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disk util is very high + what the proactive steps we can do in order to minimize it
From what I see in vmstat (when the machine is loaded) you have serious amount of I/O operations, you have big amount of interrupts (usually for again I/O operations) and you have significant ...
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how can i login to my Azure VM with my AAD credentials?
My answer to another question applies here to. It also works with MFA.
Summary:
Check "Use a web account to sign in to the remote computer" in the Advanced tab of MSTC.
Use the Entra device ...
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Does SSD degrade if I regularly turn WSL and Virtual Machine Platform off and on?
I share the same opinion, any decent SSD can withstand huge amount of writes without any deterioration at all. I use CrystalDiskInfo x64 to give me information on the amount of writes. It gives me the ...
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Audio lagging when no screen updates are happening in VirtualBox?
OK, I fixed it. So, I installed OS X 10.6 in EFI mode without any bootloader, and then turned off the VM. I disabled the EFI option, and used iBoot to boot into the hard drive.
Sure enough, booting ...
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VMWare Workstation Keyboard and Mouse stop working
Found a workaround at vmware forum:
(1) Power off the VM, and add the config option:
keyboard.allowBothIRQs = FALSE
This might cause your Linux VM's input to hang if the Guest tries to Sleep/...
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VirtualBox Ubuntu VM doesn't automatically sync time with host even with Guest Additions installed
Assuming virtualbox-guest-additions is installed, if time-sync with the host is not working, you can enable it with:
Commands to be run from the Host
# Synchronize the time with the host every 60 ...
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How do I stop VMware player from resizing?
On VMware Player/VMware Workstation:
CTRL + P (or Edit -> Preferences)
Select Display section
In Autofit sub-section, uncheck Autofit guest
Click OK
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Put VM on real hardware
I have used clonezilla in the past.
Connect the hard drive or ssd from the new PC via USB.
Modifiy the vmware settings add the USB storage, from above, to said VM and make it boot from the clonezilla....
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Playing audio from a Hyper-V VM to its host (or any network device)
I'm using VBCable as audio driver and Sonobus for audio broadcasting over LAN . This works fine for me Setting Used
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Linux guest in VirtualBox restarts session after Win11 host wakes from sleep
It appears to be a bug in how VirtualBox detects the sleep state (it misses hooks to properly detect "Modern Standby" sleep mode pushed by Microsoft).
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/21917
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VMWare Workstation Keyboard and Mouse stop working
I think i have a solution.
I edit the .vmx file and change the mouse integration setting by adding :
mks.gamingMouse.policy = "gaming"
Since yesterday i have no more problem but i need to ...
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Which Virtual Display for UTM Ubuntu under M1 Mac?
It seems like your system is having trouble initializing OpenGL using the default virtio-gpu-pci.
Firstly, try using the virtio-ramfb-gl (GPU supported) graphics device option inside UTM for Apple ...
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VMWare Workstation Keyboard and Mouse stop working
I can confirm that this issue is happening with me on both Ubuntu 23.10 and Fedora 38 guests.
I am using VMWare Workstation Pro 17.5.0 build-22583795 on Windows 11 Pro, 64-bit (Build 22621.2715) 10.0....
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How to configure a traffic route from VM1 through Host to VM2
It is necessary through Host-Win
In that case, you preferably shouldn't have the VMs on the same subnet. When they're in the same subnet, they will "know" that they can reach each other ...
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Is it safe to defrag a virtual machine on an SSD?
I know this is an old article but I feel it's important as it isn't clear and can be miss leading. They say never try to defrag an SSD. Defragmenting the drive writes and rewrites data, which can age ...
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Error: Your CPU does not support required features (VT-x or SVM)
As you are trying to run an Android emulator within a VirtualBox you have to enable VT-X/AMD-V at two places:
In your physical PC system BIOS (not the BIOS of the VM): check your PC mainboard ...
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VMWare Workstation Keyboard and Mouse stop working
I got the same issue on vmware workstation 17 player on a windows 11 host with an ubuntu 23.10 VM.
System work fine and stop capturing keybord and mouse after a while..
System still working and is ...
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Can I install hypervisor type 1 after installing OS?
Just to throw it out there, you could probably get away with a disk-clone using tools like clone-zilla.
By taking a snapshot of your drive, you can install a VM on Windows and test the clone worked, ...
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lxc container : password and username
The q. is pretty old, the other answers are too and it is yet again different. What we do use to access shell in a linux container is exec command - similar to what we have in kubes:
lxc exec <cont ...
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VirtualBox 7 ubuntu - cannot configure two monitors
Apparently it was a bug in an early Virtual Box 7 build.
Now I am with 7.0.12 and I do not face the issue.
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Install Windows 10 in VM without ACPI (battery etc.)?
To be absolutely clear, VM guest should have no effect on your host hardware behavior other than what is necessary for it to run. If that would not be the case, bugreport it to Oracle.
Thus, any ACPI ...
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QEMU VM guest with no network in bridge mode on Arch Linux
You should use the bridge netdev instead, which AFAIK is the same as the tap one with the helper= param set properly.
If you use the tap one without the using the helper (usually found at /usr/lib/...
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VMWare Workstation Keyboard and Mouse stop working
I'm having the exact same issue on my laptop.
I'm using the built in keyboard and touch pad so not an issue with bluetooth or anything.
I'm running Kali in VMware Workstation 17 Player and my keyboard ...
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Install a 32bits distro on WSL 2
At last I solved my issue !
I ask to my friend to export his distro and then I imported it, and it works.
When I compile/run this code:
#include <cstdio>
int main ()
{
printf("...
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Configure Virtualbox to capture network traffic between 2 VMs on the same host from another physical machine
But this traffic cannot be seen because it seems that virtualbox not use the host NIC for inter VMs (on the same host) network traffic. I had confirmation of this behavior from virtualbox guide and ...
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How to assess the actual power (and whether mapped 1:1 to physical host CPU) of virtualized VM CPUs?
I am not sure you can do this reliably with only access to the VM guest (Just like we can't prove we are living in a simulation). One way to get a good part of the way there might be to spin up ...
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