An x86 virtualization software package developed by Oracle (which bought Sun, which bought Innotek).
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Sharing folder from Windows Host to Freebsd Guest
First of all, let me say that though I use Linux (Red Hat, at work) regularly, I am a complete beginner when it comes to actually administrating it.
What I am trying to accomplish:
I have (at home) ...
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How can I run `hackxor` inside VirtualBox?
I've found hacking game hackxor, but it's made for vmware.
I don't have any experience with vmware and I don't want to install it in my machine.
So I'd like to run hackxor inside VirtualBox if it ...
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NAT (Internet connection sharing) switching between multiple public interfaces
My Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) laptop has three network interfaces:
eth0: wired interface sometimes connected to the Internet
wlan0: wireless interface sometimes connected to the Internet
vboxnet0: wired ...
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How to share a tethered iPhone internet connection with VirtualBox guest?
I mostly connect to my Linux distros to the internet via a USB iPhone tethered connection (MyWi app).
I have just installed an Windows XP guest OS via Virtualbox on Ubuntu 12.04.
How do I connect ...
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My VirtualBox Virtual Machine doesn't detect my USB attached disk
I'm using the latest version of both Virtual Box (4.1) and CentOS (6.2). I would like my Western Digital USB drive to be recognized by my VirtualBox guest operating system.
My host system, Windows ...
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VirtualBox guest: 16 CPUs detected but only 1 online
I am running VirtualBox (using the Qiime image http://qiime.org/install/virtual_box.html)
The physical hardware is a 32 core machine. The virtual machine in VirtualBox has been given 16 cores.
When ...
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Any reason NOT to run Linux in a VM all the time?
I've switched to using Arch Linux for most of my day to day work and don't need Windows for anything but gaming and the couple of apps that aren't ported to Linux like OneNote. My Linux distro is ...
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how to setup virtual box guest additions (drivers) on systemd system (exherbo)
The trouble is when I run ./VBoxLinuxA... I'm getting:
Unable to determine your Linux distribution
so there is build in script :
check_system_type() {
if [ ! "$ro_SYS_TYPE" = "" ]; then
...
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gparted live CD can't resize a partition?
I recently ran out of space on a VirtualBox VM (CentOS guest) managed by Vagrant. It was using a .vmdk image, so I couldn't dynamically resize it. Following these instructions, I cloned the old image ...
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How to solve “building the main Guest Additions module Failed”
I tried to install the VirtualBox Guest Additions module in a VM guest running CentOS but I get this error message when everything else was okay:
building the main Guest Additions module Failed
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VirtualBox networking host-only: Linux host XP Guest
I'm having trouble connecting XP ( Guest system on VBOX ) to Debian Testing (host).
The version VirtualBox 4.1.12
Relevant parts of the output of commands.
ifconfig on debian:
eth0
inet ...
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amd64 or i386? VirtualBox can't start client VM
My Debian kernel is linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64, and the command uname -m returns x86_64. However, apt-get does get i386 packages (those /var/cache/apt/archives/*_i386.deb), and never gets amd64 ...
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Qt based apps have wrong encoding?
I have Ubuntu 11.04. Yesterday I installed VirtualBox and the encoding was wrong (I couldn't read anything). I know its UI very well so I tried changing the UI display language but it didn't work as ...
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How can one switch to ttyX in virtualbox?
I run VirtualBox in Linux , running CentOS in it , and I can't switch to ttyX in the CentOS since I'll go to the ttyX in my Linux.
Any solutions ?
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VirtualBox guest using Bridged networking unable to obtain DHCP address
I have a computer, called Loki, that works as a virtual machine host and DHCP server. The DHCP daemon is listening on port eth0. Part of /etc/dhcp.conf:
subnet 192.168.13.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
...
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3D Acceleration/Compiz Failure
I've installed Linux Mint 12 & Fedora 16 in VB 4.1.10 on a Windows 7 Host which has a Intel i3 processor and Intel HD 3000 graphics card. For both Linux installations I've enabled 3D acceleration ...
