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Windows Datacenter 2016 GUI edition - Can not add my other windows 2016 servers to the domain. Error DNS name not found?
I am in a Windows Server Administration class.I am using virtualbox. I'm having trouble adding users to my domain. I have two networks, a NAT network and an internal network. Both are configured ...
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questions about windows licencing
I'd like to switch to Linux (Ubuntu) as my primary OS, but I'd like to keep Windows as virtual machine for some tasks. Curently I have activated Windows on bare metal.
I know that I need new licence ...
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BSOD (SYSTEM SERVICE EXCEPTION) on Win 10 when using VMware or Virtual Box
I've been working with VMware on Windows 10 for several years now. But now there's the problem that I get a BlueScreen when I start "Windows XP 64 Bit". But Android-VMs (Nox Player) and Linux-VMs ...
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How to route one VM traffic through another VM (Windows Hyper-V)?
I have the following setup that I need to run in my lab. I have one VM1 that has both external and private connections, and the other VM2 that only has private connections so VM2 cannot talk to ...
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Windows 2000 VirtualBox VM doesn't work properly above 32MB video memory?
I have VirtualBox 6.0.8 on a Windows 10 x64 host. I created a new Windows 2000 x86 VM, with Guest Additions installed. Video memory is maxed out at 128MB. I tried to increase the VM's resolution to ...
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VMWare Workstation 14 Pro on Windows 10
At work they just updated my Windows 7 to Windows 10. VMWare Workstations Pro 14 was installed by them over Windows 7. I had a couple VMs that worked fine.
After the update, VMWare would not start, ...
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Horrible VM performance on HDD
Currently I'm noticing a horrible performance when I put my VM's on my internal HDD. The HDD is split into 3 Partitions (D:, E:, F:) and have a maxiumum capacity of 500GB by 7200rpm.
File copy from ...
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Windows 10 Upgrade causes Oracle VM error - VT-x is not available
My ThinkPad went through a Windows 10 upgrade and since then my Oracle Virtual Machines are completely down. I get "VT-x is not available (VERR_VMX_NO_VMX)." error. OVM Version 5.2.30
Things that I ...
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Virtual Box Windows 10 VM, Make VM undetectable
So I've made a Windows 10 virtual machine in Virtual Box. I'm trying to make it so that it can't be detected that I'm actually running a vm, mainly by just a person looking through the device manager. ...
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Run existing OS installation in a virtual machine
I'm running Ubuntu and Windows 10 (on different drive partitions) with dualboot on my computer.
Sometimes I would like to use a tool that is installed in Ubuntu, while I'm using Windows, without ...
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How can I unequivocally check if I'm working on a virtual machine?
I have read several articles explaining how to modify the system parameters to simulate a physical machine. You can change a bit of everything up to the CPUID even if obtained through assembler code ...
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How to expand storage for vagrant box on Windows host
I'm trying to increase the storage space on my vagrant box from 18 GB to 50 GB. The vagrant box is running Ubuntu and the host is Windows 10. There are similar questions on this forum for expanding a ...
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Cloud hosted VM's that can connect to my company LAN [closed]
I am a Quality Assurance engineer, and I am not an expert in Networking. Currently, I have 4 Windows VMs running on a server on our local network. They communicate with each other using Selenium Grid ...
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Safe gaming, banking and development on the same machine
I'm looking for a way to keep a gaming pc and a work pc. Currently i have a quite powerful machine: i7, 32gb ram, 2x420gb ssd internal (and some other external ssd)
Basically the gaming pc will be ...
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Always boot into Windows when in VM
I have a laptop that is set up to dual-boot Windows and Manjaro using GRUB2 as my bootloader. However, sometimes I want to use Windows for a little bit without closing all of my apps in Manjaro, so I ...
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How to find out which application or service uses virtualization (AMD-V or VT-x) in Windows? [duplicate]
I am trying to run a virtual machine in VirtualBox, but it gives me the following error:
VBoxManage.exe: error: AMD-V is being used by another hypervisor. (VERR_SVM_IN_USE).
