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Recommended size of memory and hard disk for a VirtualBox VM for Solaris with Oracle
I have a laptop with Windows 7 64-bit operating system. I have installed VirtualBox 5.1.14 on it. Now I want to create a Solaris 10 VM where I would like to install Oracle 10g. What is the recommended ...
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Can I successfully run a Kali Linux VM on one drive while my host OS is on another?
I've been attempting to set up a Kali Linux VM. I've continuously been running into a failure when attempting to install the system files inside VirtualBox and I'm curious as to whether or not it has ...
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VirtualBox: How much disk i/o speed gain will I gain if I have fixed-size hdd image?
I am running virtualbox on win7 with a dynamically allocated hard disk image. It seems to consume a lot of CPU and be slow on hdd activity.
I've heard that not choosing a dynamically sized virtual ...
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File Allocation for VM
I'm running Kali Linux as a virtual machine inside Oracle's Virtualbox. I've allocated 40GB of hard drive space, file type: VirtualBox Disk Image; Dynamicallly Allocated. On the VM it is showing the ...
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How to use VirtualBox on raw disk where I have my system
I have a dualboot on the same physical drive, but not on the same partition. In windows, I'd like to use virtualbox to boot on linux, like that:
VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ".....
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VirtualBox Linux Mint Refuses to Save to Hard Disk
Every time I start up Linux Mint and add some files to the Desktop, they disappear when I shut down and restart the OS. I could just save the state of the machine every time, but that's a bit annoying....
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Re sizing VirtualBox vhd with windows 7 host and windows xp client
I am stuck on one step of resizing a virtual hardisk... I followed the instruction used found in this Youtube video...
Video I followed
Well that worked. But my windows xp virtual still had the ...
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Install windows 11 on a physical disk thrught virtualbox, to use later as normal windows 11 boot
i will soon update my build from more than 10 years old.
is possible to use virtualbox or any other VM software to format a real/physical disk and install windows 11 for later use this disk in the new ...
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How can I transfer data from a virtualbox .vhd to a physical harddrive?
I have a virtual machine (Arch Linux) on a Windows 10 Host. The virtual hard drive is stored in a .vhd file.
I have a desktop that is currently Windows but I'm going to dual boot with the main ...
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Newbie to virtual box can a vm using the same hdd give the host pc viruses
I just recently got into virtual box and have been using it and I have one question
Let's say my main pc had a 2 ssds and 1 hdd 1 ssd os 1 ssd for fast load time games and the hdd for misc games pics ...
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add space to /dev/sda1 kali linux
i have never done such operations on my kali linux. I want to add more disk space and I have done the following.
In Virtual Box settings I have added more space.
Done
This has added more space on ...
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Extract files from disk raw image
I have two raw images of some old IDE HDD (one made without of any data correction and second made with). Trying to mount the images to the system by various methods do not work properly.
I use ...
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Full Clone VDI with VBoxManage.exe
What is the command-line switch that I should use to create a full clone of a given vdi?
I want to be able to clone the virtual machine such that all files, folders and applications are also copied ...
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How do I calculate drive space needed when installing a Linux ISO to a VM?
I inherited a project from someone no longer with the company. I have a bootable ISO of their development machine. It's 48 GB.
I want to install that ISO to a VirtualBox VM. I allocated 100 GB ...
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Cygwin: Associate Windows 7 disk number with physical location
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Is is possible from Cygwin (Windows 7) to discover the disk "Location" (in this case specific SATA port) given only the Windows disk number, e.g. "Disk 1" is on SATA channel 3.
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