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Ubuntu 18.04 freezes in virtual box on Windows 10 host

I run Ubuntu 18.04 on virtual box on Windows 10 host. If I open a few windows, watch a youtube-video or do anything that is the least bit heavy ubuntu freezes and the windows task manager reports ...
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Mouse pointer does not show on mouse entering/hovering/focus over hyper-v guest OS window

I'm running Hyper-V on a Windows 10 1703 system. My Virtual Machine guest operating system is CentOS 7.2 and is generation 2. I have integrated services installed (see image below). I have a four ...
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How to use a specified number of monitors in VMware Fusion in macOS

This has been asked many times before, with the solution being fairly straightforward (e.g. Settings > Display, etc). Currently, VMware Fusion 10 provides an option to use all monitors in fullscreen ...
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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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Recompiled QEMU with OpenGL, but virt-manager or libvirt tells me This QEMU doesn't support spice OpenGL

I wanna to use virtio-gpu according to this blog: https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2016/09/using-virtio-gpu-with-libvirt-and-spice/ I am using Debian testing, but QEMU in offical debian source is not ...
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How can I use macvtap for bridging to home wifi network?

I have Ubuntu 16 host machine with kvm/libvirt virtual machines. How can I bridge the virtual machines to my host's connected wifi network (my home wifi network)? I see people say something about ...
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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 update Hyper-V integration features in Fedora VM?

I have a virtual machine running Fedora 24 within Hyper-V on my Windows 8.1 physical machine. The summary panel on the machine says that my integration services need upgraded, but I cannot find a way ...
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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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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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VMware Player disables the numpad on the host

I have a Linux Mint host and a Windows 7 Pro guest OS in Vmware Player 12 with VMware additions are installed. Each time the mouse and the keyboard are "grabbed" by the virtual machine, at the moment ...
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802.1x with Hyper-V

We are using 802.1x authentication inside the corporate network. When I installed HyperV Virtual Switch on my machine to let the VM into the network, the host lost its network connectivity. I came ...
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Is it possible to have more than one screen in Parallels?

I use Parallels 10 on Yosemite. My hardware has one screen or two screens, depending on if I use the laptop and/or an external screen in combination. However, Parallels only recognises one screen: (...
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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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