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Is there a way to zerofill the page file once for VM compaction?
I know it's not good practice to completely disable the page file even with seemingly sufficient amounts of RAM. I have a number of Windows VMs that naturally have a page file enabled at the default ...
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How to use the Fedora 22 Cloud RAW (.raw) image on VirtualBox
I've downloaded the RAW image of Fedora 22 Cloud to use/install on my VirtualBox installation under Windows but just don't know how to use it. I understand that it may be a dd copy of a filesystem but ...
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Can I inherit iptable rules on/under windows?
Don't really want to purchase a VPS just to test some iptables stuff for my gameserver. Was curious if it's possible to load up debian on vmware player and install nginx, nodejs, mysql, etc (which is ...
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Can i install Hyper-v on a Virtual Machine with Windows Server 2008 or 2012?
I need to install Hyper-V on a Virtual Machine to have different OS to try my programs.My Virtual Machine is Windows Server 2008 R2 but if i need to i could change it to 2012.Could you explane it ...
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Error when starting VirtualBox (Unable to load R3 module)
I'm aware this question has already been asked, but the answer points to a website that is currently down and is relevant to a VirtualBox version that's old and irrelevant to my version/problem. I'm ...
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Is it safe to install two different VirtualBox Guest Additions at the same time?
I was wondering if it is safe to install both Windows and Linux versions of VirtualBox Guest Additions? I searched around in google but couldn't find an answer.
I need to make a vbox image that ...
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Is there a way to open a folder in Mac with Windows Explorer in the virtual machine under VMware Fusion?
I have installed Windows 7 in my Mac with VMware Fusion. When I want to open a folder in Mac that is shared with the virtual machine in Windows Explorer, I usually launch Windows Explorer in the ...
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How to take advantage of USB3.0 speed for VHD of Hyper-V VM
i created a Hyper-V VM which has it's vhd on a external usb3.0 disk. But the vhd works way too slow. Normally i see around 98Mb/s read/write speed from the hdd if i use it from my main OS. But it is ...
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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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How can I try out different things on my computer and restore it to its previous condition easily & gracefully?
I’m starting to attend Hackathons and I'm in great need of a way to either completely restore my PC to a previous point in time, or deploy something that allows me to test out different things on my ...
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PXE TFTP Permission Denied
I have a windows server 2003 VM and since Virtualbox supports NAT networking and has the Intel PXE firmware, id like to test it out and maybe use it between two real machines in the future.
I have ...
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VMware Player cannot start a suspended VM from an SMB shared drive, says "Failed to lock the file"
I have a VMware Player VM located in a remote shared folder that resides on a Linux server. On the server side I have set up my file access permissions to the user ID used to open the shared folder, ...
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Oracle Virtual Box current version no option for Win8.1
I'm trying to install the Win10 64Bit technical preview in VirtualBox VM, but I keep getting errors. While digging into this I found online many suggestions to set the Windows version of the VM to "...
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Not able to install Windows 10 on oracle virtual box
I have installed ORACLE virtual box in Windows 7 machine and created a VM for windows10 technical preview with the following settings:
Guest:
iso: Windows10_TechnicalPreview_x64_EN-US_9926
Machine ...
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Compare two instances of Windows based on their state (Hashing)
I don't know how to better ask this but let me give an example. Suppose that I install a Windows 8 and do some updates, install some software, and copy some files.
Can I now get a hash code for the ...
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AntiVirus for OSX running parallels
I'm using OS X 10.10.1 on my Mac. I use Parallels Desktop 10 and VMware Fusion 7.1. I do use windows a lot on Parallels and Fusion (Several Virtual machines). Windows 8.1,7 and XP. I've installed ...
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Free Windows Virtual Machine Images?
I came across this tool called vagrant up and in the documentation it points to a list of freely available virtual machine images which includes windows. Does that mean that we can run windows for ...
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VirtualBox USB Support, USB Drive is NOT working, detected or recognized
I'm using latest stable version of Oracle VM VirtualBox with VirtualBox Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack on CentOS Linux release 7.0.1406 (Core) (Linux 3.10.0).
My Virtual Machine's Operating ...
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Execute command on linux virtual machine (or server) from windows commandline
I usually use software on a windows machine, but now need to call one commandline executable that I only have a Linux version of. I installed a linux virtual machine, but I would like to be able to ...
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How can I start a 256 color game on a Virtual Machine with Win XP?
(Note: I am from Germany and have my system on german language, so if i my translations of the Buttons and stuff i get on screen seem strange to you pls let me know)
I wanted to play a old pc game of ...
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How to connect my Hyper-V VM to a USB tablet (or device in general)?
This question might look like a duplicate but I checked and actually this should not be the case. Here I want to be able to connect a USB device (not a hard drive, but a tablet, a phone or an mp3 ...
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Where is VirtualBox's virtual hard disks repository?
A colleague shared a VirtualBox VM with me. When double clicking the VDI file, VirtualBox opens but I get a few errors (the errors were related to incorrect paths and UUIDs in the VBOX file). So I had ...
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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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Installing the same copy of windows on multiple VMs on the same Mac - licensing issues?
I have a single license for Windows 8, which I installed within Parallels. I wondered if I am allowed to clone this VM, or create another using the same key, on the same Mac? I think cloning would ...
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Is it possible to detach application windows out a VM?
I have a feeling the answer is no, but wanted to ask anyhow for confirmation.
