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Accessing Localhost from Hyper-V VM

I currently have a PC running Visual Studio/IIS Express and I need to do some IE8 testing, which requires me to run a Hyper-V VM. When I go into the Hyper-V VM, I can't seem to go to reach http://...
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How can I troubleshoot VirtualBox port forwarding from Windows guest to Mac OS X host not working?

There is a plethora of questions about VirtualBox port forwarding problems but none with my specific details. Details of setup: I have a Windows 7 Professional 64bit install living in VirtualBox 4.1....
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Mac OS X Server 10.6.6 "disables" CPU in VMware Fusion

I installed Mac OS X Server 10.6.0 in VMWare Fusion the other night and it worked perfectly, until I ran Software Update. I upgraded to 10.6.6 through the combo updater, and now when I start the VM it ...
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Ubuntu VM hangs in VirtualBox under Window 10: "watchdog BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s"

This is Windows 10 with VirtualBox installed and Ubuntu virtual machine with Apache server. Often CPU hangs on the Ubuntu virtual machine, taking up to 50% host CPU usage with no response at all, when ...
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Qemu throws back error after i tried to use whpx acceleration (not sure if this the right community)

I am using qemu to emulate Zorin OS 16 (a hour old user of qemu) I tried to emulate Zorin OS 16 with whpx acceleration with this command in power shell: qemu-system-x86_64.exe -boot d -cdrom zorincore....
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Booting into UEFI shell with qemu

I've set up an environment in QEMU, but I'm having some troubles booting into the UEFI console. I'm running QEMU v 5.0.1 and am running Ubuntu 16.04 using edk2 for my UEFI environment with ...
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Installing Windows virtualization features within KVM virtual machine causes early-boot guest crash

See updates below for what I've discovered about the more general nature of this problem. I have a Windows VM running OVMF firmware with VFIO passthrough for a graphics card running on an Arch Linux ...
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How can I emulate Ubuntu 18.04 on MacOS using qemu?

How can I run Ubuntu 18.04 on my MacBook Air (Mojave) using QEMU? (yes I have to use QEMU for now.) I got QEMU from here. But also got it from Homebrew as well. I've tried looking at the QEMU's ...
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VM got 10.0.x.x address instead of 192.168.x.x address?

I've searched the similar question (and prepared to be downvoted too). I'm new to virtualbox, and I have Ubuntu-server-VM (with guest addition installed) run on my Windows-10-Host using VirtualBox-5.2....
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No DHCP Reply on bridge with QEMU and TAP interface

I have a host machine running a virtual machine with QEMU and i want the DHCP server on the host providing an IP address to it. I am using static ethernet addresses for the guests, so i start them up ...
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Is there any way to type the clipboard to the guest in VMware

Similar to this question for VirtualBox: How do you auto-type the contents of the clipboard from the host into a guest Virtual Box instance? Is there any way to type the contents of the clipboard to ...
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Boot a physical disk with EFI in VirtualBox Ubuntu 18.04 host

I used to use legacy BIOS booting on this machine to dual-boot Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10 across three hard drives. I used GRUB to boot to Ubuntu on an SSD and HDD combo and Windows 10 on it's own ...
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Docker for Windows unresponsive after restarting VM

I've installed Docker for Windows on my Windows 10 machine, which uses Hyper-V. The default VM that gets installed is the MobyLinuxVM. To change some settings, I shut down and restarted the VM. But ...
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KVM switch switches automatically on VirtualBox usage

I am using KVM switch Multico EW K1904U. The problem is that it confilcts with Oracle virtual box somehow. Particularly, if I am terminating virtual machine on computer 1, it switches to computer 2 (...
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Linux windowed GPU passthrough

I've read that GPU passthrough on linux (ubuntu/mint) is possible with the correct types of hardware. I'm looking for a specific use case of passthrough and I'm wondering whether technology has ...

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