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Failing to install Ubuntu 18.04 in as a guest in VirtualBox 6.1.0
I am trying to do something really simple but I am having a problem when doing it. I need to install Ubuntu 18.04 as a guest OS in VirtualBox in order to practice Linux material.
The thing is, I ...
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Enabling multiple CPUs prevents Ubuntu 18.04 guest from booting in VirtualBox
Using VirtualBox 4.3.18 r96516 on a Windows 8.1 host with NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=4. There are two guest virtual machines.
Windows XP (32 bit) using 2 CPUs
Ubuntu (64 bit) [18.04] using 1 CPU
Both ...
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Virtualbox crashes on VM boot
Less than a second after the Windows booting UI appears in a newly created VM with a Windows CD attached VirtualBox crashes.
I installed VirtualBox with apt (Version: 6.0.14-dfsg-1), ran sudo ...
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Wired internet connection keeps dropping on Ubuntu 18.04 VM
So basically I set up LAMP stack on my PC with Virtual Box and Ubuntu 18.04 VM. Configured everything and it was working just fine for like a month now until it just randomly started dropping ...
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How to setup Virtualbox Ubuntu VM for External Remote Connection
I made a Virtualbox VM and installed the latest version of Ubuntu desktop. I'd like to set it up so I have the VM running on my local machine at home, and be able to connect to it via RDP.
I setup ...
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Virtualbox ubuntu VM gets no IP on a wired connection, gets it on Wifi
I have Windows 10 Enterprise host running Oracle VirtualBox. I have 3 ubuntu (1604) VMs installed on them. They are all configured as a bridge network. When I use a wired LAN connection none of the ...
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Making Virtual Box work on a compiled kernel
I am trying to run a vm with virtual box and am getting the following error:
Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a ...
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Fortinet / VM connectivity issue
I have a Windows 10 NUC. I run Fortinet on it so that I can work on my company's LAN remotely. On this Windows 10 machine I run VirtualBox, and I use an Ubuntu 16.04 VM. I'm using the NAT setting ...
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VirtualBox error: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
I am having a problem with VirtualBox: it won't start at all. I've tried reinstalling it, reinstalling dkms, purging it and reinstalling... but the problem persists. It displays an ugly error:
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VirtualBox failed to open a session for the virtual machine Ubuntu
I have not been able to get VirtualBox to start up successfully.
I have made sure that hardware virtualization is enabled
but I keep getting this error:
Failed to open a session for the virtual ...
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How to do port forwarding between two guest virtual machines?
I'm trying to set up a lab environment with VirtualBox made up of two virtual machines, both of them Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver.
I want one of them to act like a server with Node.js and Express.
The ...
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Is it possible for multiple VMs (in Virtual Box) to use the same CPU core?
I have 16gb of RAM and an Intel quad core processor that supports virtualization.
The host OS is Windows 10 Pro, 64 bit.
I want to run several Ubuntu 16.04 x32 guests, each doing very little work. ...
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Virtual Box OS stuck with blank screen
I want to run Linux OS on my Windows machine as guest OS. To make it run, I have installed Oracle Virtual Box and Ubuntu ISO file. And I have configured it as follows:
Ubuntu version: ubuntu-18.04.2
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Ubuntu 18.04 Netplan routing to VM
I have an Ubuntu 18.04 server with Hetzner on which Virtualbox
is running Windows server '12.
The host has ip: 144.76.116.79
I've got an additional ip, 144.76.116.125, since I want all traffic ...
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Make IE11 calls from a VirtualBox VM look like a LOCALHOST call in the host on Linux
I've looked at this SO question and downloaded the VM for IE11 and VirtualBox. On the host, I call https://localhost:8081 to load the webpage from my local webpack dev server. Inside the VM, I tried ...
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Poor image quality in VirtualBox with Ubuntu VM running on Windows 10
I have an ASUS laptop running Windows 10.
I have Oracle VirtualBox with a Linux Ubuntu VM.
I've had no problems until this week when I started Ubuntu in VirtualBox
and everything visual (display of ...
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Connect to Oracle Database inside docker container residing on Oracle VirtualBox Xubuntu VM
I have the following setup:
Windows 10 Pro Host with VirtualBox installed.
On VirtualBox I have installed Xubuntu OS.