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VirtualBox: two network interfaces (NAT and host-only ones) ina a Debian guest on Ubuntu
I created a Debian VM on VirtualBox with two interfaces: a NAT one (for accessing internet) and a host-only one. However, I do not know how to make both interfaces work at the same time. If I the ...
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Installing centos server in a virtual machine
I have little Unix/Linux experience, so sorry if this sounds stupid.
What I want to do is simple: I want to learn CentOs so that I can manage my own web server. I did so by buying a dedicated and ...
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No networking for Centos under VirtualBox
Running an Ubuntu desktop server. I installed virtual box, then installed CentOS as a virtual machine. Centos is not starting the eth0 network adaptor. When I start it manually, I cannot connect ...
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Self contained VirtualBox VM
I would like to create VirtualBox VMs which are entirely contained in a single
directory (including various aspects that are normally kept in a configuration in the ~/ directory).
The idea is to ...
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Configure a bridged Ethernet adapter in a VirtualBox guest running Scientific Linux
I installed Scientific Linux 6.2 x86 in VirtualBox on Windows 7 x64.
The adapter is
Adapter 1: Paravirtualized Network (Bridged adapter, Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller)
...
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Increasing serial baud rate within Ubuntu under VirtualBox
I'm debugging a kernel module under VirtualBox with a guest and host OS as Ubuntu 10.10. I'm using the virtualbox serial port but I'm maxing out at the baudrate 115200. My grub config looks like ...
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Is it a good idea to run freenas 8 (inside virtualbox) on a lamp server?
I am redesigning my home network setup (specifically my nas and server), and recently asked a question about running a lamp server and freenas 8 on two separate machines. However, in the spirit of ...
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VirtualBox Hangs when installing freebsd 9.0
When installing Freebsd 9.0 as virtualbox guest, it hangs. Freezes the guest OS, other VirtualBox windows works fine.
Logs attached, hardware is pentium D, 4 GB ram, Asus p5ld2 deluxe mainboard, OS - ...
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small Linux host for virtual box
Does anybody know a small and simple Linux distribution that contains not much more than the "VirtualBox" program?
I'd like to set up a machine that actually needs some kind of graphical display plus ...
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Multiple network adapters with Virtualbox guests?
I'm running VBox under Mac OS with multiple Linux guests (Redhat). Everything works fine except I want to test dual NICs in one of my guests. I'm using host-only adapters and would like to simulate ...
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Uninstalling default VBoxGuestAdditions on Debian
When I ran sh /media/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run I got the following warning message:
You appear to have a version of the VBoxGuestAdditions software
on your system which was installed from a ...
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Command line friendly virtual machine
I've been using Virtualbox for a while now, but the only way I've learned to interact with it is through the graphical interface.
Is there a way for me to send bash commands to the vm through the ...
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Booting the already installed Windows from the VirtualBox installed in Ubuntu
I want to boot the Windows which is installed in laptop's internal harddisk(/dev/sda1) from the VirtualBox installed in my Ubuntu. Can somebody tell me how to do this in VirtualBox.
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Printing from Linux guest with Windows host
I have a wireless printer set up on my Windows host, and I want to use it from my Linux guest. I got a "add a printer" window open, but when I click on "New", I get a few options, e.g. set up via ...
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Cloned VirtualBox CentOS disk is unbootable after cloning in GParted
I cloned and enlarged an existing virtual CentOS-6 disk by the following steps:
Create 15GB virtual disk and mount the old and the new disks in GParted.
In GParted copy boot, swap and ext3 ...
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How to access the data stored in guest operating system(i.e Virtual machine) from Host system [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Share memory between a virtual machine and the host
I wanted to access the data stored in virtual machine from my host machine.
I know that each VirtualMachine will have ...
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Shrink a Linux guest .vdi in VirtualBox?
