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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Use physical harddisk in Virtual Box
Using Virtual Box, how can I install an OS to a secondary, physical disk, and boot it in both (at separate times) Virtual Box, and as a typical secondary OS install?
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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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Is it possible to convert virtual machines to physical environments?
Is is possible to convert a .vdi file into a .iso that can be burned to a cd or dvd and make it like an installer. Or Is it possible to convert virtual machines to physical environments?
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What's the recommended way to move a VirtualBox VM to another computer?
I use VirtualBox 4.1.x on my Ubuntu machine and I’ve set up several virtual machines. Since there are several ways one can move a virtual machine in VirtualBox to another computer, I was wondering ...
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How do I get out my embedded Windows 8+ key from a Linux environment?
I have seen other SuperUser questions on this topic: How to find Windows 8 product key? | How to find Windows 8 OEM product key?
However, all of the answers assume you have Windows 8 running.
I've ...
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Why Virtual Box won't give me option to create 64 bits guests?
My host is x64 bits Windows 8.1.
I downloaded the latest Virtual Box (4.3) and I'm trying to create a VM with a 64 bits Ubuntu OS (ubuntu-12.04.3-desktop-amd64).
When I go to New VM wizard, it doesn'...
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Can a virus from a VirtualBox VM affect the host computer?
Can a virus from a VirtualBox VM affect the host computer?
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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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Virtual box is not working on windows 10
I have installed virtual box But when I tried to run it. It shows me an error as:
I have been trying everything for whole day. Like there are answers related to this question as:
VT-x is not ...
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Virtual Machine and Virus
I have a requirement for which I have to get online without protection (firewall, anti-virus). At the same time, I don't want to risk getting infected with viruses.
If I install a virtual machine (...
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How can I take browser screenshots at a higher resolution than my browser supports?
I need to take a screenshot of a website as it would appear on a very high resolution monitor... say 4000x3000 pixels. My laptop's screen has a native resolution of 1400x768. Basically, I need to ...
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How do I install and use Windows Virtual PC in Windows 8?
I really liked the integrated Virtual Machine that Windows had built-in with Windows 7, known as the Windows Virtual PC. I'm looking to install that again. I'd like to be able to install multiple ...
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Dedicated mouse and keyboard for a virtual machine, is it possible?
Let's say I have a PC with two monitors atached. I'm running e.g. Windows Vista natively, and start up a virtual Ubuntu PC. I change to fullscreen mode so that on one Monitor, I see my Windows Desktop,...
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Which virtual machine software is preferable for running Windows 8 Developer Preview? [closed]
I want to preview Windows 8 and decided to install it on a virtual machine as I don't want to format an existing partition.
Installing Windows 8 by mounting the .iso results in the primary ...
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