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Virtualization is the process of using software to emulate an entire computer, in which "guest" operating systems can run.

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Can you explain me VMWare Performance Counters in Windows?

I am having a guest Windows Server 2008 R2, i.e. VMWare virtual machine Can you explain me VM counters vs. non-VM-ones, in the case of "% Processor Time" (under "VM Processor" section) vs. "% ...
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Advice on Dev Laptop (Lenovo W530) for Mobile Development

I am ordering a Lenovo W530. It is going to be used mainly for mobile (iOS, Android & Win Phone) and backend development. A lot of VMWare virtual machines of course. But not over 2 concurrent ...
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How to set up a VM gateway/DHCP and virtual network in CentOS KVM?

Today I have a working setup where the physical host runs W2k3. It has 2 physical NIC's. It runs Vmware server and I have a ClearOS VM installed acting as a FW/DHCP/DNS for both the host and all the ...
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VT-x is Enabled, but is not operational ? Winows 8 unable to run 64-bit virtual machine

Vt-x is Enabled in Bios and it shows working in Intel Processor identification utility. but I'm not able to run 64-bit Guest OS on both VirtualBox & VMware Workstation. Virtual Box says VT-x/...
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Using logitech mouse and keyboard with Virtualbox

Hi I've just installed Virtualbox and I've installed Windows 7 I have a Logitech K270 Keyboard and T620 Mouse, and the host system is Ubuntu 13.04. The Keyboard and Mouse lock each time I try and ...
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Nested virtualization not working

I installed virtualbox 4.2.10 on OS X 10.8.3 and I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on it as a guest. I have hardware virtualization enabled for the guest, as the screenshot shows But when I login to the VM ...
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Virtualization: pass audio and video from one VM to hardware

I have a Linux server at home for storage, development and testing purposes. I would like to use this server as a home theater solution as well. Now it doesn't seem like a good idea to run that ...
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Cannot access internet on host computer when adapter is bridged for a virtual machine

I am running a Windows Virtual Machine in Hyper-V on Windows 8. To connect the guest machine to the internet, I create a virtual switch using the Hyper-V Virtual Switch Manager. I tell it to use my ...
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Network Bridging for WiFi-to-Ethernet in linux

It is possible to network bridging a WiFi-to-Ethernet link in Linux instead of Ethernet-to-Ethernet? I have a CentOS 6.3 machine. I am using KVM and I want perform a bridge to visualize more machines....
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VirtualBox virtual machine use on a processor without virtualisation

I am trying to mount a VirtualBox virtual machine on an Intel B980 processor which seems not to have the virtualisation feature. I have tried to modify the configuration XML into: <CPU count="...
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arbitrary number of cpu's in a virtual machine

I'm planning to give a seminar / demonstration on the advantages of grid computing. As we don't have a physical grid (yet), I thought I would create a set of virtual machines, set up GridEngine and ...
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What factors should I consider when building a virtual machine host?

I want to construct a server that will be used to host virtual machines. These virtual machines would play different roles, like: Database server JBoss application server Eclipse development ...
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Building a virtual machine structure with Xen or VMware on a normal pc

I have a Acer Expire X3200 (AMD 64 Quad). Consider the pc completely empty. Is it possible to make this machine run a few virtual machines and how? By installing Debian with Xen? By installing ...
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Virtualbox, using the same keybord layout of the host in the guest os

I'm using Virtualbox 4.1.12 on Debian x64 and my host OS is Windows XP Professional 64-bit. On Debian I'm using a custom keyboard layout that I set on system startup through the command setxkbmap. I'...
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Virtual Box Pen Test Lab Set Up

So I’m trying to set up a pen test lab in virtual box on my windows 7 host. I have 3 guest OS's installed: BackTrack5 CentOS 5 Server/Snort (My Snortbox) Windows XP (Unpatched) I have 3 ...
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Making VMPlayer actually scale to full screen

I'm trying to use VMware Player 4.0 to play my existing virtual machines (previously created using VMware Workstation, to which I don't have access anymore). All works fine, but when the guest OS ...
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Accessing dual boot partition from virtualization

