Virtualization is the process of using software to emulate an entire computer, in which "guest" operating systems can run.
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Minimal OS for running virtual machines
Is there a minimalistic operating system built purely for the purpose of running virtual machines (preferrably open source / otherwise free)?
If not, let's say I decided to do something like Linux ...
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Best way to virtualize physical Windows 7 installation in Linux?
Ever since I saw a friend running Windows 7 inside Mac OS X with VMware Fusion, I've been trying to do the same on my laptop, in order to avoid having to reboot every time I have to use a Windows ...
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Are there any open source app virtualization solutions for Windows
I am looking for open source solutions that provide application virtualization for Windows! In other words an open source to ThinApp from VMWare.
I have found several commercial options, but nothing ...
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Why is Hardware Assisted Virtualization disabled by default?
Why would vendors by default set hardware assisted virtualization off? I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X201 (64bit) but it seems this is the case with other vendors too. I want to run some virtual machines ...
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VirtualBox - XP guest does not see multiple cores/multiple processors
Environment:
Host OS: Win7 Pro 64bit
Guest OS: WinXP 32bit
VirtualBox version: 4.1.4r74291
Processor: Intel Core i7 2630QM with virtualization enabled
The Problem:
I need the guest system to use ...
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Has anyone managed to virtualize Windows 7 on a physical disk?
I have Windows 7 installed on a partition and running fine, but I want to access the parition from my Ubuntu installation with VirtualBox. I have created the virtual disk file and everything, but ...
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VirtualBox NAT port forwarding on Ubuntu 64?
I have an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop 64-bit guest OS running on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop 64-bit host OS (yes, the same OS). I'd like to run a web server on the guest and make it accessible through NAT on the ...
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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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How does it hurt to use Linux (Ubuntu) as a guest OS for all my tasks?
I have a machine running Windows, where the disk has two partitions C (50 GB) and D (250GB).
I do research in Information Retrieval and need to work with a large corpus (more than 50 GB) and in ...
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Performance impact of running Linux in a virtual machine in Windows?
I'd like to know what performance impact I could expect running Linux in a virtual machine in Windows. The job I need Linux for is heavy and almost non-stop code compilation with GCC. Dual-boot ...
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How to import an Image for VirtualBox
I have VirtualBox installed on Ubuntu 64.
I have a few Images I need to import into my Virtual Box.
What I got is a file with *.ovf and a file with *.vmdk
What am I suppose to do with those files?
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How do I get a bridge network to work for VirtualBox with Linux guest on a Mac OS X host
Does anybody have the step by step configuration process that would allow VirtualBox running a Linux/Ubuntu guest on a Mac OS X host use the bridge type network using Ethernet and wireless? I have ...
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Dual-Virtualization vs. Dual-Boot vs. Single-Virtualization
A friend of mine recently suggested something that intrigued me: in the case of needing multiple Operating Systems simultaneously, instead of dual-booting or using multiple computers, one could use a ...
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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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Is there a way to virtualize Mac OSX in Windows? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to run Mac OSX within Windows Virtual PC?
I have heard rumors that there is a way to run Mac OSX Server in a Virtual Machine in windows. I know this is not exactly ...
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How to create virtual machine environments?
I want to create a number of virtual machine environments for testing new beta releases - Windows 7, VS2010, Windows Server 2008 and so on. My host OS is Windows XP. What is the best way of going ...
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Virtualization of multiple command line tools
Short Question
Has anyone had success virtualizing multiple command line tools in Windows?
Background
In a previous SU Question I asked how to setup isollated work envrionments. The over all ...
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enable AMD-v on Asus M4A88T-M with AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
I've problems with x64-virtualisation in VMware Workstation.
I don't know what's the problem:
Hardware: AMD Phenom II 1090T (does support AMD-v), ASUS M4A88T-M Mainboard and 8GB of RAM.
That should ...
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64-bit or 32-bit guest for a 64-bit host ? (VMware)
So, here is my all-timer question. Never seen a total answer to it, so please guys, help me out.
I have an Intel Core i7 CPU with every hardware stuff enabled (except hyper-threading).
My OS is a ...
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How can I copy my (Ubuntu 9.04) Linux filesystem to another computer?
I have spent a lot of time configuring my computer: shell scripts, path definitions, video settings, as well as lots of programs. The disk is ext3 formatted.
I would like to
1) move everything ...
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Why doesn't Windows 8 Task Manager report the actual CPU frequency when Virtualisation is turned on?
In this question, I asked why the actual CPU frequency wasn't being reported in the performance tab of windows task manager. It turns out I had Virtualization turned on in the BIOS. When I disabled ...
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Why does my Windows 8 Pro Hyper-V guest have no internet?
Trying to get this working on my Windows 8 Pro machine. I created an External Switch
Assigned the newly available adapter to a Guest machine with Win 2008 os. My host has internet connection. Host ...
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use installed system as virtual system on virtualbox [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Create Virtualbox image of a physical partition
I have two operating system installed on my PC (dual boot), I use both a lot and sometimes I restart my PC two times to ...
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Is it possible to buy one photoshop and use virtualization in a way that everyone can use it?