On Xubuntu OS I have installed docker and setup an Oracle19c database container....
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Where is libEGL.so in Virtualbox?
I'm running a Ubuntu 16.04 guest, but I can't seem to find libEGL.so anywhere. Is VirtualBox supposed to install EGL?
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Trouble mounting USB devices to Windows 10 VirtualBox VM
I am experiencing issues connecting USB devices to my Windows 10 VM on VirtualBox.
My host is a Dell Inspiron 15 laptop running
a fully up-to-date Kubuntu 19.0 (Disco Dingo).
I have also installed ...
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Ubuntu VM is responding very slow
I have installed Oracle VM Box in my windows 10 machine and loaded Ubuntu 18 as guest OS. But when I boot my VM box, the Ubuntu OS responding fast for few mins, then it slows down and taking too much ...
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VirtualBox: Ubuntu VM starts, but no further signs of life
My Ubuntu VM (16.04 Desktop) has become inaccessible and I have no idea why. The VM provides web services for me (and is actually the development side of the site) and is hosted in an Ubuntu 16.04 ...
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VirtualBox, Host: Ubuntu 18.04, Guest: Windows 10, resizing screen
I have just installed Windows 10 in a VirtualBox VM using Ubuntu 18.04 as a host OS.
I would like to resize the VM screen (in the VirtualBox window) so that it can fit the entire host's screen. How ...
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Run existing OS installation in a virtual machine
I'm running Ubuntu and Windows 10 (on different drive partitions) with dualboot on my computer.
Sometimes I would like to use a tool that is installed in Ubuntu, while I'm using Windows, without ...
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Why does my VirtualBox machine not have disk space when it is using a small portion of what I allotted it?
TL;DR: VirtualBox VM running Ubuntu doesn't seem to recognize virtual hard drive size. How to fix? FWIW, I used to run this same setup on VirtualBox 5.2 with Ubuntu 16.04 and MySQL 5.6 and never had ...
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Ubuntu running in VirtualBox fails to boot
I have been using VirtualBox to host an Ubuntu VM to work with Python. When starting, I set a size limit of 16 GB, but it ran out, so I tried to increase it. I accidentally made another virtual hard ...
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VirtualBox keyboard & mouse not working when installing Ubuntu
I'm trying to install Ubuntu on Oracle VirtualBox but when I get to the "Who are you?" page all keyboard and mouse input functionality seems to disappear - with exception of the buttons. I can't get ...
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Fail to resize Ubuntu VDI, using virtualbox on windows7
I am trying to resize storage of my Ubuntu on Windows 7 with VirtualBox. The current storage configuration is dynamic 10 GB
Command used:
.\VBoxManage modifyhd "C:\Users\Administrator\VirtualBox VMs\...
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Ubuntu Guest on Windows 10 host, How to get maximum performance from Guest?
I am in situations where I have Windows 10 as the main OS and I can't remove it or dual boot it. I had an Ubuntu 18.04 running in a virtualbox and I am using that for almost everything. Since its a vm,...
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Horrid stuttering with a Virtual Machine
I am using Ubuntu and VirtualBox and making a virtual machine with windows 10. When watching a video the audio was horrid. It sounded like it was stuttering and slowed down. So i checked with playing ...
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Virtual box VM max resolution 1600x1200
I am completely new to virtual machines and just set up a virtual Windows 10 with virtual machine on my ubuntu desktop. The problem is that my monitor is 1920x1080, but the max resolution in the ...
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Is there a special process for creating a bridged interface on an Oracle VirtualBox VM?
Using different directions found online from start to finish, I have not been able to create a bridge interface on an Ubuntu Linux VM hosted by Oracle VirtualBox. (I am using Ubuntu 18.04 with no GUI ...
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No host only interface in VM
I am trying to configure a "Host only" interface, but it is not working.
What works:
I am able to create a host only interface vboxnet0
I am able to enable one interface in my VM configuration to ...
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VMWare graphics performance much worse than Virtualbox
I just benchmarked both Virtualbox and VMWare running Ubuntu 18.04 guest on Windows 10 host. Benchmark was using hardinfo. Both had the same system configuration, 4 CPU cores, 2GB RAM, 20GB disk, 3D ...
