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VirtualBox: How to shut down Virtual Machine
I am not sure how to shut down my virtual machine (Ubuntu 32 bit). When I press the drop down menu labeled "Machine" and press close, it gives me three options. Should I use any of these? When I used ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 won't go full screen on Virtualbox with macOS as host
I've just installed ubuntu desktop 20.04 on my virtual box on macOS 10.14.6
I installed the guest additions too and restarted.
If I try resizing the window to be smaller it seems that the ...
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Can't drag-drop from Windows 10 to Ubuntu VirtualBox machine
Trying to drag/drop (or copy/paste) files or folders from my Windows-10 (x86-64) machine to an ubuntu VirtualBox machine. It does not work.
My VirtualBox version is: 5.1.26 r117224. Guest machine is ...
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I'm wondering how a virtual machine saves files on hardware
I recently used a virtual machine (Oracle vm virtualbox) to use Ubuntu on my Windows laptop. I wrote helloworld.c for testing my new OS, and saved it. I wondered "Can I see the file's directory (...
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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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Virtualbox shared folders - mounting failed
I've installed Ubuntu 10.04 as a Virtualbox VM. I'd like to make my entire C drive an always-enabled shared folder under ~ (/home/). I've seen this tutorial but I'm unsure of the differences between ...
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Virtual Box - how to use a custom resolution in a Windows 7 VM
I'm running a Windows 7 VM in Virtual Box on an ubuntu laptop with a 1600x900 resolution. All of the display modes in the VM are "4x3" scale, going up to 1600x1200: i'd actually like a custom display ...
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Run both Docker and Virtualbox on Linux? Or Docker within VM?
Short version: I think I messed up wanting to run both Docker and Virtualbox on Linux at the same time and I'm thinking I should I migrate my docker setup into its own virtual machine?
System Summary (...
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VirtualBox Not Recognizing 64 Bit CPU
I recently had to uninstall VirtualBox and reinstall it for various reasons that are unrelated to the purpose of this post. After reinstalling it, I noticed that the option to create a 64 bit virtual ...
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Creating Ubuntu VM with VirtualBox
I am trying to set up my very first virtual machine via VirtualBox (4.1.8). I created the machine and selected Linux → Ubuntu inside VBox's installation wizard. I then went to run the machine for the ...
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Unable to do Port Forwarding in Virtual Box
I'm using Mac OS X 10.6. I have installed Virtual Box 4.1.0 in it. My Guest OS is Ubuntu Server 11.04. I have added a rule in Port Forwarding in Virtual Box ->
"guestssh" TCP 127.0.1.1 8080 127.0.0....
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Oracle VirtualBox - Cursor Lost in Top Left Corner
In my Oracle VirtualBox 6.1, regularly, a square around 15cm x 15cm in the left top corner doesn't take the mouse click anymore (left and right). I'm not sure what causes it. It comes and goes at ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 VirtualBox on powerful W7 quite slow
I own a Thinkpad T420s with 8GB RAM, 160 GB SSD and a quite fast i7 processor. Summa summarum a very fast computer that works perfectly. Now, I am not very impressed by the performance of my Ubuntu 12....
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Mount a .vdi in Windows 7 as a hard drive?
On my Windows 7 machine (host), I have a virtual machine (VirtualBox) running Ubuntu 10.10 - inside the .vdi, I have some large files that I would like to extract - one of them being a standalone .iso ...
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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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