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Virtual Box virtual machine guest OS screen is not resizing in Windows 10

I have guest additions installed on my Virtual Box, so that the screen is a decent size. When I start Virtual Box, the screen resizes properly. I am running Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), the guest OS ...
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Installing Windows 10 via VM, "can't find drivers" error

I'm trying to install Windows 10 to a hard drive via a virtual machine (KVM) and I'm having a problem with it complaining about not being able to find drivers (despite the fact that they're part of ...
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Error Doing Sysprep with Generalize for Windows 10 Enterprise VM inside hyper-v on Windows 2008R2

Doing a sysprep on a brand new Windows 10 Enterprise RTM machine on Hyper-V 2012R2 works fine, however if you create a brand new Windows 10 VM on Hyper-V 2008R2, go into audit mode and immediately try ...
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Can I replace my Asus Windows 10 with Debian and run the Windows in a virtual machine?

I have an Asus laptop with Windows 10 on it and I want to put Debian on it. Is it possible to save my copy of Windows 10 (it came with the laptop) and make it a virtual machine on the same machine ...
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VirtualBox no acceleration on Windows 10 host

After upgrading my host OS to Windows 10, I have noticed some problems with my guests so I looked around the settings and noticed that the number of CPUs and acceleration options are greyed out.. I ...
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Windows 7 or Windows 10 as Virtual Machine guest for best performance? [closed]

I'm planning on creating few virtual machines. Each machine is hosted locally on programmers work station in Hyper-V. I would like to know which operating system (Windows 7 or Windows 10) will have ...
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Window 10 Loads "Please Wait" Indefinitely

After 4 weeks of normal operation, I restarted a Windows 10 Pro 64bit virtual machine tonight, and it has now been loading the Please Wait screen for 8 hours. Because it is a virtual machine, I can ...
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Error while connecting to USB device in VMWare Player after update to Windows 10

I have a VMWare Player version 6.0.0 installed on my machine since when I was using Windows 7 x64. Some time ago I updated the later to Windows 10 and when I started my Linux Ubuntu Gnome with VMWare, ...
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Windows 10 Auto-Activation on Virtual Machines

The Windows 10 auto-activation system is quite nice: you no longer need to type in serial numbers to re-install the OS on the same machine - the machine's identity is used to activate it. When doing ...
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seting up some windows10 pro kiosks?

I have a few windows 10 PCs for student use. Previously, I had windows XP installed where I was using deepfreeze. Basically, students could use the pc, but if they encountered malicious software, ...
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Cannot mount or move Virtual Hard Disk .vhdx file

I created a .vhdx file using disk2vhd from sysinternals, but I'm unable to use it. The virtual machine in Hyper-V won't start. I can't mount it either. I t gives me the following error even though I ...
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Does Windows 10 have new features that improve performance as a guest OS in a VM?

Are there any features that were added to Windows 10 that directly improve performance (and possibly interoperability) when run as a guest in a virtual machine? If so, are these features enabled by ...
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Windows 10 and Boot Camp drivers

6th August 2015, Windows 10 has launched quite well. However, there are some people eying the new OS wit little concerns. Mine is: Will Windows 10 work on a Mac - and, that means with a few "...
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Oracle VirtualBox - Unable to update to Windows 10

I'm using Oracle VirtualBox 5 and my virtual Windows offered an Update to Windows 10 today, but it stops saying: VirtualBox Graphics Adapter The display manufacturer hasn't made your display ...
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Using Windows 10 in a virtual machine. Can it be done?

I am currently running 8.1. I'd like to try out Windows 10 and if I like it upgrade. If not, I'll keep running as I am. I've never used a virtual machine before: can Window 10 be used from a virtual ...
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