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VGA recognition issue while trying to use old windows on a virtual machine
I installed Windows ME as a guest OS on a virtual machine (two different software: Microsoft VM 2007 & VMWare ver. 10.0) hosted by a 64-bit Windows 7 (Intel Core i5, 8.0 GiB RAM). Problem is that ...
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Can I pass through hard drives from Linux OS to Windows 10 VM and create storage spaces?
I have a Linux (Ubuntu 16.04) server and want to create a Windows 10 virtual machine instance with kvm as hypervisor and virtual manager as ui. Furthermore, I want to pass through 2 hard drives to the ...
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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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Possible to boot-up old Windows 7 drive on some VM?
I have a 8-9 year old Windows 7 system drive that I would like to boot into. I no longer have the hardware that the OS was running on so obviously booting this up on my latest desktop is out of the ...
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How to resize VirtualBox disk on Mac?
My VB disk size is 50GB. I'm running Win7 on it. The host is a Mac. I'd like to increase the size to 75GB. I run this command:
VBoxManage modifyhd --resize 75000 "/Users/me/VirtualBox VMs/Win7vb/...
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Can't activate Hyper-V on Windows 10
A few days ago I updated my Windows installation from "Windows 10 Home" to "Windows 10 Education", because I've got a free Key from my school. However, if I try to install the Windows Feature "Hyper-V"...
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How do I force VMWare to pause/suspend guest when host put to sleep?
I have a VMWare Fusion 8.5 virtual machine running Windows 10 (guest) running on macOS 10.11/El Capitan (host).
When the host goes to sleep — usually because I close the MacBook Pro's lid — the ...
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The extended attributes are inconsistent (Windows 10 VM)
My setup:
Solus installed with a Windows 10 VM
My problem:
Whenever I want to start an application I get the error message "The extended attributes are inconsistent".
Also when trying to shut down ...
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Invalid permission to use gpedit.msc
For some reason every time I try launching gpedit to get a VirtualMachine up and running I keep getting permission errors which to my knowledge should not appear.
I am running Windows 10 Pro, 64bit
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Windows 10 VM Licensing [duplicate]
I'm working as a consultant and would like to keep each client in a completely separate windows 10 VM (will use linux for some clients, but due to requirements in some of the clients toolchains / ...
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Is it possible to show the battery level of an RDP client inside the host?
I have a Windows 10 Pro VM that I often connect to from a Windows 10 laptop. I connect using vanilla Microsoft Remote Desktop Client. Because I full-screen the remote session so often, I sometimes don'...
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Running a vm inside a vm
I have a cloud VM from a commercial cloud VM company. This host VM is windows server 2008. I have installed vmware player on this host and I want to run an ubuntu vm in it. VMWare player shows an ...
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Why Hyper-V run Windows 10 VM as remote computer?
I downloaded Windows 10 free Virtual Machine from https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/, extracted the VHDX file and ran it Hyper-V in my host OS Windows 10 X64 Pro. I also ...
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How to resize VirtualBox volume disk with Microsoft Windows?
I have Apple Macbook (MAC) with 128G volume space.
I received Virtual Machine (VM) in Open Virtual Appliance file (OVA file) with size 25G. After import that file in VirtualBox that space grow to 50G....
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Running Windows 10 insdie Windows 10 Virtual machine
I create tutorial and video courses. There are times that I want to start off from scratch in a video that I am making to show how to install a particular piece of software.
But as I am working on my ...
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GitLab ssh User Access Rights
I'm running a version of GitLab that I installed last fall. Unfortunately I am unable to ascertain a version number. It is hosted on Ubuntu 1404 in a VM on a Win10 host. UPDATE: Looks to be rev 9.4....
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Get official Windows XP virtual machine for Hyper-V
There are many unofficial Windows XP ISO file in numerous of websites. So to create a Windows XP virtual machine, one has to download that ISO and make that virtual hard disk manually. Is there a way ...
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How convert IE Developer Windows VM to full version after buying a license?
I have been using the Windows ISO from https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/
I recently purchased a full license and I want to convert that to a full Windows instead of ...
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Is update to Windows 10 FCU frozen or just taking too long?
I have a VirtualBox VM with Windows 10 that I only use every few weeks. I checked for updates today, and among other things asked me to upgrade windows saying it would take a long time. I decided to ...
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How to recognize mounted media only in ubuntu VM in windows?
In many of schools in Turkey there is a virus and you can easily get just by plugging in a flash drive. It's like a joke virus but it's annoying. Anyway... linux is not affected by this virus so when ...
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Windows Server 2016 Standard - Downgrade rights for Server 2008 VM converted from physical machine
Greetings, first question asked here; if there's anything amiss, let me know and I'll get it straightened out.
I am in a circumstance that leads me to consider the following possibility, should it be ...
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Does a computer (even a virtual one) have a property which identifies it? [closed]
My firm wants to create license files, based on a unique identifier of the PC. Currently hostname and serial ID are used, but I know that simply copying a virtual machine also copies those parameters.
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RSA encryption calls hang on windows Virtual Machines
We moved to BouncyCastle FIPS version 1.0.1 and since then RSAKeyHelper hangs for extended periods of time in Windows VMs (stack below).
We had a similar issue in Linux that was solved by increasing ...
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Connect 2 Domain Controllers using VM VirtualBox on this same system
I want to set up Virtual Enviroment using Windows server 2012 R2. What i did.
Installed 2 Virtual Boxes of Windows Server 2012 R2
Promoted one to Domain Controller, installed AD DS, DNS
I' ve ...
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2 Win10 on same machine on different HDDs - can the other be started as a VM
I have a dualboot system where both OS (2 x Win10) are on different HDDs.
