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How can I install Linux and Windows 7 to run side by side, not requiring reboot?
There are two additional ways of running Windows and Linux side by side that you haven't mentioned in your question:
You could install Windows Subsystem for Linux if you are running 64-bit Windows 10....
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Why can't VirtualBox or VMware run with Hyper-V enabled on Windows 10
VirtualBox and VMware Workstation (and VMware Player) are "level 2 hypervisors." Hyper-V and VMware ESXi are "level 1 hypervisors."
The main difference is that a level 2 hypervisor is an application ...
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Sharing a folder between windows 7 and mac os x on vmware
You need to follow this procedure in order to share files between Windows 7 and Mac OS X on VMWare :
Go in your virtual machine settings and select 'Options' tab.
Click on 'Folder Sharing' and tick '...
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Can a hypervisor like VirtualBox be used to launch a virtualized OS which is also directly bootable?
It's possible, yes, and it doesn't necessarily have to be slower, since these days it's not emulation anymore, it's virtualization – most CPUs support hardware-assisted virtualization (VT-x and such), ...
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How can I install Linux and Windows 7 to run side by side, not requiring reboot?
I believe that the solution with the least overhead would be using Linux as your primary OS and using KVM (kernel-based virtual machine, not a KVM switch though that could be used as well) to ...
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What is the difference between NAT / Bridged / Host-Only networking?
The below table shows the connectivity between VM and Host for different network types. Please see Virtualbox Docs: Networking for a brief explanation of the modes.
'+' means 'yes, this direction of ...
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Why can't VirtualBox or VMware run with Hyper-V enabled on Windows 10
Starting from Windows Redstone 4 build, QEMU will be able to run under Hyper-V by employing the Windows Hypervisor Platform API.
The Windows Hypervisor Platform accelerator (WHPX) is being integrated ...
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How to reduce the size of VMware disk
There are three steps:
Defragment (no need to un/remount anything)
sudo e4defrag /
Ignore any errors. Some files like symlinks and device files can't be defragmented.
Zero-fill all unused space so ...
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Can a hypervisor like VirtualBox be used to launch a virtualized OS which is also directly bootable?
qemu will let you use block devices like /dev/sda2, etc. as virtual hard drives. VMWare does as well. Not sure about Virtualbox.
When you boot /dev/sda2 in a VM, it will have a similar effect as ...
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What is the difference between NAT / Bridged / Host-Only networking?
While the other answers here provide good descriptions for the NAT and Bridged modes, their explanations for Host-only mode are not quite accurate.
From VMware's documentation, under Configuring ...
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Is it possible to autostart a VMware virtual machine in background as a Windows service, and shut it down elegantly when Windows shuts down?
If you're using VMware Workstation, you could make the VM a "Shared VM" and can configure it to automatically start (in the library, right-click on "Shared VMs" and choose "Manage AutoStart VMs"). By ...
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VMWare tools install failure. Unable to find "depmod" progam
depmod and other tools are found inside /sbin/. After entering these paths manually when the install script asked for them, it showed me that I should instead use the open-vm-tools packages, see http:/...
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Is it possible to autostart a VMware virtual machine in background as a Windows service, and shut it down elegantly when Windows shuts down?
You can also use the vmrun command.
You can use a script to start a VM, for example:
vmrun -T ws start "F:\VMWare-VMs\S1.vmx"
and you add the script at Windows startup.
More info about ...
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VMware Tools for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial
Check out the "vmhgfs-fuse" command.
I was able to do the following:
I made a directory to mount the hgfs share, let's call it ~/vmshare. Then I did:
vmhgfs-fuse ~/vmshare
On my system, with the ...
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Should I split VMware virtual disk into multiple files or not?
Disadvantages of monolithic disks:
If you delete snapshots and need to consolidate unused .vmdk files, if you need to defragment .vmdk files, etc., then your host needs as much free space as the ...
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Can a hypervisor like VirtualBox be used to launch a virtualized OS which is also directly bootable?
It is completely possible, in fact, I used to do this!
I had one partition / disk (I forget which) with Windows one with Linux, I think it was in the days of Windows XP (admittedly, that did last ...
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Unable to ping from VM's to host machine
In Windows 7 (also the case in Windows 8/10) by default the Windows Firewall is set to block ping requests. To be able to ping your host from one of your virtual machines--or anywhere else on your LAN,...
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can the spectre security vulnerability be in a virtual machine?
Yes Spectre can cross host/guest, guest/host and guest/guest boundaries because this is a CPU level flaw that means that potentially sensitive information can be leaked across anything that runs on a ...
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Should I split VMware virtual disk into multiple files or not?
There seems little point in splitting an image file unless you're creating it on a FAT32 volume or network share that has file size restrictions.
VMware has this to say:
Select Split virtual disk ...
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git clone fatal: 'origin' does not appear to be a git repository for VMware vmhgfs share
I had the same problem, also in a VM (although Ubuntu 14.04 under VMWare Workstation). The problem was a permissions problem between my Ubuntu VM guest user and my Windows host user. Although on the ...
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Convert a USB drive into a Virtual Machine HDD
for those wanting to convert the drive instead of using a transparent virtual disk, or link... (took me around 20 minutes to convert a 32GB USB drive to vmdk)
VBoxManage convertfromraw \\.\...
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Sharing a folder between windows 7 and mac os x on vmware
Unlike other answers posted so far, this one explains how to connect the host and guest via VMware Shared Folders.
Install VMware Tools in the VM
If a security dialog pops up saying that a system ...
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How can I install Linux and Windows 7 to run side by side, not requiring reboot?
As all the other answers to this question have mentioned, virtualization is the way to go. One way to minimize the performance penalty would be to run Windows as your primary OS, and virtualize a ...
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Getting 1920x1080 resolution or 16:9 aspect ratio on Ubuntu or Linux Mint
@InvalidBrainException's answer is great. In addition, in order to it make it permanent and prevent running commands on each restart, you can write the following configs into file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/...
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Manually add a resolution to Gnome with Wayland
tldr -- On Gnome, you can set kernel boot parameter to manually override the resolution of your monitor. If you're using the Weston implementation (which apparently Gnome isn't), you can configure ...
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Windows 10 task manager shows 0% cpu under vmware
Uninstalling Hyper-V, which windows installed by default for some reason, solved this problem and many other problems I had with my virtual machine.
It can be uninstalled using the following steps:
1....
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VMWare and Docker on Same Windows 10 PC
This is now possible after Windows 10 May 2020 Update (Build 19041) with WSL2
Install WSL 2 Linux Kernal
Turn on Virtual Machine Platform Windows Feature
Hyper-V, Windows Hypervisor Platform and ...
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Open-VM-Tools vs VMware-Tools
In recent versions of VMware, it recommends the use of open-vm-tools
This is the KB
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803
Which basically said:
VMware recommends using open-vm-tools redistributed by ...
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Can a hypervisor like VirtualBox be used to launch a virtualized OS which is also directly bootable?
Interestingly, for those running VMware Fusion on a Mac, with a Windows bootcamp partition, it's possible to start a virtual machine that runs off the bootcamp partition:
VMware Fusion allows you ...
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Can a hypervisor like VirtualBox be used to launch a virtualized OS which is also directly bootable?
I did that. It's pretty useful, but there are some limitations and setting it up isn't trivial.
The native-or-VM OS must be tolerant about hardware it runs on. Most Linux distros don't care and just ...
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