Is there any VM software for windows that would allow the application windows to be detached from the VM, similar to what ...
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How to share VPN established in VMware guest VM with host
Is there a way to share a VPN connection which is established in a VMware guest running Windows 7 with the host running Ubuntu 14.04?
I tried NAT and Bridge, but I cannot seem to access VPN endpoints ...
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Reenabling Confirmation Dialog for Turning Off Hyper-V VM
Normally when you turn off a Hyper-V VM (as opposed to shutting it down), a confirmation dialog appears. This is to prevent you from accidentally switching a machine off. However, for some testing ...
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Install an application on Guest OS in Virtual Box
I'm very new to Visualization. In my workstation I don't have admin rights. I just wanted to install SQL Server 2008R2. Fortunately I have Virtual Box installed. So I installed Windows Server 2008 as ...
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How to secure a compromised virtual machine
I would like to run Windows in a virtual machine on my linux box. However, there is some concern from others on the same physical network that if the Windows box is compromised then they will ...
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How to create unified, virtualized, triple boot system (Windows, Mac, Linux)
I have a new desktop and I don't want to compromise by not using Linux, Mac OS X and Windows--often simultaneously.
My ideal experience would be to be able to virtualize two OS's in the other OS and ...
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Virtualbox host key not working, can't get out of scale mode
I have up to date version of Virtual Box running on Windows 8.1. The host key isn't responding. Changing the host key in Preferences > Input dozens of times did nothing to resolve the issue. The issue ...
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Does Virtualbox support DMG files on non-Mac OSes?
I'm trying to use a DMG as disc drive for a VirtualBox virtual machine, and I'm greeted by this very unpleasant surprise :
This reads :
Error opening optical disc file C:\Users...
Could not ...
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How to virtualize windows already installed on the hard disk in Ubuntu?
I have a hd with windows and Ubuntu installed in dual boot, I'm wanting to virtualize the installation of windows in ubuntu. Is it possible?
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Sharing virtualmachines between windows and linux hosts. What filesystem do I need?
In my current setup I'm using both Windows and Linux hosts, I've a bunch of VM in a partition and I need to use and access them from either hosts.
I've tested a couple of filesystems with very poor ...
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making a PCI soundcard work inside a Parallels Desktop virtual machine
im running Windows 8.1 inside Parallels Desktop 9 in Mavericks (mac)
I have an ASUS Xonar Essence STX soundcard (PCI-Express) connected, is there any hope of making it work inside the windows virtual ...
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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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How to use Virtual Box with a Disk image created with Norton Ghost?
I was given a file with "sv2i" extension and a couple of "v2i" files. According to my search, it is a disk image created with Norton Ghost. I converted the sv2i file to a vmdk file, which apparently ...
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Can I provide a virtual Windows environment for my users?
I want to provide an environment where users are free to install and break whatever on their accounts without disrupting the experience of other users on the computer. Since it's in a home environment,...
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Windows 8.1- Hyper-V won't network with Ubuntu 14.04 VM
Well, I'm officially out of patience for this sort of thing, and it's 12:23 AM.
I'm trying to run Ubuntu 14.04 with Hyper-V on a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro running Windows 8.1. I cannot get the virtual ...
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Unable to turn on Virtual Machine Windows Virtual Server 2005 R2
I have a standard virtual machine that is running windows 7 32-bit, on a a physical server running Windows Server 2008 64-bit. The virtual machine is running on Windows Virtual Server 2005.
When I go ...
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Listen to audio of a virtual machine in the background?
I know it's a weird question but the scenario is that I am a Windows user and I made a script which reports "something" with a sound in a Debian virtual machine, but when I have it minimized I can not ...
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64-bit Windows guest in VirtualBox impossible without VT-x support? [duplicate]
I have successfully installed Windows Vista 32-bit in a VM with VirtualBox. Now I'm trying to do the same with Windows Vista 64-bit and it just isn't working. I have created the VM but it seems that ...
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How can I run Windows 1.0 on a Windows 8 PC?
I'm certain this will require a Virtual machine, but I am not sure how to implement it or even if it is free to do.
I am currently running Windows 8.1 on an x64 based system
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VirtualBox mounted with Vagrant reach maximum diskspace
Today my Windows build machine reached its disk space limit. It turned out that I had more than 400GB in the folder
C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\VirtualBox VMs
During the build process, ...
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Virtual Machine in Windows causes mouse pointer artifacts
I feel like I've seen this problem with multiple virtual machines with Win8 and Win7 on multiple physical machines using VMWare and Visual Studio Tablet Simulator. Once you start using a virtual ...
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Snapshotting virtual disks mounted in Windows without using vritualization?
I know that you can mount VHDs in Windows, but you can't create snapshots on the go, like in virtual machines. You have to unmount it first, create a differential VHD using Diskpart and mount it again....
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Get a windows 8 host to access a website hosted in a windows server guest
I am running windows server 2012 as a guest(using Oracle Virtualbox) on a windows 8.
I have a website hosted on the guest OS which i can access in a browser inside the guest.
I would like to be ...
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Which Windows settings to apply inside a virtual machine?
I am looking for good settings to make within Windows when Windows is running as a virtual machine.
My virtual machines are used in the following environment:
used during Software development
used ...
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How to boot from CD even if BIOS doesn't allow this?
Recently I've helped user who had such problem:
I have really old machine that has no USB ports and it's BIOS doesn't allow to boot from CD. However, it has Windows XP onboard. How can I install ...
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