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Is my host machine completely isolated from a virus-infected virtual machine?
If I am running a Windows 7 virtual machine on a Windows 7 host using
VMWare or VirtualBox (or anything else) and the virtual machine is completely
overloaded with viruses and other malicious software,...
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Does the Virtual PC XP Mode need safety measures?
Does the Virtual PC XP-Mode (or any other virtualized mode) require safety measures, such as antivirus or a firewall?
I'm just wondering if the XP-Mode would be a large security loophole, since it's ...
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Booting into a Virtual Machine from a physical installation
In Mac OSX, you can create a Boot Camp partition, install Windows on it, and then later by using Parallels you can boot into that OS virtually in OS X! Its awesome, I've been using it on my macbook.
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Using virtual box is it possible to set your virtual machine time to be different from host time
Using virtual box is it possible to set your virtual machine time to be different from host time. Say 1 year into the past.
If I wanted to run the windows XP images provided by Microsoft from here.
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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 do I migrate my Windows desktop to a VirtualBox VM?
I have VirtualBox 4.3.6 and True Image 2014 Premium with Universal Restore. I've read a lot about different methods but I'm not sure where to start, or what will suit my needs.
Directly from ...
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How to create a Windows virtual machine using Hyper-V Manager
I am trying to create a Windows virtual machine using Hyper-V, but I have several issues. I tried following instructions on this page, to use the "Quick Create":
I was ...
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How to turn a Windows XP partition into a VirtualBox virtual machine?
How can I turn a hard drive with XP into a VirtualBox virtual machine?
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Hyper-V vs Virtual Machine Platform vs Windows Hypervisor Platform settings in Programs and Features? [closed]
Windows 10 shows these three separate features that seem to be the same thing or related.
Hyper-V (note that in latest Windows 10 version this has disappeared from the "Windows Features" ...
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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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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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Why won't my mapped drive persist for elevated user after reboot?
This is related to this issue: Command Prompt in Administrator mode doesn't see mapped drives
I'm needing to run a program (InstallShield) as an elevated user, but this program also needs to ...
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Possible to have multiple virtual monitors for a VMware guest in windowed mode?
Using VMware Workstation 10 on Windows, I've read "Use Multiple Monitors for One Virtual Machine" and managed to make it work as described when running the machine in Full Screen mode.
What I would ...
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Mouse+Keyboard for each VM? [duplicate]
I'm using VM Ware (specifically the player) and i'd like to attach a multiple mouses and have one for each VM (same idea with keyboard but i havent tried keyboards yet). I'd like several people using ...
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