An x86 virtualization software package developed by Oracle (which bought Sun, which bought Innotek).
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How to setup GParted video mode in Oracle Virtualbox?
I'm trying to boot GParted live 0.14.1-6 within Oracle Virtualbox 4.2.6 r82870 (Extension Pack installed).
The host OS is Windows 7, the physical graphic card is an AMD Radeon HD 6900.
The physical ...
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Fedora 18 guest in VirtualBox 4.2: How to assign static IPv4 address to guest regardless of active ethernet interface on host
I have a Ubuntu 13.04 host running VirtualBox 4.2.12. This host has both a wired and a wireless network interface, but only one of which would usually be active at any given time. For example, at home ...
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Install postgresql 9.2 on debian wheezy (on virtualbox)
I have virtualbox with Debian Wheezy. I'm trying to install Postgresql 9.2 on it. When I trying do it by this instruction i have next:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading ...
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Clipboard sharing between the host OS and a virtual console of a VirtualBox linux guest
I have a CentOS guess OS running without X11. Is there anyway I can paste text from the host clipboard into the virtual terminals or highlight text in the vt via the console mouse daemon and paste it ...
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How to force release of a keyboard modifiers
Sometimes, when I use synergy between my machines when one is using full-screen VirtualBox guest I get stuck with some weird key modifiers turned on. If they exist on my keyboard (like Shift_L) I can ...
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Guest OS Ubuntu 12.04 no network connection
Recently added a new *.VDI image with Ubuntu 12.04 to my existing VirtualBox. The machine hangs with a "Waiting for network configuration" error, eventually times out after 60 seconds and boots in ...
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Sniffing VirtualBox machine behind NAT
I have a VirtualBox machine with a single interface connected to VB's NAT mode. What I would like to do is sniff all traffic coming from/to any machine behind that NAT. (I don't think I will need to ...
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Virtualbox NAT + Host-Only Adapter
My host is Ubuntu 12.04 and guest is a Debian squeeze (LAMP server). I want to allow the host to connect the guest. and allow the guest to connect the internet. The guest should not be enabled from ...
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Lightweight VirtualBox Host OS for single guest
I'm thinking about replacing some PC's on our network, some win32 and some linux. I'd like to run the actual OS I want in a VirtualBox instance, only one per PC, so I want a mega-thin Linux ...
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Smallest Linux/BSD distribution for IPv6 testing?
I'd like to do some IPv6 testing at home, using VirtualBox. I could create a few VMs and leave it at that, but I feel that to really test IPv6 you have to scale up to many nodes.
So I wonder: what's ...
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Gedit won't save a file on a VirtualBox share: Text file busy
I have a text file that I can change using other applications (for example openoffice). But when I try to change and save it using gedit, I am getting error from gedit:
Could not save the file ...
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CentOS 6.4 as VirtualBox guest under Windows 8 host, fullscreen mode causes unresponsive cursor
I apologize in advance if this is an inappropriate place to post this question.
I've installed VirtualBox 4.1.26 in Windows 8 6.2 (I don't think I have Pro) and got CentOS 6.4 installed with Guest ...
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Distributing Updates to VirtualBox Images with (Bandwith) Efficency
I'm currently responsible for a lab of machines that all need to run the same virtual machines. I want to automate my current setup of distributing VirtualBox virtual machines via rsync (erasing any ...
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Do USB emulators exist for Linux?
I'm looking for software that lets me have many virtual USB drives on my Ubuntu installation. I want them to be seen by virtual machines in VirtualBox so I can do backup operators. I need the drives ...
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Can I install ubuntu on a Virtualbox image and use it anywhere?
I am wondering if I install ubuntu once on a virtual machine running inside virtualbox, could I then use it as a portable OS and launch it from virtualbox on any machine? Or would I have to match the ...
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Trying to install fedora 19 beta TC3 (lxde spin) in virtualbox
I am trying to install fedora 19 beta TC3 (lxde spin), iso image from here:
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/19-Beta-TC3/Live/x86_64/
I have virtualbox running in my Lubuntu 13.04 raring ...
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How to make a distro be fullscreen on VirtualBox?
I'm running Debian as host and I fail to get Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora guests to be fullscreen. Changing video memory didn't help.
NOTES:
I haven't tried any other distro
I didn't create WinXP ...
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Right way to start VirtualBox with shared folders mounted
Need of commandline to start VM with access to shared folder. Now if I run
/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox --comment "win" --startvm "c252555c-bla-bla"
I get VM running but shared folders not ...
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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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Running linux kernel in Virtualbox
I just built a Linux kernel on Ubuntu and now I want to make it run on VirtualBox. I wanted it to be in an img format. I created a hard drive image by doing the commands
$ qemu-img create disk.img ...
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File permission issues with shared folders under Virtual Box (Ubuntu Guest, Windows Host)
I am using Ubuntu on Virtual Box and I have a folder which is shared between the host (Windows) and the VM (Ubuntu). When I open any file in the share folder in Ubuntu, I can not change it as its ...
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is linux/compiler.h a userspace header?
VirtualBox is looking for this file in /usr/include but it's missing in gentoo linux-headers
Does someone know if that is userspace header and gentoo is missing it? Or if that is not it, then if ...
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Unable to install CentOS in VirtualBox
I am trying to install CentOS 5.6 in My VirtualBox but I got this error on boot screen.
Your CPU Does not support long mode : use a 32 bit Distribution
My CPU is 64 bit I checked that using uname -a ...
