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Virtual Box - not filling entire screen
I am new to VirtualBox and am trying to set up an instance of Windows 7 64.
I have the virtual machine instance running with Windows 7 now installed, but it only fills up a small portion of my screen....
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What might cause "subst" to say "Invalid Parameter - D:"?
I have some virtual Windows-7 machines, referring to a D:-drive.
This D:-drive seems to be configured as a drive mapping, as can be seen in the result of the subst command:
Prompt>subst
D:\: => ...
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Why do I need Windows XP mode in Windows 7?
Tomorrow on 15th of July Microsoft is staring pre-order of Windows 7. I compared the three editions ("Which one is right for you?") for me.
The main difference is "Windows XP Mode" in Professional and ...
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Can I run multiple virtual machines at once?
I would like to run three virtual machines on my windows 7 computer. I would like them all to be windows 7 virtual machines. I see that there are many ways to make a virtual machine, the easiest I ...
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Create disk image of C drive and run on VMware virtual machine
I run Windows XP SP3 Pro on my desktop PC and I want to create an image of its C Drive. I'd like to run this image in a virtual machine on VMware.
How can I do this?
Install XP in VMware first – ...
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Is there a way to get VirtualBox to work with an Intel 64 bit processor?
I am creating a VMWare VM from my old laptop. Since VMWare Player is not free for me to use at work, I am looking at converting the resulting VM to a VirtualBox VM. (There are several tutorials on ...
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Windows 7 virtual machine on Windows 10, unsafe?
If you set up a virtual machine with Windows 7 running, on a Windows 10 host, and do not connect the VM to the Internet, is there still a security risk?
More specifically, if I have 2 networks ...
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Install a virtual Windows 7 on Windows XP machine - is it possible?
Is it possible to achieve? I have a Pentium Dual-Core CPU E5200 2.50GHz, 2.00 Gb RAM computer with Windows XP installed. Most of the information on virtual machines I found deals with Windows XP being ...
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Is it possible to create a Windows 7 virtual machine on Ubuntu Server without GUI?
I have a Ubuntu Server 12.04 server without GUI. Would it be possible to install Windows 7 (with GUI) as a virtual machine on the server? I want to use Windows 7 with remote desktop on my phone.
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Cannot Enable Integration Features on VPC on a Domain
Hi I'm running virtual Windows Vista within Windows 7 Pro. In order to do copy and paste between the two OS's I click Tools/Enable Integration Features in the VPC. It brings up a login box with: ...
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Easiest (free) way to get VM hosting Windows OS, on Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
I'm a software developer and my workstation is running Win7 Ultimate, 64bit. I want to run a virtual PC on which I can deploy and run the web-software I create, as a virtual web-server PC. I want the ...
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How can I run a VM of Windows Server 2003 on Windows 7?
I want to create a VM of Windows Server 2003 on my Windows 7 laptop, in order to run SAP-BI applications on Windows 7. The total size of Server 2003 is 260GB. (SAP-BI is installed in Server 2003)
How ...
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VirtualBox VM Rootkit Infection
What is the risk of having a host machine infected if a VirtualBox VM running on the host gets infected? Let's assume both run Windows 7.
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VT-x is being used by another hypervisor
I am trying to set up a virtual machine using Virtualbox:
Host OS: Windows 7
Guest OS: Ubuntu
Virtualbox version: 5.0.10
Processor: Core i7-5600U
But when I try to start the VM I got the following ...
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Dual-Boot vs. VM for Windows 7
From reading older questions, it seems that running a second OS in a VM is the preferred way to run different instances of an OS. However, wouldn't an OS running inside a VM run slower, since the ...
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Legal Windows for Virtual Machine
I want to have a free and legal Windows OS on a virtual machine such as VMware, virtual box etc. It seems that Windows “Starter Edition” fits the needs. Can someone confirm this? If it is not, then ...
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Virtual Machine to run 32-bit Windows?
I'm trying to run an old game, and oddly the expansion packs to the game only install on 32-bit Windows. I have 64-bit Windows 7, and it won't even let me attempt to install them. If I install a 32-...
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Is it possible to migrate a Windows installation to another machine or Parallels?
I've got a Windows 7 machine that's about to die and I want to transfer my data to another machine, or possibly to a disk image that I would then run inside of Parallels on my Mac. I could of course ...
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Is it safe to install Windows 7 in a VM and move to physical later?
I'd like to install a fresh copy of Windows 7. My plan would be to install the system in a VMWare Workstation virtual machine, take a few days to configure it nicely and install everything, and ...
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Windows 7 - Virtual PC or Workstation 7.1 - Not working 4 me
I have a Windows 7 Ultimate - 64 bit Operating System
When I'm trying to create virtual machine Windows Server 2008 64 bit I'm getting the same error neither with Virtual PC or Workstation 7.1
Error: ...
George
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Can't see NAS in Virtual Machine on Windows 7
I have windows 7 64 bit with Windows Virtual Machine software installed.
On the virtual machine you cannot see the the network and in particular the QNAP nas connected but in win 7 you can.
What can I ...
Iang
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Replace "CopyFileFromGuestToHost" and "runProgramInGuest" by xcopy and simple execution, what can I expect
My company is working with virtual machines. Those are managed, using a central host who connects to different virtual machines (using ESX virtual machines handling technology).
One of those virtual ...
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Swapping from Windows 7 to Ubuntu (host) and Windows 7 VM on same hardware
This may have been asked elsewhere, but it always seems to be unclear about whether they are staying on exactly the same physical hardware.
I have Windows 7 32bit with lots of programs installed (inc ...
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"Borrow Computer"/"Log in to VM" button on Windows Login screen?
My last two workplaces have had a button on the Windows 7 login screen marked "Borrow" or "Use Another Computer". This button allows any user to connect either to their own desktop machine, or to a ...
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PC to virtual machine [duplicate]
Currently I'm moving from old PC to new one. I have windows 7 installed. I'm planning throw away old PC, but before that I would like to have possibility to run old PC operating system just in case I ...
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Exposing an USB device directly to a Virtualbox guest
I have an virtualBox VM with a windows guest system (Windows XP 32Bit). The Host is also a Windows (Windows 7 64Bit).
Normally I just want to use known usb devices (which are known by my host and ...
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Error with VMware Player on Windows 7 - Virtual system won´t start
my OS is Windows 7 64bit and I have installed VMware Workstation Player 12.1.1-3770994.
I never had problems with it, every time I started the virtual machine it worked without any problems.
But since ...
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How do I get started with Virtual PC on Windows 7 Pro?
I would like to set up a Virtual PC VM on my Windows 7 Pro host machine. On the Microsoft VPC page I chose to download only VPC, not the damned XP Mode poster child, and I got to download the file ...
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VMware Windows 7 corrupted, need to recover my files
I installed a Windows 7 operating system on VMware virtual machine and my host computer is running Windows 10. My Windows 7 operating system of virtual machine is corrupted and I need to recover some ...
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Non-persistence in Windows 7
I have a spare Windows 7 license, and would like to set up a small VM for use as a Jenkins slave.
As things can go wrong on build systems, and I'd like to avoid cruft building up in the system, I'd ...
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