Questions tagged [virtualbox]
VirtualBox is a free, open source virtualization program from Oracle for the x86/x86_64 architectures.
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Cannot join my own gameserver via my external IP
In short, when I launch a game server on Windows, I can only join it via the local IP address but not via my public IP.
The server and the client are on the same machine, same interface. The server is ...
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Hello world! My query may be a repeat but..... reputation points dont build themselves? VM + Windows 10 [closed]
So im running win 10 home and have an i7 8700k, of course with virtualization on.....
My question is this.... Is there a way to boot into a virtual machine ive set up? i already have dual boot with an ...
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How does the router know to send packets to a VM on bridge mode?
How exactly does the router know that, to reach a VM, it needs to reach my computer first? Does VirtualBox alter the local network ARP?
Some people say that you need to set promiscuous mode for ...
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Why can Ethernet NICs bridge to VirtualBox and most Wi-Fi NICs don't?
I saw in forums that some Wi-Fi adapters can't support bridge, but they didn't explain very well why.
So:
Why can all Ethernet NICs bridge to a VM, like VirtualBox bridge mode, and some Wi-Fi ...
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How VirtualBox NIC bridging works?
I'm trying to understand somethings.
General Part:
I'm new on this area and I saw a video of a phisical network that told that a bridge connects two networks and knows if certain host is on the A side ...
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Windows 8.1 Pro VM (on VirtualBox running on Ubuntu) won't boot [closed]
First and foremost, forgive me if any of the following command returns are too vague or missing; I'm typing this up partly from screenshots and partly from memory. Happy to run any or all of them ...
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How host.docker.internal works on Windows
I just want to understand why on Windows the IP of host.docker.internal is not the IP of the host, neither 172.17.0.1.
How all of this works on Docker?
I've already read the documentation but couldn't ...
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black screen after login into kali inside virtualbox [maybe display bad settings]
I after install Kali inside oracle VirtualBox I can`t login to it and see this black screen:
And when i want to close it VirtualBox shows me this:
I think it is incorrect display settings. These are ...
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How can I link the virtual machine to appear with its own unique MAC address?
I made a virtual machine when changing from NAT to bridging mode, and when checking on the devices connected to the network the virtual machine appears with the host MAC address which I assume is ...
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Security Onion VM not picking up traffic from mirrored port
I have the following set up: my PC is connected to two ports on the Netgear switch (2 and 7) via two NICs, and the switch is configured to mirror ports 3 & 4 to port 7. A Security Onion VM on ...
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VM Virtualbox bridged network & issues connecting to eduroam WiFi
I have an Ubuntu 22 computer on which I have a Windows 10 VM using Virtualbox. I use bridged network settings.
When I am at home on the WiFi or using a personal hotspot from my smartphone, Windows 10 ...
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Is Bridge Mode on Docker the same thing as NAT Network on VirtualBox?
For me they're the same. There's the host that handles the IP's to the virtual machines and they can communicate with each other and with the host, but not see other devices on the Local Network.
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How to fix bridged VirtualBox ethernet setup with the network config on the ubuntu guest system?
On windows 10 I have a ubuntu VirtualBox running and I have two ethernet interfaces on the windows host:
"Ethernet"
"WLAN"
I now want to connect these two real ethernet devices ...
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How to define the network settings inside a ubuntu virtual machine inside VirtualBox?
On windows 10 I am running a VirtualBox with an Ubuntu OS inside, and I seem to have issues to set up the network inside. ip addr show shows the following output:
while the network settings is empty!
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VirtualBox can't operate in VMX mode
Recently, I tried to use VirtualBox and got this error,
VirtualBox can't operate in VMX root mode.
Please disable the KVM kernel extension, recompile your kernel and reboot.
(VERR_VMX_IN_VMX_ROOT_MODE)...
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Can't boot VHD image after resizing in VirtualBox
I have a pretty big mess to sort.
I have a 512GB VHD which I use to store private backups. It started running out of storage so I looked online how to make it bigger (as I assumed VHD's probably just ...
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VM Virtualbox: can only login on VPN client on VM when VM's firewall is off. How to add an exception to the VM's FIrewall?
I need a Windows OS for work in which I have full control. I have a computer with Ubuntu and from there I am running a Windows 10 VM through Oracle's VM VirtualBox.
My work requires me to use a VPN ...
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Kali linux does not update and does not upgrade
Kali Linux has some problems, can you help me in detail to solve these problems? I am using Kali Linux version 2020.2.
