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Drag and drop dont work after enabling bidirectional Kali linux on virtualbox?

im having the same problem and im also looking into a solution, i will post if i learn anything, hope to see if anyone resolved it... P.S I think no one will reply since the DRAG & DROP Feature is ...
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Why does Virtual Box freeze on "Starting Windows" screen on macOS Catalina 10.15.7?

I have found a solution. Mac OS Catalina has some compatibilty issues with Virtual Box version 7.x.x. Because I have an old MacBook Pro thet only supports Mac OS Catalina but none of newer I can not ...
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Black Screen Issue Running Windows 10 VM on MacBook Air M2 using VirtualBox

Your issue is due to the fact that Hypervisors are not Emulators, and you're using the wrong OS image. First, Hypervisors vs Emulators Windows 11 has an ARM version that appears to be pretty decent, ...
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How do I log into a new virtualbox debian machine?

Had the same problem just now, the correct answer is: username: vboxuser password: changeme
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I can not run any Windows 11 VM on my Windows 11

Turn Off core isolation memory integrity in Windows Security. Enable Virtualisation in BIOS. Turn off Hypervisor from program and settings. I am able to run VWware workstation in windows 11 home with ...
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Can't open a terminal in Ubuntu 22.04, running in VirtualBox 7.0 on a Windows 11 host machine

I resolved this by checking the 'Skip unattended installation' option while creating the Ubuntu VM in VirtualBox. Using VirtualBox 7.0, the checkbox can be found on the first screen when creating a ...
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VirtualBox Won't Start (Failed to acquire the VirtualBox COM object)

In my case, I had foolishly compiled and installed a version of curl that was different from the package-managed installation. Running VirtualBox from the command line resulted in first seeing /usr/...
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Installing VirtualBox on Debian 12 Bookworm With Errors

In my research, I found a script, /sbin/rcvboxdrv, to start the kernel modules was created during the install. This is actually a symbolic link to /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh. https://www....
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Virtualbox has no more network access when Cloudflare Warp VPN 2022.5.226.0 is active

Having the same issue on reg ole Win 10. Used warp for years and around the same time only the 1.1.1.1 setting works. Can confirm version 2022.4.115.0 still works. Previous versions can be found here. ...
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Installing VirtualBox on Debian 12 Testing

Progress!! :-) I found the package, so from within /var/cache/apt/archives I ran the below two commands: sudo wget https://debian-repo.stanford.edu/debian/pool/main/l/linux/linux-headers-6.1.0-18-...
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Installing VirtualBox on Debian 12 Testing

I'm on Debian 12 stable and this issue has been driving me bonkers all day. In my case, it seems to be that packages associated with linux-headers-6.1.0-18-common cannot be found in the repositories. ...
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How to convert a .vhd, .vdi or .vmdk that has snapshots to .qcow2 and vice-versa without losing any snapshots?

You can try using virt-v2v. It might support conversion with snapshots. https://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172425 I've never tried it myself, but you ...
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How secure is VirtualBox's VM encryption?

So other discussion aside, to respond to your questions; The encryption itself is AES256 in XTS mode, which makes it "Medium-High" strength encryption. The devil is in the details however. ...
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Why is VirtualBox slow when unfocused in macOS?

Just ran into the same issue, after a bit of experimenting I found out that running the VM in headless mode fixes this issue. I suppose because in this mode there is never going to be a concept of ...
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How to get IP address assigned to VM running in background?

The answer given by @ChrisInEdmonton worked very well for me. But if you want just the IP address, please pass the output to awk VBoxManage guestproperty get <vmname> /VirtualBox/GuestInfo/Net/0/...
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The state of the guest machines mismatched in virtualbox

For days I find the root cause is the unconventional username 0x00(hex decimal 0) which confused the command SERVER_PID=`ps -U \`whoami\` | grep VBoxSVC | awk '{ print $1 }'` in the VBox script. It ...
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