My current system is dual-booting Fedora 14 and Windows 7. I just installed an Ubuntu partition via Virtualbox for virtualization. The idea is sometimes I need to do something in Windows but I want to ...
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Virtualization of desktop

I'm thinking about virtualization of my laptop(for educational purposes). My idea is to install very light host OS and have all the rest as virtual machines. Microsoft's Hyper-V Standalone would be ...
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Hardware changes to require XP Activation ? (for a Virtual Machine)

I have WXP-64 running on a VM and, for testing and performance reasons, I would like to occasionally change the allocations for it. Changes might include: Number of CPU cores, Amount of RAM Add/...
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Application Integration Mode within Windows 7 ("Windows XP Mode")

I'm having an issue where applications that are virtualized (on VMs using Windows XP SP3 --not XP Mode, just regular Virtual PC) and accessible by my host machine (Windows 7 Enterprise x64) are just ...
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Error while VMware Converter for creating virtual machine for Vmplayer

I'm using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone version=4.0.1, build=build-161434 to hot clone the linux partition on my laptop. It has a partition with Windows Xp pro and another with Opensuse 11.0. ...
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How to connect standalone QEMU sessions to libvirt user-session?

I would like to have qemu started machines running in user space, but during development I would like to issue commands to it using virtsh. (note, this is not because I need virtsh, but the QEMU ...
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Virtualization disabled on Windows10, enabled in BIOS

My Windows 10 claims that virtualization is disabled in firmware, even though I have it enabled in BIOS, checked that my CPU supports it and restarted my machine several times to check whether it ...
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QEMU installation is broken

I am trying to run a Windows 10 VM on Windows 10. What I did I downloaded QEMU exe, then got Windows Installation Media to get the Windows 10 iso file. Then I simply moved to the Windows 10.iso file ...
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Enhanced Mode laggy on Ubuntu 19.04

I finally was able to get Enhanced Mode working with some help on Windows 10 Pro in Hyper-V. While it drastically improved the performance, I feel like it is still sluggish. I've read some people ...
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Enable nested virtualization on Windows 10 Hyper-V for the root OS

Is it possible to enable nested virtualization for Windows 10 Hyper-V, for the root environment? The root Windows environment cannot run other virtualization software like VMWare without it.
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Pass Through Multiple GPUs to Virtual Machine with Hyper-V

I followed this tutorial to try and pass through GPUs to a Hyper-V virtual machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLLcc29EZ_8 My system has two NVIDIA 1080 Ti GPUs in it; and for some reason only ...
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AMD GPU pass-through doesn't work on Windows 7 (even though NVIDIA works)

I have a multi-gpu VM setup (Nvidia GTX 970 and AMD RX 6600) with Windows 7, Windows 10, macOS virtual machines. I pass GPU directly to a guest operating system (isolate from host-os and pass them ...
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kvm qemu guest_agent issue on windows vm's

i'm using kvm virtualazor i have windows vm and i successfully installed the drivers and qemu-ga i do active the guest agent option in virtualazor but unfortunately its wont recognize the agent inside ...
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Imaged windows 7 won't boot

I have a physical windows7 system (HP) and am migrating the user to a new windows10 machine. I'd like to virtualize this machine as a backup. I clonezilla'd the drive and if it was windows 10 I'd be ...
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Getting shared folders to work on a VM with open-vm-tools

VMWare Workstation Pro Version 17.0.2 build-21581411 Host System: Win 10 Pro most recent version Guest OS: Zorin OS 16 Core most recent version I want to setup a shared folder between my windows host ...
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Migrating Old Windows XP and 7 machines to VMs to improve security

I work for a manufacturing company which has all kinds of equipment that runs older operating systems. Some have computers that run full blown Windows XP and Windows 7, while others run embedded ...
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Hyper-V host virtual switch preference

Couldn't find any decent info online, may be my lack of searching skills. Situation: Hyper-V host with external virtual switch (shared with host) and internal virtual switch. IP's received in both ...
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Windows System 2019 configure nic teaming report "The parameter is incorrect."

background: I refer to the following article for configuration. http://woshub.com/configure-nic-teaming-windows/ But I got "new-NetLbfoTeam : The parameter is incorrect." output like this ...
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BSOD when enabling Virtual Machine Platform in combination with vt-d

