Questions tagged [virtual-machine]
A virtual machine is an emulation of a guest operating system, running on virtualized hardware within a host operating system.
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How to access Host devices on Windows 7 VM (Hyper V)
I am running Windows 7 with XP mode as a VM on a Windows 11 Host. How do I get the Windows 7 VM and XP Mode to access the Windows 11 Host devices?
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Does a virtual machine reserve parts of my hardware?
If i would create a VM would it permanentley reserve parts of my GPU, CPU and Ram? I know that it splits the drive it is installed on, but does it also split other hardware components even if it is ...
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Hyper V checkpoints with an Azure VM
Is there any thing in Azure VMs similar to Hyper V checkpoints? I want to preserve the state of an Azure vm, deploy software builds for test and debugging and quickly revert. I do not want or need a ...
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Host-only mode in VMware
I have created Windows 10 VM and my NIC card is set to host-only mode. My problem is that from host system I can see virtual machine (by ping tool) but from virtual machine I cant't see host system.
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where is the cache location of VMWare copy and paste cache on Mac?
When copying and pasting between the host and virtual machine (VM), I have noticed a brief window that appears and disappears. It seems that this window may be responsible for temporarily storing the ...
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curl not working on an RHEL8 Server
I have 3 running RHEL 8 VM's as Servers connected to my Company's network and for Setup purposes I need to download a script using curl.
The VM's are properly connected to the internet for example I ...
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VMWare Fusion W11 apps close on Mac lock
I installed Windows 11 on VMWare Fusion on a Mac M1.
Whenever my mac locks the apps open on the vm close and I have to reopen. Anyone know how to fix this?
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Getting shared folders to work on a VM with open-vm-tools
VMWare Workstation Pro Version 17.0.2 build-21581411
Host System: Win 10 Pro most recent version
Guest OS: Zorin OS 16 Core most recent version
I want to setup a shared folder between my windows host ...
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"Destination unreachable (Network unreachable)" from physical router to virtual machine
For a bit of context, a relative of mine wanted to host an application on his port 30000 so he could play with his friends online on a server located on his machine. However, as he can't setup port ...
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Is it safer to use a VM and VPN for working with other people's python scripts or executables?
I want to start taking freelancing jobs doing python programming, but I am new to working for others. I want to do everything I can to avoid scams and having my computer infected with malware. I know ...
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VirtualBox Won't Respond After Killing Task
I tried to load a Debian OS, it was trying to start the VM but it took forever. I decided to kill VirtualBox processes, now whenever I start VirtualBox it won't open, it's just on my taskbar, if I ...
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QEMU: passing usb devices running fullspeed to vm with ehci usb controller running lowspeed
I have Windows XP VM with GPU passthrough and would like also to pass usb keyboard and mouse to it.
I am doing the usb passthrough with:
-device usb-host,vendorid=0x1e7d,productid=0xafca \
-device usb-...
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Dramatic difference in network performance between multiple KVM virtual machines, accessing a bridged physical interface
I have noticed a very peculiar difference in network speeds for the 3 VMs I have created. For one VM the network works without any issues. For the next the packet loss is between 50 and 100%, usually ...
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pfSense not working properly on Azure VNet? What do i do?
I'm currently working on a project based on creating virtual networks and configuring a virtualized firewall (pfSense) along with access control. I was given this project idea in a cybersecurity ...
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How do I connect a Dockerised NodeJS server application to external clients and databases?
I've an existing NodeJS server application:
Deployed in a RHEL7 VM
Clients make HTTPS POST requests to the REST API via a URL e.g., https://example.url.xxx:3000/api/endpoint
In-app middleware code ...
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Can't connect to VM remotely
I have Virtual machine with Ubuntu server installed.
Trying to connect to that VM with domain name I have created thru external network.
Up until now I'm able to connect to my VM thru my LAN
What I ...
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VM cannot autostart due to insufficient resources?
Using ESXI 7.0 update 2.
I have an autostart configured for a VM. I tried testing it by turning the ESXI off/on via my IDRAC interface, and I am now seeing this error when it tries to turn the VM on ...
