Questions tagged [virtualization]
Virtualization is the process of using software to emulate an entire computer, in which "guest" operating systems can run.
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How to enable Virtual Technology from BIOS in windows?
Oracle VM VirtualBox gives the following error message when trying to start a virtual machine:
AMD-V is disabled in the BIOS (or by the host OS) (VERR_SVM_DISABLED).
How to enable virtualization ...
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How do I script the creation of Disposable Virtual Machines with vmware workstation?
I am Making a disposable (use for one task/website then delete) Virtual Machine (VM) it's a slow process to do it in VMware workstation. I want to automate it so it is like the quick ~5 second DispVM ...
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i5-4460 or amd fx-8350 for virtual machines (vmware)?
I am building a new desktop that will be used as server in my room - it will basically run 24/7 with 20 or 30 vmware virtual machines active (windows xp installed with 512mb ram, 10 gigs of ssd) - ...
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packer.io exit code of provisioning script
I got packer.io for building VM images. I provision VMs with shell script which uses puppet.
Now sometimes there is situation where this provisioning script fails to provision VM correctly.
I am ...
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The virtual machine could not be started because the hypervisor is not running
I can not start Hyper V virtual machines. I am getting following message:
[Window Title]
Virtual Machine Connection
[Main Instruction]
The application encountered an error while attempting to change ...
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Virtualization with UEFI'secure boot feature
I'm interested in the notion of emulating digital signature checks in virtual machines—the host can be booted without hardware-based digital signature checks, which can be moved to the VM, and the ...
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Windows doesn't detect virtualization
CPU: Intel Core i3 3220
Motherboard: P8B75-M LX (BIOS version: 1403, final)
OS: Windows 10 Education 64-bit
Note: I have screenshots including BIOS settings but I can't add because of reputation ...
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Running a Virtual Machine and Hypervisor on the same machine
I've got a desktop and a laptop computer. Both run Intel hardware. I mainly do word processing, programming, watching videos and surfing the Internet (I don't play computer games). I would like to ...
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KVM or Xen for VGA Pass-through
I'm in the planning phase of setting up a personal virtualization server. One of the virtual machines I want to setup is a Windows box with Steam. Ideally, I want to stream higher-end games to my ...
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OpenVZ fails on container create (Unable to get appcache tarball name)
I have OpenVZ installed on CentOS 7.1.
after i execute
vzctl create 101 --ostemplate debian-7.0-x86-minimal
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command /usr/sbin/vzpkg exited with error 8
Unable to get appcache tarball name ...
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IOV / SR-IOV / MR-IOV for non-network hardware
I've been looking for real-world examples of this for a long time --
mainly because I'm trying to decide whether to restrict my build-options
to using only components (chipsets, processors, ...
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how does vswitch work with the physical nic in vmware?
It is known that VMs, through their vNIC connect to vSwitch which is in turn connected to the physical machine or ESXI host's network adapter (vmnic).
The vmnic is then connected to an actual L2/L3 ...
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How can I convert a domain controller account to local account for forensic analysis?
I am doing a forensic analysis of a Windows machine that has multiple local accounts but have a domain controller or active directory account. I can analyze the files of the user because the files are ...
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Linux (Mint 17.1) Video card's (R9 270x) sound is claimed by pci stub but the GPU isn't
So I'm trying to setup a gaming VM with on Linux Mint via KVM and VFIO. I've added the ID's of both the sound and the actual GPU but only the sound is getting claimed by stub. When I run dmesg | grep ...
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Hyper-V listed on Win 2012 but not Win 8.1 Pro (same machine)
I bought an Acer laptop, and installed Windows Server 2012 to do some web site testing for a client. On that installation, I used Server Manager to install Hyper-V, and two further installations on ...
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How can I emulate Windows Server 2008 R2 with QEMU? / Cannot virtualize Win2K8 R2 using QEMU on Windows Host
I have used precompiled QEMU 2.2.0 (64-bit version) to emulate a PC running Windows Server 2008 R2.
The Host OS is Windows 8.1 Enterprise 64-bit, and my CPU doesn't support Intel VT-x so I can't use ...
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Attempting to passthru USB disk to XENserver windows guest, reporting wrong size and error
I am attempting to passthru a brand new Seagate USB disk (4TB) to a Windows 2008 virtual guest in XEN 6.2. I connected the device, it is listed properly by fdisk -l (even lists correct size, but says ...
