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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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(Windows 7 virtualbox) Crashes After I Enable 3D Accelation And Change Resolution
I installed windows 7 on Oracle Virtualbox. I Can't change the resolution. When I try, it shuts down and restarts windows 7. It works when 3D acceleration is off.
(I have guest additions)
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Hyper-V is not found on windows 7 bios
I'm currently using Windows 7 Home OS with 2GB RAM and cores and I was trying to install x64 Ubuntu on most recent version Oracle VirtualBox for college assignment. All I got is the following occured ...
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Directx version is 11 but DDI version is 9Ex? [closed]
I am using windows 7 as my VirtualBox VM. So today I do a clean install of Windows 7 on my VM. Set up browsers, install extra software, etc... Then I tried to install the Directx End-User Runtime, but ...
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Run Win7 disk partition image with Virtualbox
So, i cat'ed my windows partition into a file (plain cat /dev/sdx > win7.bin).
mount -o loop -t ntfs mounts the image correctly and lets me read/write everything.
Now the question is: could i run ...
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VBoxVGA works, but VBoxSVGA for VirtualBox
I am trying to run Windows 7 as a guest in a VirtualBox on my Kubuntu 20.04 host. When I use VBoxVGA as graphic controller, this works. However, I would like to use 3d acceleration; thus, I need ...
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Is there way to create a virtual machine image from current machine?
I have a PC that has windows 7 installed and I'd like to upgrade it to windows 10. Since there is various old software installed in the current system, to prevent them from not running on the new ...
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Is it safe to change registry names from VBOX to something else in Virtualbox?
I'm trying to make a stealthy Windows 7 VM on an Ubuntu host but in the registry there are many keys and values which have "VBOX" written (see screenshot attached). Therefore, is it safe if ...
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Cannot copy large VirtualBox image from local NTFS disk
I have a large (15.7 Gigabyte) VM image that I want to backup from my laptop.
It resides on a NTFS partition (windows 7; 64bit).
When I'm trying to copy the file using the "Windows Explorer",...
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Error when creating W7 iso from disk - "access denied"
I need to create a W7 VM on Virtual Box. Virtual Box requires an .iso image of the OS to be installed.
To create the .ios image, ive loaded a W7 install CD i have into a USB CD enclosure (as i dont ...
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With mouse integration turned off, both my mouse and touchpad get randomly stuck on invisible randomly placed lines while in a guest OS?
I've had this issue with the same Windows 7 VM on two different host machines. Without any apparent rhyme or reason, regardless of whether I'm using my mouse or touchpad, the child-OS's cursor will ...
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Windows 7 stuck on loading screen
I am installing Windows 7 using UEFI in Virtualbox and it is stuck on the "Starting Windows" screen. When I used legacy bios, it works normally. What is happening and how do I get it to work?...
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Trouble resizing virtual box VHD disk
I'm new to VirtualBox and VMs in general. I need to resize my current disk from 32G to 60G so I can fit one last piece of software on it. My host is Windows 10 and my guest is Windows 7. This is the ...
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VBox, Win7 guest, Debian host, audio input not working at boot 99% of the time
People have been complaining about audio issues with virtualbox for ages. Crackling sound and similar audio output issues can generally be linked to the problem of having a precise clock despite a ...
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Can't ping default gateway (Gaia, Check Point) from Windows 7 machine in VirtualBox
I'm trying to set up a virtual network according to the topology in the CCSM Lab Setup Guide (Check Point training) with the following subset of VMs giving me trouble. All of this is being run in ...