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CentOS doesn't see USB device
I'm running CentOS 6.3 inside of VirtualBox and am having trouble seeing my USB 2.0 thumb drive.
In VirtualBox I go to Devices, USB drives and can capture my connected thumb drive. I've created a ...
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switch network on and off of a virtual remote server
I need to perform a testing panel which disconnects a network cable and connect it again on a specific virtual server via a php web page.
I found that ip & ifconfig can disconnect a network, but ...
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Fedora 18 host cannot ping Windows XP guest
I have my laptop running Fedora 18. I want to run a Windows XP guest using VirtualBox 4.2.6. My configuration seems correct, here
is my networking report.
Fedora 18 host
lo: ...
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How to SSH apache user from a remote guest server on VirtualBox with host-only network?
I have two CentOS virtual machines on VirtualBox . one of them let's say CentOS-1 holds my Web application code. Second is CentOS2.
I have two network connections between these two servers : Bridged ...
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Virtualbox 4.2.6 can't start on boot (OpenSuSe12.3)
I was working on a old version of VirtualBox (3.2.6) in which I can edit /etc/sysconfig/vbox, there I can add as many VM to start when the host boots up.
Now on the this new version 4.2.6 can't edit ...
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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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How to enable Virtualization AMD-V Aspire one AO725 from BIOS or otherwise
I'm try to use the virtualbox to virtualizate the system of 64bits but the error that get is:
La aceleración VT-x/AMD-V ha sido habilitada, pero no es funcional. Su sistema invitado de 64-bit ...
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How to find out UUID of a non-block USB device?
In a nutshell, the device I have is not a block device so blkid command doesn't suit me. But at least I can get some info about my device via lsusb -v command although it doesn't contain its UUID.
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Convert image of a partition into image of a disk with partition table
I have an image of an existing partition generated with dd if=/dev/sdXN of=image.bin. Now I want to use this image as the basis for a virtual machine. I know how to convert the image into a format ...
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How do I setup DNS names and static IPs for an Ubuntu virtualbox? [migrated]
I have Ubuntu installed on VirtualBox, on top of a Windows 8 host. How can I setup a static IP and DNS name for this virtual machine that other virtual machines will see?
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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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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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Unable to install VirtualBox Guest Addtions on Fedora 64bit LXDE
I'm Unable to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on Fedora 64bit LXDE, the first couple of Linux virtual machines I setup I had no problems with guest additions, but I had to throw them again because ...
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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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Gedit cannot save in shared folder (Virtualbox)
I'm getting the "Cannot save _ Unexpected error: Error renaming temporary file: Text file busy" in Gedit 2 when I try to save in a shared folder with Virtualbox (Debian). I've searched and apparently ...
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Trying to run Virtualbox under NX session: getting permission denied
I am running Nomachine NX server on my Ubuntu 12.04, and I'm connecting from a Windows 7 machine using NX client.
When I try to start VirtualBox, I get a permission denied error. The same user that ...
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Do I need acpid in a virtual machine?
I'm always wondering if power management facilities in a virtual machine is necessary?
i.e acpid.
And I'm not sure if they still function in a virtual machine.
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Virtualbox kernel modules not loading at boot - ubuntu 12.04
I have been running virtualbox on a ubuntu 12.04 laptop for a while and it has all worked smooth, but suddenly, probably after a kernel upgrade, the vbox* modules are not loading at boot, if I ...
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Slow response time with Gnome shell in Virtualbox fullscreen mode
Today I installed Fedora 15 in a VBox VM to try out Gnome 3. After installing the guest extensions almost everything works fine. Except for the slow response time in fullscreen mode (HOST+F).
By that ...
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How to install virtualbox guest addition in a guest machine with the latest Archlinux?
I want to install the virtualbox guest addition in a guest Archlinux machine.
The vbox version is 4.2.10 r84104, and the Arch install media is the latest release 2013.04.01 with systemd as the ...
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Fedora 18 Virtualbox Resolution Guest Additions
I've installed Fedora 18 64bit guest into a Virtualbox VM running on a Max OSX host. Previously I've installed Fedora 17 and after installing guest additions from the rpm fusion repo full screen mode ...
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no sound in fedora 18
I installed Fedora 18 Xfce Spin as a guest operating system on VirtualBox.It has no sound.
The operating system settings like that;
-Host Driver:Windows DirectSound
-Controller:ICH AC97
How to ...
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fstab not mounting VirtualBox shared folder?
I have a virtual machine here which I use for development, so as not to mess anything up in my existing environment.
I've made a share named "web" available to the guest OS (Ubuntu 12.10 Server) ...
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VirtualBox under Archlinux can't connect to Internet after “pacman -Syu”
I have a windows 7 VM in virtualbox and I'm used to connect the Internet though NAT.
But after the last system upgrade,The Internet can't be reached in the VM.
I check the log at /var/log/pacman.log ...
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Add ipv4 support to CentOS 6.3
I've installed two identical versions of CentOS using VirtualBox. The first instance works fine and has ipv4 configuration automatically working, but the second instance doesn't; it only comes with ...
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Error while mounting directory from host via NFS
I've been looking around the site but I couldn't find anyone with the same problem.
On VirtualBox, I have a machine with IP *.28 and another one with IP *.20.
The latter should mount a directory ...
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Debian VirtualBox Guest - Common Files to Remove for Space Saving?
I have created a VirtualBox guest using debian-6.0.7-amd64. I am using it as a clone template to create Java work nodes, so my needs are pretty much limited to the JVM, networking, SSH and the basics ...
