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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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