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VMware vs virtualbox for mac osx guest, does vmware support guest additions?
I spent hours downloading and setting up an image for mac os sierra for virtualbox
then I find out there is no guest additions for mac osx from virtualbox. So graphics slow and laggy. Resolutions not ...
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Internet is not running on Virtual machine
I am using using virtual box on windows 10, my guest machine is Mac OS X El Capitan. Host machine(Windows 10) is connected to wi-fi, but no internet on guest machine. I tried every solution available ...
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boot an installed linux virtually on mac
I'm using MacBookPro-Early-2015 OSX-10.10.5 .
I have an ubuntu installed in (hd0,gpt3) which boots correctly if I chose it in EFI boot option.
I want to boot it virtually from OSX using virtualbox or ...
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Make Windows VirtualBox guest follow Mac host DNS resolution
I already have a custom domain name entry on my Mac's /etc/hosts file that I use for local testing. I'm able to connect from a browser using http://dev.mysite.co:5000.
127.0.0.1 dev.mysite.co
127.0.0....
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VirtualBox generates blank running screens for Windows VM
I've installed Windows 10 with Guest Additions running on macOS Sierra and it works fine on the full screen.
However it generated after some time extra blank screen, then after another one as shown ...
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Can I share a Linux VM between a Windows PC and a Mac?
I've been looking to use a Linux VM as my development environment as a way to start fresh and have a whole OS dedicated to dev. I use two computers mainly, my Windows desktop and a Macbook. What I'd ...
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VirtualBox - Long Path in Shared Folder with OSX Host and Linux Guest
I have created a Linux (Ubuntu) VM by VirtualBox under OSX. But I'm experiencing Protocol error while creating files with long paths in shared folders (existed files are accessible though).
Is there ...
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New Ubuntu VM is not booting properly
I am attempting to create a Ubuntu VM using VirtualBox. I have successfully done this in the past.
I started by downloading the 64-bit desktop Ubuntu OS from the website. I then created a VM using ...
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Not able to ssh into ubuntu virtualbox vm from mac host
I have an ubuntu VirtualBox VM running on MacOS as host.
I have set up as a host-only network called vboxnet0, it is manually configured:
ip 192.168.0.15
netmask 255.255.255.0
not using dhcp
The VM ...
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access one guest os from another guest os in virtualbox through Python
Some background
So I am trying to work on a certain open source project. The open source software in question is designed to work on a VMWare workstation and I am trying to contribute to the project ...
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How do I can change setting RAM in VirtualBox?
everyone!
I'm a web developer (PHP) and I working on a laptop (MacBook Air middle 2012, 4 GB RAM). For my projects, I must use Ubuntu 14.04. For its, I use VirtualBox with Vagrant.
I always run my ...
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Why do I run out of disk space when I attempt to update a VirtualBox VM to Windows 10?
I have installed VirtualBox (version 5.22 with latest guest additions) on MacBook Pro (running Yosemite) and have one VM which is running Windows 7.
I want to upgrade this to Windows 10. The Windows ...
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How do I access local web address in a microsoft virtual machine?
I have downloaded a Windows 8.1 VM from Microsoft's dev center to do local testing for IE11.
Host is OSX
Guest is Windows 8.1
Using Virtualbox 5.0.12
Host machine /etc/hosts file:
127.0.0.1 www....
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Windows 95 as guest on VirtualBox Mac OS X Host - Successful installed, but boot fails
I am running VirtualBox (Version 5.0.20 r106931) on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014; 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7; 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3) with OS X El Capitan (10.11.4).
I already installed Windows ...
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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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