VBoxManage.exe: error: ...
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Hyper-V not able to start? Don't know what to do with the error message
I am using Windows 10 Education (Version 1709) and I just enabled Hyper-V and rebooted, then began by creating a new VM. This is the first time I've tried running a VM on my computer (had used them ...
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What VmWare VM is associated with a Process (pid) (on Windows Host)?
I run several VMs on a beefy windows host. Every now and then one of the VMs goes into CPU spin mode taking up 100% of the HOST CPU.
To get the HOST and other VMs to be usable I find the mis-...
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Windows Sandbox (clean slate desktop) alternative? [closed]
What I would want, is a way to somehow run a clean slate of Windows in a sort of a sandbox, so that I could install programs in it for demonstration/presentation purposes, but then when the sandbox is ...
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Reaching an aliased website in a virtual machine on windows
I'm running windows 10 with a virtual machine (vmware, running ubuntu) wherein the vmware is running a server on port 80. The issue is I have to test out various arrangements of subdomains (ie test....
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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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Executing a Batch file on a Azure Virtual Machine from outside the VM
I have an Azure VM running Windows 2016 Datacentre with a programme developed in R and RMarkdown. I can run the R script from the command line on the virtual machine (rather than from within the R/...
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Make bare Windows look like it's VM [closed]
Knowing that some malware protects itself by restricting malicious functionality in VMs, and also for testing, I'd like to fake this protection on bare hardware, with little or no overhead (so not ...
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Controll vms remotely
I'd like to manage my vm via ssh connection, for e.g. start vm in headless mode or just list available vms but i seems not to work.
When i issue command
VBoxManage startvm MyVM --type headless
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Wireless adapter not working after reassuming from sleep while running VM
When I reassume my computer from a sleep, I observe sometimes that my wireless adapter is not working. The network connections icon in the system tray on Windows says 'Not connected - No connections ...
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Virtial machine that feels native?
Is it possible to have a fully functional native OS desktop experience (Windows) on a virtual machine that doesn't feel like it's a guest OS? Kinda like Virtualbox but once it's loaded you can't tell ...
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Windows Virtual Machine from .VHD
I have virtualised a windows machine using "Disk2VHD" from microsoft sysinternals. I then used Windows virtual machine to create a VM from the .VHD file. I ensured the "Prepare for use in VM" box was ...
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Cannot Ping Or Remote Desktop into Hyper-V PC Via IP Address On Host
I have a bit of a bizarre problem. I have a Hyper-V VM and I cannot connect to it via IP address on the host computer.
I intend to use it as an SQL server to host a database for a website while I ...
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Using Virtualbox on a Windows host, how can I route all traffic from a specific guest through TOR without changes to the guest?
I have Virtualbox and TOR already installed on a Windows host. How can I have a virtual machine's network always go through TOR without installing TOR or configuring anything within the guest OS? ...
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Are Vagrant virtual machines (Virtualbox) safe from accidental shutdown/reboots?
Say your host machine got shutdown abruptly or somebody pressed the reboot button and your Vagrant VM is in a running state (e.g., not on halt or suspend state). Will they survive when the host ...
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Vbox mouse cursor disappear only in text editor of a guest OS [duplicate]
The problem is following: Suddenly the edit text mouse cursor disappear in guest OS text editors and text fields. Instead of Text Select cursor only few pixels are visible.
Issue related to windows ...
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Hyper-V Cannot be installed: Virtualization is disabled in the firmware
I have installed Windows 10 Education on a Macbook using Boot Camp Assistant. I have problem with running windows server using Hyper V, because I cannot select one of the options from window "Turn ...
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Can't make files hidden on shared folder Linux VirtualBox
I'm running Windows 10 Home (x64, not activated) in oracle VM Virtualbox on Linux Mint 19. I'm having trouble with a shared folder. On the host it is /media/Lukaka/WP30 and it is shared so on the ...
