Unanswered Questions
8,102 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Can't drag-drop from Windows 10 to Ubuntu VirtualBox machine
Trying to drag/drop (or copy/paste) files or folders from my Windows-10 (x86-64) machine to an ubuntu VirtualBox machine. It does not work.
My VirtualBox version is: 5.1.26 r117224. Guest machine is ...
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Periodical performance drops and high HDD usage Windows10
Usually my system performs fine. However, periodically, there are temporary performance drops. Basically the Task Manager shows 100% HDD usage and the culprits invariably turn out to be system related ...
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macOS 10.13.1 High Sierra Disk Space iMac
I cannot determine what could possibly be taking up so much of my 1TB startup disk.
I have moved most applications to another disk and moved home directories and still receive your disk is almost ...
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Extremely high modified memory usage and pages won't flush
My Lenovo Y50-70 machine suffers of extremely poor performance lately.
I'm disturbed by some memory-related issues. The machine has 8gb RAM and the pagefile size is currently 24gb ("Autmomatically ...
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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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What is the meaning of COMRESET failed?
Laptop's internal WD SATA HDD of 1 TB is not being detected from any OS. It does not have any physical damage.
However while booting to linux from another disk, log is printed
[ 6.397803] ata5: ...
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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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Need to reconnect power supply to boot windows 8.1/10
Please let me know if it is offtopic here. I am facing some hardware problem may be that's why I am posting it here
I have a desktop pc with dual boot(ubuntu14.04 and windows 10).
Motherboard: intel ...
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Can I mark an entire partition as "bad sectors" to prevent a device from formatting the whole thing?
Update: My HDD did not support HPA. All well, I'll just stick to using it as a true external drive with folders for both PS3 and Xbox.
I have a large HDD that I'd like to partition and use half on my ...
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How to read MacBook Air (2013) SSD via PCI card adapter from Windows?
I purchased an adapter which connects my MacBook Air (2013) SSD to PCI-E of motherboard.
However, I was unable to find a proper way to read it, even with MacDrive.
What I want to do is back up the ...
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Size on disk way bigger than expected
I have read Why is there such a big difference between "Size" and "Size on disk"? but why is mine so different?
My RAID5 is set at 128kb stripe, the volume is formatted at 64kb NTFS. I would expect ...
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How Can I List Which Processes are Using a Specific Disk in Ubuntu?
How can I list which process(es) are using a specific disk in Linux?
I'm trying to track down what is writing to my hard drive, because I'd like to move the process's stuff to my SSD so that my hard ...
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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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