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Installing Boson Netsim on Mac M1

I am trying to get Boson Netsim to run on my new Mac OS M1. I am unable to get Windows to run using Virtual Box. Just found that it is not yet supported on M1. I only get an option for Windows 32 bit ...
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MacOS X Catalina VM froze on boot

I am attempting to set up a MacOS X Catalina virtual machine on VirtualBox 6.1.16 r140961 (Qt5.6.2). I followed the guide at WikiGain and loaded into a UEFI interactive shell. I found a user in the ...
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Changing VirtualBox VM running macOS guest on macOS host to full screen?

How do I change the VirtualBox VM macOS High Sierra guest to full screen? When I click Full-Screen mode under the top menu bar under View it has huge black borders around the VM, while the VM is ...
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How to mount macOS High Sierra on VirtualBox(Mac Host)?

I have installed VM Virtualbox on my MacBook with Mojave. My objective is to install macOS High Sierra on a VM. Post creating the VM and attaching the ISO image, once the VM starts it is stuck in EFI ...
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Is there an easy way to convert a Parallels disk to a VirtualBox disk?

The question has been asked before, but there appear to be no current solutions. I have a current version of Parallels 11, and a current version of VirtualBox 4.3. I have an existing Windows image in ...
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How to allow Nginx in guest VM access shared folders in host os?

My setup I want to setup a Ubuntu VM to act as a web server for development. Reason I want to have a development environment as close to the actual production environment as possible. Problem The ...
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Boot VirtualBox VM from USB on macOS

I'm trying to save space on my Mac's internal hard drive by installing a Windows 10 virtual machine on a 128gb USB 3.1 USB, but I can't seem to figure out how to boot from the USB with VirtualBox. I ...
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Shrink MacOS guest (vmdk file)

Is there a simple way to maintain a MacOS VM? I setup a VM with growing disk, which had original just 8GB. How I have a 45GB monster drive with a low real usage. I had to install a 8GB ziped package ...
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Can't ping Ubuntu VM from OS X

I've looked at many of the similar questions, but none seem to solve my issue. I'm running Ubuntu 13.04 Raring in a VM through VirtualBox and I'm trying to communicate with it from my OS X Mavericks ...
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How to setup TOR as a network interface for VMs on Mac OS Mojave?

I am using VirtualBox and Whonix to create a secure way of letting a VM communicate only through TOR. However, I would like to setup TOR on the host Mac OS as a network interface so it can be selected ...
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Cannot connect to apple id using Virtual Box Mac OS High Sierra

When I try connecting to the app store, itunes, etc. it returns an error that says "Unexpected error occured". That's it, nothing else. I have a virtual machine running Mac OS High Sierra. I am using ...
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(On a mac) - VirtualBox not able to access the .vmdk file for a usb virtual machine

When selecting my virtual disk in virtualbox, the error reads as in the photo. I have done this successfully while "sudo -b"-ing the executable in the app, but I need the file to be under my user.
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How to Keep running VirualBox guest OS even when Host system logs off?

I am new to Virtual Box. To complete one of the project I choose VirtualBox. I am running Kubuntu 64 bit OS on Virtual Box and Mac OS High Sierra as Host OS. I am running a Perl Script in guest OS ...
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VM: Mac OSX Host, Windows Guest: Use VT-d so that the fast GPU is available for the VM?

Vt-d is enabled in recent MacBook Pros, but I did not find any information on actual gpu sharing. Is it possible to set up a MacBook Pro with two GPUs (Intel, nVidia or AMD) so that I can use the ...
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Apple Push Notifications don't work on virtual machine

I'm trying to send web push notification to Safari, my js code and backend are working correctly, because on a real machine it works. But when I run a virtual machine for testing, it does not work. ...

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