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No space remained on ubuntu 18.04 running on Oracle VM VirtualBox

I'm using Windows 10, with installed memory RAM 8GB (7,89 GB usable). I'm using Oracle VM VirtualBox on which I'm running ubuntu 18.04 with these settings: VM Settings I was installing a python ...
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VirtualBox Ubuntu lags at 4K resolution on powerful PC

I'm running the latest Ubuntu on Oracle VirtualBox. When I keep the window at default small size, it runs almost as smoothly as the Windows 10 host. However, when I maximize the window, the lag ...
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VMWare workstation 14: “not enough physical memory available to start this VM” when running VM on Ubuntu 17.10 Artful

I have had the issue of not being able to start my VM after I upgraded to Ubuntu Artful (17.10) using the VMWare Player. My system has 16GB or RAM, 12 of those free but shortly after a boot VMWare ...
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Extremely slow windows 7 in virtual box on Ubuntu 16.04 host OS

I have installed Windows 7 on Virtual box. I have installed virtual box guest additions. My host OS is Ubuntu 16.04 My Windows is running extremely slow. It is often hanging so much that poweroff is ...
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Vmware Workstation uses all my RAM

When I run a virtual machine in VMware workstation, after a few minutes of use, it uses all my RAM (16GB). My system performance slows down to a crawl. The problem happens with Linux guest too but its ...
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How can virtual machines consume so little RAM on the physical host machine?

I'm running VirtualBox on a Windows XP machine with 2GB RAM. I've created a virtual Ubuntu machine and allocated it a base memory of 750MB. Just to put it to a test, I ran 20 things at once on the ...
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