I would like to know if it is possible when I boot into the first OS that I can some how start the second OS as a VM, without ...
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Get curly brackets in Windows VM
I'm on a Mac and I use a Windows VM for c# programming. I'm not able to type curly brackets in Visual Studio or anywhere else in the VM.
Any ideas?
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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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Windows 10 license in VM (Hyper-V) won't activate
I have a Windows 10 pro license on my computer. This is the free upgrade from Windows 7 so everything is legit here. Then I decided to install Hyper-V and install Windows 10 on it. I do that, install ...
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How to config "ubuntu/trusty64" Vagrant box properly on Windows 10?
I know this question has been asked several times. But all answers on those questions haven't worked for me.
I'm trying to install a new virtual machine using VirtualBox 5.1.4 (VirtualBox-5.1.14-...
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How to have conveniently bootable snapshot recovery point on Windows?
I want to set up a computer, so that I can have, say, weekly backup of the whole OS & files. This way if part of the OS is corrupted by an encryption virus, I want an easy way to simply reboot to ...
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Smart Card Authentication Between VMware and Teradici
So, here's the rub:
I have a zero client and I'm using Teradici. I have a Windows 10 image. Starting with the zero client, I am able to log in and authenticate with my smartcard, pick my connection ...
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linux overlayfs shared to windows - any issues?
I have a situation similar to this question.
Someone gave me this idea: create a Linux VM and create overlayfs filesystems then share those to the Windows guest OS.
Besides the standard issue of "it'...
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Easily spinning Windows and Linux containers
I'm thinking about setting up a CI/CD infrastructure for my team.
Since the components we're developing are on-premise and should run a different OSs, I'm thinking on spinning up Windows & Linux ...
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Installed Windows 10 in a VirtualBox VM, is it possible to find the OEM product key? [duplicate]
I have an HP Z230 workstation which came with Windows 8.1 Pro downgraded to Windows 7 Pro preinstalled.
I have since replaced the harddrive and installed Ubuntu 16.04 on it.
I have also installed ...
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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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How to handle "Task Scheduler" warning: user "<computer_name>\<username>" was not logged on
Good morning,
I'm working on a Windows 10 virtual machine, where some scheduled tasks are defined. Yesterday I've been working with those, by doing the following (the action is the launching of a ...
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Can I use Linux as both a native system and as a Virtual Machine interchangeably?
This is part two of my previous question Ext4 (dm-crypt) vs NTFS (bitlocker) for a common partition. I'm copying over the relevant section below.
I currently have Windows 10 Pro installed on my ...
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Unable to disable Hyper-V in Windows 10
Hi I installed Docker for Windows which enabled Hyper-V on my windows 10 machine.
Unfortunately this caused Virtual Box to not work anymore, therefore I removed Docker again, but Hyper-V is still ...
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How can I swap primary and secondary display during an RDP session?
I have two displays on my desktop (Windows 10 Enterprise) and frequently connect to a VM (Windows 8 Pro) via remote desktop. I have checked "Use all my monitors for the remote session" so the display ...
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Is it possible to create my new Windows 7 install inside VirtualBox VM then migrate it onto my hard drive?
I need to reinstall windows 7 but I want to see if I can create the new install inside virtualbox and install some programs and throw my drivers in a folder, then boot ghost or something similar to ...
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How to see the settings of a Windows computer when the taskbar is inaccessible
From my PC, there is a remote connection to a PC in another country. That PC has access towards a virtual computer, which is connected to via VMWare software. As that virtual machine is part of the ...
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Possible to play 'split-screen' using Virtual Machine?
My question is, on either Windows 8 or Ubuntu 16.04, is it possible to 'isolate' a keyboard and mouse to a virtual machine, hence possibly creating a 'split-screen' experience across 2 monitors?
I ...
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How can I detect if I'm within a vm or not?
Time and again I've seen security programs where the description says "Please don't try to run this inside a VM, as the program will not be able to be started" or "The security program will say that ...
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How do I use Hyper-V to have multiple people using one computer?
This may not be exactly an original question, but I couldn't find any good answers to it.
I want to know how, using Hyper-V, I can have two desktops running with one keyboard controlling one, one ...
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Unable to restart windows server 2012 R2 VM . also task manager is not responding
I was working on visual studio professional 2012 inside my windows server 2012 R2. then I stop running the visual studio ,, where it hangs and stop responding. then I tried to open Task Manager to ...
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Domain controller on VMware
I have installed windows server 2008 r2, two clones of windows xp and one cent os on my vmware workstation 11.0.
I want windows server 2008 R2 to behave as an DC which has AD,DHCP & DNS from ...
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Win Key in VirtualBox Guest is also captured by Host
I have a fresh install of Windows 10 Home x64. This machine is used as a host for a VirtualBox VM (Ubuntu 16.04.1 x64).
All nice and good until I realized that when I press the win key on guest (...
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Error running regasm in Windows XP on Oracle VirtualBox
I'm trying to install an old application on 32-bit Windows XP. XP is a guest OS running on a Windows 10 x64 host OS via Oracle Virtual Box.
Part of the installation instructions are to install ...
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Setting up a pentest lab with windows xp and kali as guest on virtualbox only one way connections?
I have Kali linux 2016 and Windows XP installed as guest in VirtualBox. I followed an instructions on superuser for making the two guest talk to each other.
Now Windows XP is capable of pinging kali ...
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Does Family Safety record site visits on a virtualbox?
So my son has been seeing some very disturbing stuff lately. So I decided to setup family safety. But he uses his Ubuntu VM most of the time and I would like to know if the family safety can record ...
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