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Use SSD from old laptop on new laptop as VM
My old HP laptop has an SSD (windows 7). I now have a new laptop (win 11 pro). I would like to access the data from the old laptop. Ideally I want to pull out the SSD, stick it in some sort of housing,...
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How to enable bridged networking in VirtualBox?
I've tried many things I read on the Internet and nothing worked so I decided to post my question here so someone would understand my problem. I want to enable bridged networking in my virtual machine ...
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Migrating Old Windows XP and 7 machines to VMs to improve security
I work for a manufacturing company which has all kinds of equipment that runs older operating systems. Some have computers that run full blown Windows XP and Windows 7, while others run embedded ...
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How to transfer a VM between two physically connected ESXI servers?
I have two Dell PowerEdge T440s, each with ESXI Version 7 update 2.
These are meant to act as a redundant pair and should have identical copies of the same VM on both in case one crashes the other can ...
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Hyper-v's xrdp login screen suddenly vanished and now I can't change screen resolution
I have Windows 10 business with hyper-v Version: 10.0.19041.1. I normally start an Ubuntu 22.04 VM on hyper-v and it takes me to the xrdp screen where I can chose settings like shared drives and ...
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How does Vagrant setup network interfaces?
As I understand,network interface is a software interface to networking hardware.
On my Vagrant VM
ifconfig
cni0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1450
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Convert Vultr (cloud) VM to Virtual Box VM
I recently transferred a DD image of my Vultr VPS to my home computer. I used a Debian VirtualBox VM to make a new virtual disk, mount the DD image, rsync all the files from DD image to new virtual ...
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Trouble with ARP Spoofing with a Virtual Machine in my real Network
I'm currently facing an issue while trying to test my Python-based ARP spoofing program in a Kali Linux virtual machine running on VirtualBox on my PC. The VM is connected to my network using a ...
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Is it possible to allocate a dimm slot to a VM
I read that it is possible to escape a VM by overflowing the RAM and sending something in the main OS.
So would it be possible (even in theory) to allocate one of the RAM stick or dimm port to a VM?
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VirtualBox: Sharing Files From a VM Guest OS's Filesystem to a Path on Its Host OS's Filesystem Like WSL?
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On Windows, Windows Subsystem for Linux — I use WSL 2, but this also applies for WSL 1, as I understand it — makes the guest Linux instance's filesystems available to the Windows host ...
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Route VM Ware/VirtualBox traffic through VPN
I have a few VMWare (Workstation 16) and VirtualBox VMs running on both MacOS and Windows hosts. I need to route their traffic through my VPN provider, Nord, in a transparent manner, without the VMs ...
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View Virtualbox Website On Mobile Over Wi-Fi Network
I have established a pretty solid virtualbox local development environment with my host runnng Debian 11 and my Guest running Ubuntu 20.04 server, Virtualmin 7, and LAMP. My Guest gets internet ...
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QEMU Win10 resolution change doesn't work when window resized
I have VM with Windows 10 as guest and would like to set up automatic resolution change when window (qemu integrated display or virt-viewer) is resized, but it doesn't work for me.
My virtual machine:
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How to connect to VPN server from a machine I'm remotely controling thanks to another VPN server?
So I have my router at home acting as a OpenVPN server. From anywhere I can connect to it to access my network. One of the elements in that network is a server where I host virtual machines for ...
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Create Virtual Machine of partitioned IDE HDD connected via USB/IDE adaptor
I have an IDE HDD with its disk partitioned as part1 and part2 (and the Windows7-created "System Reserved" partition).
I don't have the/a computer to boot it on.
It contains C: (part1) and ...
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installing a virtual machine + ubuntu on a macbook air m1
for the last 3 days i've been struggling to run ubuntu on my macbook m1, i tried 3 different virtual machines ( oracle virtual box, Utm and parallel )
oracle virtualbox didn't even run ubuntu it ...
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Taskhost Process has high CPU when using VirtualBox
I am running a Ubuntu VirtualBox-VM on my Windows 10 host machine.