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No virtualization option in bios options in hp envy 700 215 xt core i7 processor
I ran this CoreInfo tool from Sysinterals: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc835722 and it says
HYPERVISOR - Hypervisor is present
VMX * Supports ...
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XEN HVM: GUI rendering artifacts on VNC
I'm facing a strange issue running Xubuntu (tried Ubuntu also, same problem with Unity, but no problem with Metacity) on Xen HVM while connecting to it via XEN's builtin VNC. Some parts of the user ...
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Virtualization enabled from host computer but disabled from guest virtualbox?
I have enabled virtualization on the BIOS and verified it by issuing this command from the host computer:
I have ubuntu desktop 14.04 64 bit as host, virtualbox 4.3.10 and ubuntu server 14.04 64 bit ...
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How to let the Hyper-V / Virtual Machine Connection window use native resolution instead of incorrect high-DPI scaling?
I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on a Hyper-V virtual machine hosted on Windows 8.1. It all runs on a Surface 3, so the high DPI scaling is enabled on Windows.
I also have a plain old full HD secondary ...
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multiple ip and subnets in virtual routed xen environment
I'm trying to setup a multi ip, multi subnet environment using xen on debian wheezy host.
I have only one NIC and the guests are also debian wheezy.
this is my original, working, /etc/network/...
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Server-Mainboard - use iGPU instead of onboard Graphics for desktop virtualization
I'm assembling the hardware for a home server and have following question:
At the moment, I've chosen the Asrock E3C226D2I as Mainboard. It has an onboard "Graphics Card" by Aspeed, AST2300, but only ...
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Nested virtualization on (OpenStack on ESXi on Windows)
For the last few weeks I have been reading a lot about OpenStack, Cloud Computing, virtualization, VMware tools and I have decided to try it. I would like to install, configure it and try it to see ...
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In Virtualbox, is it possible to change the emulated CPU name?
I have a Virtualbox VM running Windows 7. When I open Start -> Right click "Computer" -> Properties, I get the real CPU name and plausible CPU speed (not sure if it's exactly the same).
Now I want ...
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How to run VMWare Player on my Windows 7 machine without VT support?
I am using VMWare Player v 6.0.2 build-1744117, I want to run Ubuntu 12 using it, but it gave.
Binary translation is incompatible with long mode on this platform. Long mode will be disabled in this ...
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KVM Arch install - no network
I often use KVM to try out various Linux distros. All I have tried so far get an automatic network, Red Hat and Debian have all connected out of the box, no problem. Makes installations very easy.
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Snapshotting virtual disks mounted in Windows without using vritualization?
I know that you can mount VHDs in Windows, but you can't create snapshots on the go, like in virtual machines. You have to unmount it first, create a differential VHD using Diskpart and mount it again....
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Vsphere Esxi 5.5 only shutdown permission to local user
I have created a normal user in ESXi, I want to allow that user to shutdown the ESXi server directly from console by pressing F12 key. I have given this permission (Host’ –> Configuration –> ‘Power) ...
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Why is my webcam not working on VMplayer 6.0.1?
I have a Dell Inspiron 15 laptop with the following configuration:
Model: i5-3575
3.7 GiB of RAM
Intel Core i5 4200 CPU @1.60 GHz X4
Intel Haswell Mobile Graphics
350 GB hard drive
Ubuntu 13.10 64-...
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Enabling Hyper-V in BIOS causes Windows to stuck
I installed Visual Studio 2013 for Windows Phone and at the end it popped up that Hyper-V (virtualization tool used in Windows Phone Emulator) isn't available on my computer. I done some research and ...
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Can I use the same VHD file to switch back and forth between boot to VHD and a Hyper-V virtual machine?
I'd like to physically install Windows 8.1 Pro and convert my existing physical Windows 7 machine to a VHD as I'd like the convenience of using a Hyper-V virtual machine to access it without having to ...
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How to properly configure and use LXC through lxc-tools (NOT libvirt) on Red Hat based distros?
I am currently learning all about LXC. No doubt there are excellent tutorials about it. The
tutorials/guides take one of the following approach:
LXC on Ubuntu/Debian etc. using lxc-tools
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LXC on ...
