Questions tagged [virtualbox]
VirtualBox is a free, open source virtualization program from Oracle for the x86/x86_64 architectures.
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Autorun zerofree on boot (or on shutdown)
I have a virtualbox vitual server that keeps growing. To keep its virtual disk small I'm manually shrinking it using VBoxManage modifyhd disk.vdi compart after zeroing unused space on the disk using ...
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How to enable virtio in Virtualbox?
My VM (Ubuntu 12.04) has 2 network interfaces attached which is recognized as eth0 and eth1.
Now I want to change the cards to virtio to improve the performance, so I open VM settings and change both ...
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What are the risks of setting VirtualBox CPU count up to the *logical* CPU count?
The GUI and the documentation of VirtualBox warn about setting virtual CPU count higher than the physical CPU count:
You should not, however, configure virtual machines to use more CPU cores than ...
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Permanently set keyboard layout in X11
I need a psychiatrist for my PC.
It is convinced it is an iMac (sort of).
Seriously: I have a problem which popped up apparently from nowhere, most likely due to some upgrade with "side effects", ...
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VERR_VMX_IN_VMX_ROOT_MODE when running VirtualBox with libvirt installed
I'm running RHEL 6.4. I had been using a VirtualBox VM to run a simulator, but recently installed libvirtd for a different project. Now I want to run my VirtualBox VM again, but keep getting an error ...
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How to set network location for VirtualBox Host-Only Network adapter on Windows 8 between private/public?
I have configured a Windows Server 2008 guest on VirtualBox v5.0.10 on a Windows 8 host laptop. They work fine and ping each other on bridged mode, IP address are served by a wireless router.
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Cannot delete VirtualBox snapshot due to "insufficient space"
My disk is full because my VirtualBox snapshots are consuming a large amount of space. But, I cannot delete the snapshots because there's insufficient space.
I would rather have my snapshots stored ...
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Override localhost IP Adress in Windows 8.1
I'm trying to set up Windows 8.1 virtual machine through VirtualBox for testing a server running on my Mac (running Yosemite 10.10.3). VirtualBox sets up a the IP 10.0.2.2 to point to the host machine'...
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Getting Mac Docker client to connect to virtualbox via vagrant
I am trying to expose dockers tcp ip to my host docker client. I have the following setup
Virtualbox 4.3.26 r98988
vagrant 1.7.2
Mac OSX Mavericks 10.9.5
Centos 6.6 vagrant box running (docker 1.5.0)
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Vagrant windows 8.1 box timeouts - even though the machine boots correctly
I have a simple vagrant master box, that has Windows, drivers for it, and VB guest additions installed.
I've added that machine as a box, and tried creating a simple vagrant vm with only the basic ...
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Can't delete a read-only file on a VirtualBox (Vagrant) shared folder between Ubuntu (guest) and Win7 (host)
I have Vagrant running Ubuntu as a guest OS, on top of a Windows 7 host. When working on the shared folder between guest and host, if a file is read-only it can't be deleted. For example:
vagrant@...
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VirtualBox Port Forward not working when Guest IP *IS* specified (while doc says opposite)
Trying to port forward from host (Mac OS X) 127.0.0.1:8282 -> guest (CentOS)'s 10.10.10.10:8080. Existing port forwards include 127.0.0.1:8181 and 9191 to guest without any IP specified (so whatever ...
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Virtualbox: How to use VBoxBalloonCtrl
I am running some virtual machines with Oracle Virtualbox 4.3.10, and they have guest additions installed. I know that you can manually balloon (take away unused memory from the guest) RAM with ...
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A fast modern network filesystem to replace VirtualBox's shared folder emulation
My work code repository is stored in host Linux system, and is accessed from Windows guest; currently, guest can access the repo via 'shared folder' which looks like a samba emulation.
But, it just ...
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Use Biztalk training kit on a Virtual machine
I have a Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit laptop with 8 GB RAM. I am trying to get the Biztalk training kit() installed on a VM on this machine. I have used Oracle VirtualBox to create a windows 2008 64 ...