I did a new install of windows 11 on my laptop. Everything was fine until I ran "wsl --install" Got the BSOD with INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE. After I disable VT for Direct I/O in BIOS my ...
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Unable to create Hyper-V VM on Windows 11 Pro host, with error 0x80070569

On my host machine (new work PC) running Windows 11 Pro, I want to create multiple VMs running Ubuntu Server. Previously I used VirtualBox for this purpose, but after my work PC was upgraded I was ...
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Dual-Virtualization vs. Dual-Boot and Virtualization with GPU passtrhough

I recently watched this SomeOrdinaryGamers video that teaches how to passthrough a GPU to a VM. Around 26:15 of said video he mentions a way to virtualize Windows AND boot it from the drive, but not ...
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Is there way to cap memory usage and/or CPU affinity globally (on boot) to allow manual exceptions per instance in the Windows NT kernel?

I don’t know if this is even possible in Windows. But I know it can be done with Linux. Can it be done in Sindows? As in... tricking Windows into running boot up on 1 NUMA domain/CCX Or 32G of Ram ...
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Create Debian ARM image on Windows 10

I want to create a Debian ARM image using QEMU on my Windows 10 machine. I created my command using hints from here: qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -m 16384 -cpu cortex-a72 -smp 4 -bios QEMU_EFI.fd -...
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The cpu die info by virt-install

I know that the cpu die info can be assigned by XML. <cpu match='exact'> <model fallback='allow'>core2duo</model> <vendor>Intel</vendor> <topology sockets='1' ...
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Another way to run amd64 Docker image on Apple Silicon CPU? It won't work with Docker Desktop

I have written the Docker image my-docker-img that contains the Linux application some-foreign-linux-app (which was not written by me). The image is built from a CentOS 7 linux/amd64 Docker image. ...
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Destination Host Unreachable While Ping between 2 VMs

I'm trying to create a configuration of 2 VMs located on the same hypervisor, to each VM I attached virtIO interface from the hypervisor by editing the XML file of each VM. I created the VMs and I got ...
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Hyper-V machine sometimes gets stuck when enabling wsl2 (nested virtualization enabled)

I have a machine running a windows 11 VM with nested virtualization enabled. when enabling wsl2 features and restarting the VM sometimes "halts" in the reboot process. seemingly for no ...
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Is it possible to use paravirtualization to share a GPU with a Windows guest to enable gaming on Linux?

My objective is to run games on Linux, maximising compatibility by using a real virtualized instance of Windows (e.g. VR, day 1 game launches, things like that). I understand that you can use PCIe ...
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WSL2 does not start after spacedesk installation

It seems to be an issue with spacedesk that after installation WSL2 does not start anymore throwing an error "Please enable the Virtual Machine Platform Windows feature and ensure virtualization ...
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How does Parallels allow you to access your camera and microphone on the M1 Macbook?

I have been trying to pass through my camera and microphone to my Arch VM on my M1 Macbook Air via QEMU to no avail. However, just to check if it was possible, I tried Parallels and it worked right ...
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Virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT is not supported on this platform. Continue without virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT?

I am running windows 11 and VMware workstation 16. I need to do virtualization anyhow to run "Qubes OS". My pc supports it. I tried all ways of internet even turning off and on hyper v. I ...
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sudden Oracle 8 KVM Container crashes on startup " internal error: End of file from qemu monitor"

we have 2 Hardware-Servers with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on both we run Oracle linux 8 via KVM. They were working fine until today. Both do not boot correctly with the following error message on the host ...
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A VM box which auto reverts to a saved state automatically on power loss or shutdown

So I can't seem to find much online about how to do this, but essentially I'd like to be able to have a Virtual Machine box (could be either VirtualBox, VM Ware or maybe something else), which would ...
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QEMU: "Why did my PC restart"

After installing QEMU and putting the Windows 10 iso file in the same directory as where I downloaded QEMU, I ran these commands: qemu-img.exe create -f qcow2 -o cluster_size=2M win10.qcow2 50G qemu-...
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