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Booting into a Virtual Machine from a physical installation
In Mac OSX, you can create a Boot Camp partition, install Windows on it, and then later by using Parallels you can boot into that OS virtually in OS X! Its awesome, I've been using it on my macbook.
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How can I increase the Hyper-V display resolution?
I just started experimenting with the Hyper-V of Windows 8 and installed Ubuntu on it. However when I launch it my screen resolution is small.
How can I scale Ubuntu to the resolution of my screen?
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Can't find the right Ubuntu Server ISO for VirtualBox
I have been trying all morning to find the right Ubuntu Server (12.04) ISO to use for installing an Ubuntu guest OS on my VBox VM.
Here are the relevant stats:
Host Machine: AMD 64-bit
Host OS: ...
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How can I connect to a web server running in a VM when the VM is in NAT mode?
I've got a development webserver on an Ubuntu box inside of VMWare Workstation 7.1.3. I'd like to run a web browser on a Windows machine (the host OS) for actually testing a web page I'm working on -- ...
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Used VBoxManage modifyhd --resize, actual size did not change
In continuation to Failure to resize a virtualbox volume
I used the following commands in order to increase the space available in my virtual machine (Ubuntu):
VBoxManage.exe clonehd "c:\users\a_b\...
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Ubuntu Server VM: copy paste?
I've installed Ubuntu Server under Virtualbox just to get a nice little shell. I've also installed the VirtualBox "Guest Additions" and set "Shared Clipboard: Bidirectional".
I still can't seem to ...
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How to configure static IP address for a Hyper-V VM (Ubuntu 19.10 Quick Create) to avoid updating ssh config after each reboot?
I'm using VS-Code remote development plugin to edit code on a hyper-v VM (which is a Ubuntu 19.10 - quick create) which is running on Windows 10 on my Laptop. The VM uses hyper-v's default switch for ...
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WSL2 connect to host without disabling the windows firewall
I simply want to connect from my WSL2 Ubuntu installation to my host windows on port 8529.
What I tried:
Disabled my public firewall. This works but is no option.
I added bash, wsl, and the ubuntu ...
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How to convert physical Ubuntu operating system into a virtual machine?
A while ago I turned my PC into dual boot with Windows and Ubuntu.
But my experience is, that I rarely boot into Ubuntu, so I wanted to make it available as virtual machine in Windows rather than as a ...
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No USB devices available in VirtualBox
Oracle VirtualBox is unable to list/filter the USB devices attached to my system. As a result, the guest OS is not able to see any USB device either.
This is my configuration:
Host: VirtualBox 5.0.0 ...
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Is it possible to "virtualize" an existing PC?
I'm running Ubuntu Desktop 12.04, and I was wondering if it was possible to somehow take my whole filesystem (everything under /) and create an ISO from it. Then, perhaps, use that ISO as the file ...
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How can virtual machines consume so little RAM on the physical host machine?
I'm running VirtualBox on a Windows XP machine with 2GB RAM. I've created a virtual Ubuntu machine and allocated it a base memory of 750MB.
Just to put it to a test, I ran 20 things at once on the ...
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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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Virtual Box ssh not working on Virtual Box Ubuntu machine
I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed, and 12.04 Server set up in my virtual machine.
My VM has internet access, and I can ping it from my host.
ping symfony.dev # points to 192.168.56.101, and successful ...
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How can I cause a VirtualBox VM (running Ubuntu) to run a command upon resuming its state?
I am running a few Ubuntu VMs on a MacBook Pro host.
Whenever I pause a VM or save its state to disk, the next time I restart it, the system clock goes out of sync.
Is there a way for the VM to know ...
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How do I get the maximum resolution on Ubuntu in Microsoft Virtual PC?
I've spent way too much time on this than I care to admit; I'm new in the Linux world, and I installed Ubuntu 9.04 on a new virtual machine. My problem is getting the screen resolution I would like - ...
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Virtualbox: Raw linux partition not booting
I have a dual-boot laptop with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. I am trying to boot the ubuntu partition from windows using Virtualbox. I have successfully created the .vmdk, and created the virtual ...
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How can I mount internal ext4 drive as storage for Linux VirtualBox with Windows 10 host?
I have a Windows 10 host PC and a Linux Mint 18.2 virtual machine under Oracle VM VirtualBox (V 5.1.26r). The Windows OS and VirtualBox run from the same hard drive, and I would like to extend the ...
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How do I setup a working Wifi/Internet connection on Windows 10 hyper-v?
I have set up a Ubuntu 18.04 instance in Hyper-V.
But I don't have any internet connection withing my VM.
I am working on a laptop, connected with Wifi.
I have tried the following.
Created an ...
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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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Setting Hostname as IP on Linux for Hadoop VM
How can I have an Ubuntu server VM set /etc/hostname/ to the value fo the VM's assigned IP address automatically on startup?
I'm creating an Ubuntu server VM image to run Hadoop. When a client ...
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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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Virtualization software for a Mac
On my PC running Windows 7 I use VMware Player to run Ubuntu in a virtual machine.
What would I use in my MacBook Pro to run Ubuntu? What about for running Windows?
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Not able to mount/install vmware tools
I'm using the vmware player 6. I installed Mint 15 Olivia (MATE 64bit), everything is fine...except that I cannot install vmware tools.
When I start the vm and click im vmware menu: player/manage/...
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How do i set up shared folders in virtual box (windows 7 host, Ubuntu guest)?
I have windows 7 (host), virtual box, and BioLinux6 (a varient of Ubuntu) as the guest OS.
how can i set up the shared folders to be usable for read and write in both OS without having to re-mount ...
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Can I run a 32bit version of Windows XP in a Virtual Machine, on a 64bit machine running Ubuntu (64bit)
I believe my title is enough..
I have a 64bit Computer running Ubuntu (64bit). Can I run a 32bit version of Windows XP in a Virtual Machine (VirtualBox)?
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Linux Virtual Machine for Windows 7 that will run Keryx?
I'm having a problem getting packages onto a Linux computer that doesn't have an internet connection. The accepted answer here suggests Keryx, which needs a Linux computer with internet to get ...
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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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Can a physical partition with Windows XP be directly used for booting a Virtual Machine? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Booting into a Virtual Machine from a physical installation
(there are a lot of similar questions but I did not find one which seems to fit my scenario):
I have a PC with
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How to make Ubuntu VM in VirtualBox accessible from the internet?
I'm trying to set up an Ubuntu server in VirtualBox.
The host is Windows 7 x64.
The guest is Ubuntu 11.10 x64.
I want to make this server accessible from the internet. How can I do it?
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