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What is the purpose of snapshots in virtualisation software?
I've recently started using virtualisation software more often, specifically VirtualBox, and the idea of snapshots confuses me.
I understand that they give the user the ability to revert a VM to a ...
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What is the difference between Windows 10 Virtual Desktop and a Virtual Machine
Microsoft announced the Windows 10 Virtual Desktop at the Ignite conference. From my understanding, this is hosted in Azure. My question is, what's the difference between Windows 10 Virtual Desktop ...
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Windows 10 virtualization on Ubuntu vs. Ubuntu virtualization on Windows 10
We need our Windows 10 app and our ubuntu app to both run on the same laptop, and communicate by sharing files (probably using Samba file interface between Windows and Ubuntu). There will be a lot of ...
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What kind of licensing would you need for a Windows VM? [closed]
Here is the scenario; I plan to have at least four Windows-based virtual machines running on a Linux host using VirtualBox on my network. My users will connect to their assigned virtual machine (...
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How to find out which app uses which Proxy?
So two things first:
I am not very well-versed in proxies and related topics and
my work environment is an absolute nightmare.
I have a windows Host machine with the proxy set up (however Chrome ...
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Does using NETSTAT command in VM host show connections from an active VM guest?
I understand this is a kind of dumb question.
EDIT: I mean, if you run NETSTAT in a OS which HOSTS a VM, will the command return the guest VM's connections?
The logic says that all connections ...
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Best way to setup Windows laptop for easy recovery [closed]
I'm a software developer and have lots of system configured aspects on my development Windows 10 laptop (SQL Server, IIS, IDEs, etc). Over the years, I've had several hardware failures and the ...
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Time among computers and servers are off
I'm trying to get all my computers time to sync.
I have a Windows Server 2012 with hyper-V. Running on the Hyper V is:
a VM DC - parent Hyper-V is part of DC's domain
a VM IIS server (workgroup)
I ...
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Join VM to Windows Domain using VPN
This seems basic and common but I cannot find anything helping me with this, surprisingly.
Question: anything special to do in a VM to enable VPN connection in the guest?
Context: I have a Windows10 ...
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Cannot fix random reoccurring permission issues in Windows 10 VM
I have started having major permission issues "out of the blue" on Windows 10 Home (10.0.16299 Build 16299). This is a virtual machine running in Parallels on macOS High Sierra.
Files or folders ...
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Can't Enable Hyper-V on Windows 10 Education laptop
I am trying to enable Hyper-V on my Windows 10 Education laptop. I have checked the Hyper-V option in Windows feature, but after rebooting, the option still not enabled (back to unticked). Many ...
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How to Restrict Windows software to specific directory?
Imagine I have an untrusted software which Do Not Want to access any directory except the one I specify (Restrict software access to an specific directory)
Is there a way other than (Virtual machine &...
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How can I create a VMWare virtual machine that boots an existing (EFI) Fedora installation?
I have a Fedora and Windows installation on the same disk, and have been trying to get VMWare Workstation Player in Windows to boot the Fedora partition, but for some reason the machine doesn't boot.
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Boot physically-installed Linux in VMware Workstation on Windows 10
I have a Windows 10 that I use daily, with VMware WS 14 installed on it. I also have another Ubuntu system installed on another hard drive on the same computer and it has been used only a few times.
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Can I remote into my machine from a VM that's running on my machine?
What would happen if I started a VM on my machine and remoted into my machine from the VM? I haven't tried this, because I'm scared of breaking the universe.
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Remote Windows Server virtual machine: always keep Desktop open (simulate RDP session)
We have got a Windows server 2012 VM running continuously. We log on to the machine via remote desktop.
Is there any possibility to always keep the Desktop open as if a user would be logged on via ...
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VMware Workstation and Hyper-V are not compatible [duplicate]
I installed VMworkstation on a fresh Windows 10 operating system. When I tried to create any machine I got the following error:
VMware Workstation and Hyper-V are not compatible. Remove the Hyper-V ...
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