I write sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade, it doesn't update and doesn't ...
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How to properly create a useable disk image for Virtual box?
I can create the disk image of a bootable Linux HDD by using sudo, but then it fails to boot in VirtualBox. My steps are as follows:
dd if=/dev/sde of=sda.img bs=1024 conv=noerror,sync
VBoxManage ...
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Multi-Line VirtualBox VM Description From The CLI
How do you put a multi-line description in for a VirtualBox VM from the CLI? ie:
vboxmanage modifyvm My_VM --description="Minimal Centos Linux 9<br/>RAM: 2 GB"
(Yes, I'm trying to ...
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VirtualBox assigning duplicate IP address to clone with Host-only Adapter
I have two VMs where one VM has Ubuntu and the other VM is a full clone of the first VM.
Both VMs have two network interfaces (NAT and Host-only). I've changed the MAC addresses on both VMs multiple ...
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Not able to connect to Gitea through WireGuard although NGINX works
I am not able to connect to Gitea through WireGuard VPN, but NGINX works. Also I can connect without WireGuard.
Setup:
Gitea runs in Docker on Alpine Linux on a Windows-hosted Oracle VM VirtualBox ...
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Virtualbox Guru Meditation a critical error has occurred while running the virtual machine
System: Linux Ubuntu 22.04
Suddenly my Virtualbox doesn't work anymore and show this error:
Virtualbox - Guru Meditation
A critical error has occurred while running the virtual machine and the machine ...
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OpenVPN bridged setup: Unable to reach hosts
Disclaimer
This was originally posted on the Game of Active Directory repository:
https://github.com/Orange-Cyberdefense/GOAD/issues/233
Descriptions
I've setup a tap/bridged VPN using this guide to ...
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VirtualBox Ubuntu guest OS keyboard and mouse input not working after screen lock
My setup:
HP EliteBook 650, 32 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, connected to HP docking station
MS Windows 10 Enterprise host OS
VirtualBox 7.0.14
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS guest OS, 6 (out of 20) CPUs, 24 GB RAM, 300 GB ...
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Is it possible to install/use K8s safely in a personal laptop?
I am new in K8s and I was listening to a presentation where the person said that his preferred driver is Virtual Box because it is less probable to mess up your laptop if something goes wrong.
I was ...
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Network cant be reached in any way with weird apparmor behavior
I compile apparmor from sourc 4.0.0~alpha2-0ubuntu5 amd64, and was trying compile too gui apparmor https://github.com/jack-ullery/AppAnvil, and it's weird becouse i turned off and disable with ...
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Error trying to install S.u.S.E. Linux 5.2 in VirtualBox 7.0.16
Trying to install S.u.S.E. Linux 5.2 under VirtualBox 7.0.16 I get an error when installing the selected packages: "package aaa_base-98.5.20-0 is for a different architecture... ABORTED":
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Not able to access VM from host
I have kali linux in Virtual box and windows 10 as my main OS but when I try to access Kali linux from any external host through IP address of Kali linux then Kali linux cannot respond and when I used ...
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/dev/kvm in guest Ubuntu running on a Windows host with hyper-v enabled
My question is an extension of this. Basically I enabled "Hyper-V" and "Windows Hypervisor Platform". I did this because I will create a new VM in hyper-v that has GPU passthrough ...
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Unable to Connect to VirtualBox Guest OS (Rocky Linux 8) from Host (Windows 11) Terminal and No Internet Connectivity
I am currently using Oracle VirtualBox
7 with Windows 11 as the host OS. Within VirtualBox, I have Rocky Linux 8 installed as a guest OS. Initially, I had configured the network settings to bridge ...
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Fail to start VM in headless mode on windows
On windows 10 22H2, i can't sart VM in headless mode. I can't work with Ansible & Molecule on my laptop (Enterprise).
I reproduce the error with this command :
C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox&...
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Size of starting guest in VirtualBox
Is there a way how to increse inicial screen size of starting guest in VirtualBox?
VM is created
First start of VM by booting from ISO
Dialog appears but only upper part, the rest is out of the frame ...
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VirtualBox 7 - How to enable "shift + Numpad:Delete" shortcut with Numlock enable?
The "shift + Numpad:Delete" shortcut is not working in my VirtualBox 7.
At first I thought the problem was the Windows 10 ISO I was using, but I also tried the exact same ISO and ...
