization. That much has always been clear.
Lets assume ...
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Tips for configure and recompile kernel of Virtual Machine
I am running 3 Virtual Machines under KVM in Ubuntu 11.10. I have read some info on how to optimize the kernel of the Host for Virtualization, that's ok for me, but I need to compile a custom kernel ...
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Host OS slow to find web brick server running on linux as guest OS in VirtualBox
I am running VirtualBox 4.1.6 on Windows 7 on fairly quick machine with 12G of ram. I have a virtual machine running Ubuntu 11 on which I am doing rails development using ruby 1.9.3 and rails 3. When ...
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Can anyone confirm whether or not the ASUS N53SV-DH72 supports VT-x? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I enable VT-X?
It has the Intel Core i7-2670QM 2.2GHz processor which does support VT-x (), but I'm more interested in making sure that the bios supports it. ...
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Home and end keys on USB keyboard recognized as left and right arrow in VirtualBox running Windows 7
I have got a Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 USB keyboard connected to my MacBook Pro. The keyboard layout is standard 104 keys.
When I run Windows 7 in VirtualBox the keyboard gets recognized as ...
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How to run Chrome OS Lime on VMware Fusion 4?
I recently downloaded a copy of the Chrome/Chromium OS Lime version from Hexxeh's website (chromeos.hexxeh.net) to try it out.
On the website, there are 2 versions of Chrome OS - Vanilla and Lime. ...
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What version(s) of Windows 7 can run as guests in VirtualBox?
Back a couple years ago when Windows 7 was first rolling out, I recall some noise about all but the Super Galactic Ultimate editions being impossible to run in a virtual environment (like VMWare or, ...
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Linux how many CPU's can be run without a significant performance impact [closed]
A quick note first: I ask this question out of pure morbid curiosity and not because I need an answer ;)
As far as I know Linux supports up to 4096 processors on a single computer. As multiprocessor ...
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Can I run VirtualBox and VMWare Fusion on the same machine?
I have both VirtualBox and VMWare VMs on separate laptops.
Can I run both of those VMWare Fusion and VirtualBox on my Macbook Pro, assuming that I don't want to run them at the same time?
Has ...