After the VM is running for some time (not at the beginning), the process taskhostw.exe uses much of the CPU. I normaly use ssh to ...
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What's the password needed to ssh to Windows
I have 2 VMs, one is a Kali VM and the other is a Windows 10 VM that I've initialised with a generic key (https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/95922-generic-product-keys-install-windows-10-editions....
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IP address removed from docker0 bridge on QEMU/KVM virtual machine
I'm renting a virtualized server running Ubuntu 22.04 and I'm trying to run Docker containers within it. The server is virtualized with qemu-kvm.
Unfortunatly, the containers don't have network access....
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Prevent disk read/write access between 2 operating systems
I would like to isolate disks between 2 operating systems. I hope im posting on the correct stackexchange :)
Setup:
1x 2.5 SATA drive with work OS - im not in control of the settings in
this OS
1x 2....
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How to optimise a VM for gaming [closed]
Me and my friend like to play a game called "Red dead redemption 2" but sadly his PC is pretty weak and that's why he doesn't want to play anymore. Yesterday we came up with a solution. My ...
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Can't SSH into Windows VM despite setting up OpenSSH
A couple of days ago, I set up a Windows 11 VM using VMware Fusion on my Macbook Air, and despite the janky and, at times, incredibly frustrating installation process (finding ISO files that will run ...
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Multi Machine Vagrant Setup Only Creates One VM of Two
The below VagrantFile should create 2 VM's, however when running vagrant up only 1 VM goes up (this appears to be semi randomly selected between the 2). After whichever VM goes up first, I get a ...
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Login to VM downloaded from Google Compute Engine
I downloaded the disk for a google compute instance as a vmdk and I'm able to bring it up in VMware Fusion (it's a debian 10 instance). However when I run it locally it's prompting me a for username &...
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USB passthrough to VM with maximum isolation from host
I'm thinking of experimenting with some USB devices in a virtual machine (preferably QEMU). For security reasons, I don't want to let them interact with the host.
Things I've tried:
Doing nothing ...
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Windows 10 Virtual Machine from Microsoft?
Microsoft offers a free to download virtual machine for Windows 11 here
But I am looking for a Windows 10 virtual machine. Does Microsoft offer (or previously offered) such a download?
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ping to 8.8.8.8 took long time or even want to show result
Im using ip tables to simulate between host and and client. I can ping between host and client or client between client but the client cannot ping to the 8.8.8.8 or even using internet, but the host ...
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starting a Centos 7 VM on AMD laptop running Windows 10 host
I have an existing Centos 7 VM that I can start without problems on a Windows 10 desktop (Intel CPU). I recently bought a new (Lenovo) laptop with a Ryzen 7 CPU; also Windows 10. I copied the vdi to ...
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VM from IDE XP partition on multiboot AHCI Win 8.1 partition
I have a single hard drive with 3 multiboot partitions:
Windows 8.1 Professional;
Windows XP x32;
Windows XP x64
The current XP partitions contain many programs for which I no longer have ...
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DNS server bind9 + apache2 on Ubuntu Server VM + localhost problems connectivity
I'm trying to resolve some problems with my DNS server + Apache2 and local machine.
I've got Ubuntu server on VirtualBox with NAT network adapter.
I tried to create DNS server for my page praktykant....
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How to run qubes os on KVM
Is there a way to get Qubes OS working in KVM, it freezes short after into boot, I tried to boot into new kernel but result is still the same.
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What is the difference between a click2compute server and a VM server?
I have always seen c2c servers like : vc2cptm3245768j , vc2cptk3245769g etc . I have also seen vm servers like : vlptm1ggoi987, vlptk1ggoi988 .
I know that the c2c servers are like IAAS provided ...
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Which Virtual Display for UTM Ubuntu under M1 Mac?
I was using virtio-gpu-pci which was running at cpu.
I want to use gpu, so I tried to change the value to virtio-gpu-gl-pci (GPU Supported).
My Ubuntu runs fine, but programs no.
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