I've seen instructions for shrinking the .vdi image for a Windows guest machine in VirtualBox 4.1.8. However, it used a tool to write zeroes to free space in the .vdi (nullfile-1.02.exe) that is for ...
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Virtual machines on different X servers
Is it a good idea to run virtual machine on a different X server? I can switch between them using Ctrl + Alt + Fx shortcuts. If my default X server hangs/crashes, I can still continue to work with the ...
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Why are my two virtual machines getting the same IP address?
I have two virtual machines both running on a Linux host (Fedora 16). I set both adapters as attached to NAT. When I boot them up they both have their default gateway set to 10.0.2.2. They also ...
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How to create a VirtualBox HDD?
I need to have a file on a VirtualBox guest's HDD. What are the solutions for this? How can I put a file on a Virtualbox guest's HDD?
Version: virtualbox-4.1 4.1.8-75467~Ubuntu~lucid
I mean I need a ...
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kernel panic error after recompilation
I am completely blocked, but temporarily.
I have an Ubuntu 11.10 in good condition, in this one I installed VirtuelBox.
I installed on VirtuelBox as Ghest Debian Squeeze with Kernel 2.6.32-5-686.
ja ...
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How to automatically start and shut down VirtualBox machines?
I need to run a software system that is intended to be installed as an appliance on a dedicated machine. In order to save energy, I plan to run the system on a VirtualBox VM instead.
The host is a ...
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What are the minimum requirements to run a graphical application?
This follows my previous question, where I installed Debian for the purpose of having a lightweight distro to run virtual machines on. I installed it with just the laptop and admin packages -- not ...
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What are some options for lightweight distros, specifically for virtulization? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which Linux distro is most lightweight for running virtual machines?
I've been using Linux for a year or two full time. I do a lot of programming, and I'm pretty good ...
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Running xen inside VirtualBox , possible?
Can i run a Linux system inside VirtualBox or VMware , with xen kernel ?
It's not intended for a real server or production workplace , just to learn the configuration of XEN.
BTW: target computer ...
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Default settings for VirtualBox machines?
How can I change the default settings of virtual machines that are created by VirtualBox? I don't need any floppy devices or sound enabled by default.
Thanks!
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1answer
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How to make new KVM with existing hard drive
I've been looking through the options of the qemu binary, I can't work this one out; Is it possible to make a new KVM machine with an existing hard drive image with an OS (XP Pro in this case) already ...
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NMAP probing VirtualBox Client
Cannot seem to probe virtual guests from the virtual host.
These guests can be probed from other devices on the same LAN/Network, but not the host. I can understand why it might be struggling, but I ...
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CentOS doesnt know what the internet is
So I have done my share of investigating this problem...
I just recently created an CentOS 6 VM on my LinuxMint box using VirtualBox. I left all the recommended values the same upon creation (8GB ...
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Increasing Screen Size/Resolution on a VirtualBox Instance of Centos
I have VirtualBox instance of Centos 5. The screen size is quite small (800*600) and I'd like to increase it to 1280*1080. Under the Gnome preferences for "Screen Resolution" I only get the option for ...
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VirtualBox appliance import locks up system
I have a Windows Vista x64 appliance that I am trying to import into the Open Source Edition of VirtualBox on Linux Mint 11 x86-64. The ovf file is 21.3 GB in size.
The problem I am having is that ...
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FreeBSD 8.2 STABLE installation failing on VirtualBox
On my pc-bsd box, I installed VirtualBox and trying to install FreeBSD 8.2 STABLE in 10GB space.
During installation, I selected all the default settings, it looks like this:
But after this, I get ...
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VirtualBox host-only network suddenly stopped working , no interface available inside
I'm unable to setup host-only network in virtualbox suddenly , please see my screenshot , there's no entry in "Name" comboBox
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Can applications like VirtualBox run at startup without any users logging in ubuntu?
This question comes to mind because we are tinkering with the idea of going VM with some of our servers. KVM is a bit involved, VMWare acts like they want to be a free product, and Microsoft is just ...