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Is it possible to use bare-metal XenServer's virtual machines on the same computer and how?
Can I install XenServer on a machine as a bare-metal installation and create and use its virtual machines on the same machine or I need to use the VMs with XenClient over a network connection? I mean ...
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How can I use a virtual sound card without the hardware?
I'm trying to generate and stream audio+video via aconv to a remote location such as Youtube from a headless linux server, which will then be multicasted out to the internet at large. I have ...
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Connecting a network wireless adapter to BackTrack 5 R3
I installed BackTrack 5 R3 x64 on a VMware Workstation 10 while running Windows 8 x64. I bought a Network Wireless adapter "TL-WN8200ND" and this adapter works as normal in my system.
But when I ...
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How to get the total allocated size of the files inside a folder on Windows
I have a SMB share in which I keep a bunch of dynamic VHD and QCOW2 images used as volumes for virtual machines. This share is supposed to be used by Hyper-V as well as KVM nodes.
I'd like to know ...
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How to configure Open vSwitch bridge to make all ports trunked?
I am trying to configure open vSwitch on a XenServer install to trunk all ports with VLANs. How would I make it so that whenever a new VM is added the port that is connected to it is automatically ...
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Two different GPUs, one [virtual] monitor on windows 7
i have two GPUs on my windows 7 guest configuration, one is virtual, but looks like a real one for windows (Cirrus VGA from qemu/XEN setup), and one is fully real, Radeon HD7870, which is dedicated ...
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Graphics card in guest system
My host system is Debian Jessie x64. I'm using VirtualBox 4.2+. Guest system is Win 7 x64. I enabled 3D acceleration. Also, installed guest drivers but any 3D app works really slow and Aero doesn't ...
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Can't find/enable virtualization
I have a AMD Athlon 7850 Black Edition and I can't seem to find VT-x or AMD-V. I've looked literally every where in my BIOS. My BIOS is a ASUSTeK M2N68-AM Plus (AM2). I looked it up and yes, my CPU ...
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VM Join Domain and Connect to Internet
I'm not really strong in networking and virtualization but I need to solve this case.
I have 4 servers in my VM with 1 of it as Domain Controller and 1 of it need to be connected to internet.
I ...
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AMD-V doesn't work
I need to run a Linux distro (debian) in Virtual machine, but AMD-V just doesn't work.
Any idea why? I've tried using Virtualbox and VMware.
Virtualization in BIOS is enabled.
Here are my specs:
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Headless hypervisor installation
I currently have an HP ProLiant Microserver set up at home, for standard tasks - a simple Linux distro, running a few services (Transmission, Sickbeard, etc.), hosting a few websites, e-mail, and such....
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While Deploying Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), I'm not able to add any VM's in the Collection
I am trying to create a Virtual Desktop collection, when ever i reach the page where it asks to select a Virtual Desktop Template it does not detect any Virtual Desktop even when I have a VM on the ...
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'skb rides the rocket' in a Xen guest
I've just set up Ubuntu 13.10 server as a VM on my Ubuntu/Xen server, and I'm getting these weird lines in my guest's syslog.
Nov 12 10:26:32 human kernel: [130782.315333] xennet: skb rides the ...
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Shell on my Vagrant box is slower than it should be
The shell on my vagrant box is incredibly slow, atleast at some things. For instance, if I press enter with nothing typed in, it takes about 3-5 seconds for it to be ready to take another command. ...
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Which disk image support siplit into files, VDI, VMDK, or VHD?
Different from this quesiton,
What disk image should I use with VirtualBox, VDI, VMDK, VHD or HDD?
Does only vmdk format support 'splitting the storage file into files'? What about other formats?
For ...
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Virtualizing Windows with VT-d to play within it
I would like to know if what I want to is possible.
First, here is my hardware configuration :
MB : Gigabyte H77-DS3H
Intel Core i5 3330 (3.00GHz)
MSI Nvidia GTX 760
8 Gb RAM 1333 MHz
What I want to ...
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Simple networking: Hyper-V Internal Virtual Switch on Windows 8.1
I am running Windows 8.1. I have downloaded Windows Vista VM for IE7 testing from http://modern.ie
I also have VirtualBox installed to use with vagrant. Since Hyper-V is not yet supported by vagrant.
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