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 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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Why does Virtual Box freeze on "Starting Windows" screen on macOS Catalina 10.15.7?

I have macOS Catalina 10.15 and I installed VirtualBox v7.0 to run Windows 7 x64 (and windows10 x64). When I boots it hangs at "Starting Windows" screen. Screenshot below.
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I can not run any Windows 11 VM on my Windows 11

I have AMD 3800x with SVM enabled and I tried to run Win 11 VM using VMWare and Virtual Box without any success. VMWare display error Virtualized AMD-V/RVI is not supported on this platform. Continue ...
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Windows 11 sudden issue with Windows Sandbox and Windows Subsystem for Android

For some days now, my Windows Sandbox & Windows Subsystem for Android, stopped working and i can't find a way to solve the issue after trying many suggestions i found on the internet. Windows ...
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Virtualization is locked in BIOS

I want to run virtual machines on my computer, my Windows is currently 32-bit and I'm switching to 64, I don't know why they gave it with 32 because It would work with 64. When I go to the BIOS the ...
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How to run a 68000 binary (68376 binary) on a modern version of embedded Linux?

We are developing an embedded product, using Yocto Linux on an ARM architecture, a STM32 from ST. For the current release, we aim to re-use, as quick and dirty as possible, the code originally written ...
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Running Android emulator inside a Virtualbox Vm

I'm trying to setup a VM with a complete android development stack (SDK, Platforms, Eclipse etc) for a Hackathon. I'm having real trouble getting the emulator to start in the VM. I realize that the ...
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GPU passthrough /DDA for RTX 4080 for Windows guest on Hypervisor-V

I have an Nvidia 4080 RTX 12GB, in an laptop installed on windows 11 pro with 13900 CPU and 64 GB Ram. The CPU also has integrated Intel xe graphics. I tested in Vmware workstation 17 pro graphic ...
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Creating a Window 10 Pro VM on a Window 10 Pro, with hyper V

On my computer with Windows 10 Pro, I wish to create a virtual machine with Windows 10 Pro. I seem to be unable to do this, as I can only create the following OS's. I'm not sure if this is possible, ...
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RT2800 USB: monitor mode using Virtual Box

Information I am using a WiFi USB Adapter and the latest version of Kali running under VirtualBox. Chipset: Ralink RT2870/3070 Driver: rt2800usb Manufacturer: TP-Link FCC ID: TE7WN727NV3 It is ...
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Windows 10 on an old VAIO. Hypervisors?

A classmate asked me to try to restore an old Sony Vaio laptop to working condition. It's a VPCEE2E1E (model PCG-61611M) which originally came with Win7 Home and a built-in licence. The HDD is ...
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Installing VirtualBox in linux via a script with also includes signing kernal modules

I have a linux VM (ubuntu 20.04) with secure boot settings active. Basically I need to install virtualBox and then create multiple VMs via virtual box via script only. No manual intervention should be ...
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How to Share a Single GPU Among Multiple VMs with Parsec Connectivity?

I've managed to set up my HP Z4G4 workstation tower so that multiple guest VMs can share a single Quadro P4000 GPU. This was achieved by utilizing the scripts from the “Easy GPU PV” project found on ...
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"ACPI\QEMU0001" unknown ACPI device after Windows 2008 install with libvirt

After installing Windows 2008 in a libvirt virtual environment (command below for reference), I'm stuck with an "Unknown device" in Device Manager. The Hardware Ids show ACPI\QEMU0001. I tried using ...
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What do these GPU parameters mean?

I was able to get some GPU virtualization working by following the steps shown on this site. However, I do not understand what any of the values mean. For example, I get the same output when running ...
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How to convert a .vhd, .vdi or .vmdk that has snapshots to .qcow2 and vice-versa without losing any snapshots?

I'll often have to switch OSes and hypervisors back and forth soon. The main use case will mostly be converting from Windows to Linux and from VirtualBox (.vdi), VMWare Workstation (.vmdk) and Hyper-V ...
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Fedora Virtualbox VM machine when clicked, details UI not visible

I am in Fedora and I have installed virtualbox latest, earlier it was showing the UI of a VM when I click on it but later on , I initiated File manager and now I can only see below components on the ...
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Can't drag-drop from Windows 10 to Ubuntu VirtualBox machine

Trying to drag/drop (or copy/paste) files or folders from my Windows-10 (x86-64) machine to an ubuntu VirtualBox machine. It does not work. My VirtualBox version is: 5.1.26 r117224. Guest machine is ...
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Adobe PDF Preview Handler Error in Windows Explorer

I virtualized the installation of Adobe Acrobat Pro XI v11.0.11 together with Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 v14.0.7015.1000 x86, carried out on Windows 7 Enterprise v6.1.7601 x64, making use ...
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Allow only VM to access Internet and not Host Machine

I have Oracle VirtualBox on my laptop. Currently my VM and my host (the laptop) can access the Internet. I want only the VM to be able to access the Internet; I don't want my laptop to get any ...
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Intel Virtualization hidden in BIOS

I am trying to enable virtualization on my Debian system. The command sudo modprobe kvm-intel fails with Operation not supported error. Processor: Intel Xeon E31260L Motherboard: Intel Serverboard ...
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Virtualization is enabled in BIOS but is not working in Windows 11

I have an Intel i7-9700K, and everywhere keeps saying that virtualization is not enabled. I've checked and it is indeed enabled in the BIOS, but it isn't working in Windows 11 Pro 21H2. The Intel ...
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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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Docker, start image from scratch

All getting-started guides for Docker based their docker images on someone else's. However, even the base image has 180MB of virtual storage there. So, I'm wondering, is it possible to start my ...
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Which host and guest are best for Linux Virtualization?