Is it possible to install a main server and install some sort of virtualization technology, pay one price for software such as Photoshop and let everyone user it?
Please explain to me why or why not
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Does Windows notice when a VM is moved around?
I'm thinking of migrating a Desktop machine (Windows XP) to a VM solution (VirtualBox or MS Virtual PC). The reason is that I need a new hardware anyways and I don't want to (cannot properly) ...
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How can I virtualize Mac OS X Lion?
My friend bought Mac OS X Lion for me, but I don't have a Mac as I'm using Windows 7.
Since I have the DVD, which virtual application do I have to use? Which application is allowed by Apple?
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How Do I Access localHost From VMware
I've created a new WinXP vitual machine on my win7 using VMware player. The VM is using NAT to share the host's Internet connection and when i put http://192.168.163.2/ in IE on VM, i can easily ...
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Debian networking stopped working after cloning VM image (virtualbox)
After I cloned a VirtualBox VM image, either original nor cloned Debian 6 (squeeze) image have networking works anymore.
I've read A TON of articles online describing modifying the ...
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What are the differences between virtualization technologies and products?
I am currently investigating how to set up virtualization on my laptop but I am having trouble finding a good source of information about what different virtualization technology is good at and how it ...
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Running a Linux virtual machine on Windows 7
I want to do two things:
Set up a virtual machine on Windows 7 to run Ubuntu
Set up a way for the virtual machine to read the windows disk or windows to have read/write access to the virtual ...
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How to shrink Windows 7 XP Mode VHD files?
I'm trying to shrink a Windows 7 XP Mode VHD file with VhdResizer with little success.
When I select my VHD file, it says "VhdExpand only supports fixed and dynamic VHD files". My XP Mode VHDs are ...
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Virtualization of existing installation
My question is: Is it possible to open in Virtualization solution (Virtual-Box, or any other) an installed OS (not the host one of course?
Example: I have Windows Vista in one partition, and I have ...
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Windows XP Mode with Dual Monitors - Applications Not Appearing Correctly
We have machines with Windows 7 installed and dual monitors. When we run a virtual application using XP Mode, any dialogue windows in the application appear centered between the two monitors. If we ...
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XEN 4.1.3 on OpenSuSE 12.2 not seeing keyboard of Dell XPS 1330
The title really says it all. When booting the XEN Hypervisor kernel, everything works flawlessly, except that the keyboard is not seen at all.
If I plug a USB keyboard, it is recognized and I can ...
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Host DVD-ROM drive “eaten up” by Virtual Box
I'm running a Windows-7 host machine with Oracle Virtual-Box 4.1.18. I've created a guest OS - Ubuntu 11.10 in Virtual-Box for programming and testing. All things are working fine, however, except one ...
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Enable hardware virtualization on Asus P8P67 motherboard?
I have the aforementioend motherboard and it appears that hardware virtualization is disabled on it (as according to vmware). I've looked at the bios options as well as the manual and haven't found ...
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“A disk read error occurred” when booting XP disk image in VirtualBox
I'm trying to boot an XP installation cloned into VirtualBox from a real drive. I'm getting the message
A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
whenever* I try to boot the ...
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What version of windows can be virtualized?
I have an Ubuntu machine that I want to have windows virtualized in with VirtualBox. Is there a specific version of Windows 7 that I have to have so that the license will allow me to virtualize it?
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Can Linux be run under Windows 7?
In Windows 7 if you have a multi-core processor you can run virtual machines. There is something called XP mode which lets you do a full XP install and lets you run XP just like the real thing, ...
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How to virtualize OSX on Linux [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to run a MacOSX installation on a virtual machine?
How can I virtualize OSX on Linux somehow?
I know that the OSX eula states that OSX can only be ...
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Any guides or resources for running Windows under VMWare on OS X
I'm considering purchasing a PowerMac so that I can geek out on OSX, Windows and Linux, simultaneously on the same hardware.
But the fiscal responsibility part of me demands some due diligence before ...
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Dual-monitor VPC/VMware
If there was a feature request for Virtual PC or VMWare, it would be dual-monitor support. Why hasn't this been done?
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Disable my nVidia video card driver in Linux
I'm trying to passthrough my nv video card to my domU, but I could not bind my video card to the pciback driver
I only have one video card with the pci number 0000:03:00.0, so I used the following ...
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VMWare Ubuntu guest multitouch touchpad
Related: Use Synaptics Touchpad Scroll in VMware Guest
I've read that it's not possible to enable multitouch in vmware guest.
What confuses me, is that when I use something special (like two finger ...
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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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Q9550 CPU Not supporting Hardware Virtualization?
According to Intel's Website, my Q9550 processor should support Hardware Virtualization. (It says on the box and many other sources too, so the website isn't wrong). However, according to Microsoft's ...
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Booting from virtual machine VMWAre
I have a VMWare virtual machine (windows xp). I have just started it up through the VMWare player and it's extremely slow on my laptop (expected).
Is it possible to boot from that image like in mac ...
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Virtualize Mac OS X Using Virtual Box or Microsoft Virtual PC [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to run Mac OS X within Windows Virtual PC?
Hi.
I know there are a lot of tutorials and stuffs telling how to install MAC OSX on windows, using vmware, like this one ...