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USB disk on a VBox on RAID was repartitioned
I have an Ubuntu on a VBox on Windows 10 Pro. The Ubuntu had a Raid 1+0 with 2 external USB disks. Suddenly, when I restarted the server, both disks got repartitioned with these: PARTLABEL="...
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What is a high number of 'VM Exit's?
When using a virtual machine, one of the key performance parameters is 'VM exits'. I have a multicore VM under VM VirtualBox, indicating on average 30k VM exits per second, but I have nothing to ...
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Is it possible to have a single IP for a VM in different networks?
I am learning about DNS administration in Linux. And I do it in my office and home. In office my IP range is 10.x.x.x/21 whereas in my home, my IP range is 192.x.x.x/24. Since I am learning DNS by ...
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Using Virtualbox, how to show menubar and statusbar in scaled mode?
I'm using Virtualbox and I want to use it in scale mode.
How to make Virtualbox
show the menu bar in scaled mode
and status bar
When you are in scaled mode,
the normal mode host menu
changes to the ...
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Virtualbox won't boot a Windows partition in a dual boot system: "failed to load Boot0001 UEFI VBOX HARDDISK: Not found"
So I have a system with one hard drive with three partitions: Ubuntu 23.10, Windows 11 and a shared exFat partition for data.
The dual boot via grub works fine, but I want to be able to boot into the ...
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Failed to mount API Filesystems, on cloned drive, native and vbox
On an identical linux drive, where the only differences are partition UUID's and referencing files, using Fedora 38 64-bit and a UEFI boot, startup only continues to a point citing "Failed to ...
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Access pCloudDrive virtual drive from linux guest in windows 10 host os when using oracle VM Virtual Box
I have installed pcloud drive in lubuntu guest OS. My host OS is Windows 10. Now wanted to access pCloudDrive from my host os Windows 10. So what are the different options that i have, please suggest.
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Having issues with with “Drag & Drop” with Kali Linux on VirtualBox: “DnD: Error: Requesting pending data from guest failed (VERR_TIMEOUT).”
I have an issue with “Drag & Drop” with Kali Linux on VirtualBox on a Debian host!
Details:
Drag and drop operation from guest to host failed.
DnD: Error: Requesting pending data from guest ...
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Why in port forwarding in VirtualBox I can't set both equal host port and guest port?
Name: Anything you want. example for ssh, say “ssh"
Protocol: Type of protocol [ for ssh: TCP ]
Host IP: provide hostname from which host you want to connect to [ over here: 127.0.0.1 ]
Host Port:...
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VirtualBox 7.0 on Ubuntu 22.04 do not see FortiClient interface
I'm running a Windows10 virtual machine with VirtualBox 7.0 on Ubuntu 22.04.
I'm connected to a VPN thanks FortiClient with my Ubuntu and it's works well.
A new "fctvpn42f76226" interface is ...
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Black Screen Issue Running Windows 10 VM on MacBook Air M2 using VirtualBox
I recently acquired a MacBook Air M2 and installed VirtualBox to run a Windows 10 virtual machine.
However, upon launching the VM, I encounter a persistent black screen. Despite the VM running, I'm ...
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Why does Virtual Box freeze on "Starting Windows" screen on macOS Catalina 10.15.7?
I have macOS Catalina 10.15 and I installed VirtualBox v7.0 to run Windows 7 x64 (and windows10 x64). When I boots it hangs at "Starting Windows" screen. Screenshot below.
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VBox guest local port forwarding
I have a Debian Guest OS I want to SSH into. I'm just using NAT as my network adapter. I only need to access the VM from my local Host machine. When setting up Port forwarding in the network tab it ...
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Drive boots on physical machine but doesn't on any virtual machine
Some time ago I got a request of making a fairly old (Windows 7 64bit) machine into a virtual machine. I was given a hdd clone of the machine in question however when this drive is used in VirtualBox ...
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Network configuration with 3 Oracle VirtualBox VMs
I have a requirement to create 3 VMs and configure the machines as below :
two machines with their distinct networks
third machine contains above two networks that my client can communicate to both ...
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In vmworkstation, NAT local and global interface MAC verification
In ARP request, VM vNIC adapter has sender MAC address 00:XX:XX:XX:XX:bb. The IP address of receiver NAT device is 192.168.237.2. The MAC address of NAT from ARP should be 00:XX:XX:XX:12
While ...