I'm going to run virtual machine (guests are Linux and Windows) on a Linux 64-bit distribution. I tried OpenSUSE with Xen but snapshots with Xen aren't friendly. I will think about VirtualBox but on ...
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Which is the fastest Linux hypervisor?

As there is Cygwin which is an API-level VM, I guess there may be a similar one on Linux? Or, generally which hypervisor is fastest? I only care about Linux. BTW, I can't install Xen in Ubuntu ...
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How to enable Hyper-V in a windows guest?

I have a Windows guest OS installed under QEMU kvm (host is Linux), the system works fine, but Both task manager and systeminfo showed that Hyper-V is supported but disabled in firmware, how can I ...
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Unable to load a required virtual machine component and it's not KB3045999 fault

This is known issue that is caused by KB3045999: The application was unable to load a required virtual machine component. Please contact the publisher of this application for more information. ...
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Cannot connect to Hyper-V Virtual Machine

I have a Windows XP Virtual Machine that is running perfectly (I can watch it bootup and the desktop appear in the Hyper-V Manager thumbail preview) but I cannot Connect to it. It just keeps timing ...
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Containerized applications and hardware resources

Linux user here. With increasing frequency, I am considering using containerized applications for several applications, mainly to avoid dependency problems and stressful reinstallations in a hurry. In ...
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How to enable virtualization via PowerShell on Win10, HP laptop?

How to enable virtualization via PowerShell on Win10, HP laptop? Reason why I am not doing it this way: Go to Windows Settings Click on Update & Security Now click on Recovery Click Restart now ...
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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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Unable to bind hyper-v virtual switch to ethernet adapter

I'm having trouble creating a virtual switch for a virtual machine I have in hyper-v. I had a virtual ethernet switch set up and connected to the machine before, after deleting this at some point, I ...
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docker in docker without privileged mode

Last time I used docker in docker for runners, but it requires privileged mode compose file: version: '3.7' services: runner: image: gitlab/gitlab-runner:latest volumes: - ./config:/...
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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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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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How do I image the beginning portion of a drive with qemu-img convert? (Similar to using dd count=)

I have 500 GB (~475 GiB) SSD that I want to image with qcow2. I plan on following this example on moving the Windows installation to a Qemu/KVM VM. I shrunk the ~470 GiB bitlocker root partition to ...
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Can’t access Google Cloud Compute VM instance using external IP

I have set up and enabled a VM to allow HTTP traffic and Allow HTTPS traffic but I cannot access the external IP in a browser. I’m using the VM for web development testing and need to see changes made....
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Windows 10 - Hyper-V Support : Yes, Virtualization: Disabled

I've gone through all the steps and gotten Hyper-V enabled properly, but my system still shows Virtualization as disabled even though it also shows Hyper-V is enabled. I have enabled Hyper-V in ...
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WinXP BSOD when run on Qemu

I have an old virtual machine on virtual box with WinXP, I converted it on raw QEMU format, I tried to run this image on Win10 and on Debian but I have this BSOD. This is the command line on Windows I ...
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Virtualisation options on M1/M2/M3 Mac running macOS Sonoma [closed]

I am in need on virtualizing apps on Mac ARM running Sonoma. As Parallels is out of the question due to restrictions on my end, I am in need of using another option. VMWare's "player" doesn'...
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multipass - launch failed: cannot connect to the multipass socket

I snap installed multipass on Debian 12 Linux (bookworm) - that was a fun task in itself. However, when I try to multipass launch --name myVMname, I get: $ multipass launch launch failed: cannot ...
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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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How do I enable GPU acceleration on new Hyper-V virtual machines? (Can't use remoteFX)

I've recently set up a Hyper-V virtual machine that runs Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit, the host OS is also running Windows 10 Pro 64 bit I want the VM to be able to play games, I tried to play a game but it'...
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I can't for the life of me get networking to work on a linux kernel + busybox. (QEMU/KVM)

I have this little experiment lab system that i made in QEMU (just for fun). The system consists of the linux kernel + busybox. Most of the system seems to work pretty alright now and i can do most of ...
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ping dns works but nslookup fails?

I have an issue with DNS in my current lab environment, this happened after a snapshot recovery on the DC image : Following Screen shows that i can ping google.com but nslookup google.com fails, i ...
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Running Windows software on Mac OS X

My friend needs to run some Windows (XP/Vista/7/whatever) software on her MacBook Pro, ideally in a window whilst running Mac OS X. Is that possible? EDIT: The most important issue is ease of setting ...
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Firewall on VirtualBox

I believe I have researched my question and have not found a answer. I have installed Virtual Box on top of Windows 10x64 and then installed three different virtual operating systems; Windows 7, ...
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How to mount a VirtualBox .vdi disk on Linux?

I am running Fedora on a VirtualBox. Sometimes to allow for performing some real hardware testing, I need to run my development environment on a physical machine. So I need the hard disk of the ...
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What is the difference between vmWare Workstation and vmWare vSphere?

It may be a dumb question, I already did googling but did not get a clear answer for me: What is the difference between vmWare Workstation and vmWare vSphere? Can vSphere be used instead of ...

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