Unanswered Questions
8,101 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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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What exactly happens when you "mount" a drive?
What underlying things happen when you mount a drive. Even when a drive isnt mounted, it is visible to the computer (such as sudo fdisk -l / diskutil -list). When a drive is mounted, is all that is ...
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It it possible to make windows 7 not detect/spin up my secondary hard drive after resuming from sleep?
I only use it once a month for backup and don't want it spinning up/becoming active needlessly. I use Hotswap! to spin it down and making it disappear from my computer/device manager so it can't be ...
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PC won't boot from flash drive after computer hibernated (grub on hdd corrupt too)
I had 3 OS installed: Windows 7 , Fedora 17 and Mageia 2 in my Acer Aspire 4253 laptop.
I deleted the partition of Mageia and my grub got corrupted.
I didn't have an installation DVD of either Win7 ...
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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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Does TrueCrypt work on systems where the user data has been moved to a seperate disk from the OS?
I have a desktop computer with a small SSD and a large hard drive... as a result, I have installed my windows OS on the SSD but have moved all user data and programs to the hard drive except for "...
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Windows SuperFetch service for SSD + HDD mixed systems
The guides are floating around the web stating that Windows 7 automatically disables SuperFetch if it finds that disk is SSD.
However, my SSD is only 60GB, and I still have 3 TB of storage on HDDs ...
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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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Hard drive causing BSOD
I've come across a problem after building my new PC and installing a clean Windows 7.
I originally planed on a RAID 1 or 0 but after further research I decided against it.
So I was left with two 1TB ...
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