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GuestAdditions seems to be installed (6.0.2) correctly, but not running
after upgrading VirtualBox to V.6.0.2, Vagrant V2.2.3 and homestead to release 8.0.0 each time I run vagrant up I get:
GuestAdditions seems to be installed (6.0.2) correctly, but not running
I ...
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How can I connect two Ubuntu VMs so that I can log in with the same user on both of them?
I'm not sure as to how I have to approach the task since I can't find any explanation to it on the internet. Both VMs are running with Ubuntu ver. 18.04 and I'm using Virtualbox.
Thanks in advance.
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Unable to connect CentOS VM x86 machine to the internet
I have 2 VMs created under Virtual Box,
One - CentOS VM x86 machine
Two - Ubuntu VM x86 machine.
Both have the same Network configuration. However, i am able to access internet under Ubuntu VM and ...
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Use host CUDA from VirtualBox?
Problem
I would like to use my host dGPU to train some neural networks using its CUDA cores via my Ubuntu 16.04 guest in Oracle VM VirtualBox version 5.2.22. Would it be possible to do this?
Host ...
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Ubuntu VM lose wifi internet from Windows 10 host after a while and
Say I work from one WiFi for the day - after a while Ubuntu VM on Win10 host still shows an IP address but no internet anymore - it had internet when I started the day. Win10 has no internet issue.
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Docker Containers in a ubuntu server vm have no access to shared folders
I was setting up a media server in ubuntu server running inside a vm. I installed docker in it and set up everything from sonarr, radarr, torrent client,plex, etc and after installing everything i ...
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Cannot access server on Virtual Box from the host?
I am running Ubuntu 18.04.1 in Virtual Box on MacOS. I setup a localhost server in Ubuntu using Python Flask running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ I am trying to access this localhost from my Mac, but can’...
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Ubuntu 18.04.1 + VirtualBox 5.2.22 - VM hangs/freezes when I press printscreen button
I am running Virtualbox 5.2.22 on Windows 10. The VM is a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04.1 with 6 processors, 8GB of RAM, and 128 Video RAM. Guest additions is installed. If I press the printscreen ...
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VirtualBox Windows 10 with Ubuntu guest is too slow without 3d Acceleration
I have been using virtualbox in windows 10 with ubuntu guest for a while, the virtual machine options had enabled '3d acceleration' and everything was working fine. Nevertheless the screenshots that I ...
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VirtualBox: NIC Throughput vs Advertised Link Speed?
As part of a networking project I have used VirtualBox 5.2.20 to model a "mini-Internet" with seven VMs. My host machine is running Linux Mint 18.3, all of the guests are running Ubuntu Server 16.04 ...
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Configuring a network on Ubuntu virtual machines
I want to set up two Ubuntu virtual machines. One of them needs to be connected to a router with a WEP encryption. I have the router set up and have one VM connected to it.
My question is:
How can I ...
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Display resolution of Ubuntu guest in VirtualBox is too high
I feeling I have an opposite effect than most other people that install Ubuntu as a guest OS because I saw many were having trouble with the window being to small after the installation/restart. After ...
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Connectiong two virtual box vms to interface
I am new to virtua box I am running virtual box in ubuntu 16.04 i have created two vms vm1 and vm2 now my host on which virtual box is installed is connected to wlp2s0 now i want to connect my vm1 ...
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VirtualBox Windows 10 Host and Ubuntu 12 Guest networking not working
I was running this very same guest on windows 7 till last week, now i upgraded to windows 10 and the guest is not able to connect anymore.
VBOX version 5.2.18
The weird thing is that i have another ...
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How to compact / shrink a Dynamically Allocated virtual box vmdk file on a ubuntu guest after deleting a bunch of files?
I have a very old virtual box with ubuntu 14 guest installed. Its currently taking up over 50GB and I just deletect 35GB of data on this virtualbox, but since the hard drive is Dynamically allocated ...
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I can't turn on virtualization to run Ubuntu in Virtual Box on my AMD-V machine
I set up Ubuntu in Virtual Box (the version 4.3.28.0, I uploaded it older, because new version makes mistakes), and when I start it, it emit this error:
Failed to open a session for the virtual ...
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Join VM to Windows Domain using VPN
This seems basic and common but I cannot find anything helping me with this, surprisingly.
Question: anything special to do in a VM to enable VPN connection in the guest?
Context: I have a Windows10 ...