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Is there a way to make a virtual machine that resembles a given real one as closely as possible?

I've taken a habit of installing OSes on older machines as follows: I create a virtual disk drive on my more powerful desktop, so that it is as large as the physical drive, then I run the installation ...
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VM, dual book + VM, or multiple machines?

I'm trying to configure my long term setup and have a menu of many devices, although most of them are older and have an issue or two. Lenovo ThinkCentre M82 SFF w/ Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570 CPU @ 3....
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vt-x error setting up vb. cant change settings

im trying to set up a virtual machine of dos using oracle on windows 10. using all default settings (32mb of ram, virtual hard disk with 500mb, hard disk file type = vdi... ) specific version of ...
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XenServer 7.5 Virtual Machines not booting without installation media

I recently turned an old gaming computer into a server and decided to put XenServer 7.5 on so I could flip between Windows and Linux servers. Installation of the hypervisor went well and I proceeded ...
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what is the network bandwidth of a virtual nic?

I am trying to do communication between two VMs hosted on one server. I want to know what is the maximum bandwidth capacity of virtual nics ? I am using virtual machine manager.
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Hyper-V virtual network adapter's are assigned physical interface's mac

I am having trouble with hyper-V to force it to use the actual mac address of the virtual network adapter when packets from these virtual interfaces leave the physical network adapter, I've two ...
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Windows XP virtual machine in VirtualBox fails to boot after disabling VT-x/AMD-V

I use VirtualBox 4.3.4 and I want to move a Windows XP base VM from my PC to my laptop. I have a 64-bit Windows 8 on on my PC so VirtualBox supports CPU acceleration and hardware virtualization. But ...
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Mac virtualize Windows

I want to develop graphics application with latest OpenGL support. Sadly, my iMac with Mac installed only supports OpenGL 4.1, with Windows in Bootcamp I go up to the latest 4.4 version. However, I ...
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What does a hypervisor means in the context of virtual machines?

In this Harvard lecture about HTTP and VPS at min 59:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KuO4r5CHjM the lecturer talks about Virtual Private Servers and Virtual Machines. He said that they are managed ...
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