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Get Illegal Instruction error when booting Linux in VirtualBox, works fine when booted directly
I have a computer on which I am dual booting Windows 7 and Gentoo Linux (both 64-bit). I want to be able to load up my Linux installation in a VM while I am booted into Windows. I have installed ...
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Portable VirtualBox kernel driver error
I'm using PortableVirtualBox for about a year with no problems.
But from two weeks now -without upgrading or updating anything on Virtualbox or anything
related on my PC- after running any of my VMs ...
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Optimize Mac OS X Snow Leopard for Virtualbox host
I seem to work out of a Linux VirtualBox most of the time (portable USB SSD) on my Snow Leopard Macbook (~2008). How can I optimize Snow Leopard to be an optimal VirtualBox host? I don't mind reducing ...
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why can't I create directories in virtual box shared folder? Windows 7 host, arch linux guest
I'm mounting a shared folder in an arch linux guest on a windows 7 host in Virtual Box. The shared folder's filesystem is ext3 and is mounted in windows 7 with Ext2Fsd.
I mount the shared folder at ...
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Configuring GRUB to choose different OS when inside VM
On my laptop, I've got a dual-boot configuration with Windows 7 and Linux OSes installed.
I am also using Linux via Oracle VirtualBox (through raw VMDK file) when working in Windows.
Since I have ...
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Access a printer through a virtualized XP instance running in Ubuntu
I have a printer which is incompatible with Ubuntu but works fine with XP. If i have XP running inside ubuntu with VirtualBox or some virtualisation solution will i be able to use my printer through ...
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How to prevent VirtualBox VM crashing into "Aborted" when resuming it from a snapshot with running OpenGL application inside?
When I try snapshot/restore-state in VirtualBox 4.0.4, it works.
Hovewer, if I try restoring snapshot when some OpenGL-enabled application is running inside VM, VM crashes immediately after starting.
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Check Point VPN client alternatives
On Windows I can connect to a VPN with the Check Point Endpoint Security client.
However, since my main desktop is Ubuntu 18.04 I found an alternative client (SNX) which worked until some weeks ago. (...
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Move VirtualBox VM to another host OS
I have created a VirtualBox VM Windows Server 2008 (32 bit version) on my Windows XP host.
After that, I copied the VM on another host machine (also Windows XP), and it still worked fine.
But when I ...
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Can't use macOS Ventura VM with more than one CPU
I recently created a macOS VM (Ventura 13) with VirtualBox (Version 7.0.6 r155176 (Qt5.15.2)). I first launched it with one CPU, and it booted. The downside was that the VM was very slow and ...
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Openssl 3.0 error when booting Vagrantbox
I updated my local linux notebook from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04. I did a fresh installation for several reasons.
Now I have a problem with my most important vagrantbox. This box encapsulates my ...
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Running Both Virtualbox and Android Virtual Device Manager on Ubuntu
Both Virtualbox and Android Studio's Android Virtual Device Manager (AVD) needs to be able to run on my Ubuntu 20.04 machine containing AMD Ryzen 3950X.
If KVM is disabled (such as by adding kvm_amd ...
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Stuck On "Detecting Android-x86.. found at dev/sda1" While installing Android 9.1-r2 (x64) In VirtualBox
First of all, I'm frustrated as hell, I'm facing this problem for the last 6 months when I first thought to try android on a PC.
Till then, I've tried multiple iso's from android 7 to android 9 but ...
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change/remove the "virtual box" label of the integrated camera (while using host webcam in virtual box)
I am using virtualbox to run linux mint 20.01 and I am using the host webcam in it. I want to change the name of the webcam which by default has the prefix "virtual box"
can anyone suggest ...
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Shared clipboard and drag and drop not working on Windows 10 Guest with Ubuntu Host 20.04
I have Ubuntu 20.04 and on top of it I installed Virtualbox. I installed Windows as the guest OS, and enabled bidirectional option for shared clipboard and drag and drop. But it does not work. I have ...
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