Unanswered Questions
4,619 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Is Xfce supposed to run slowly on Virtualbox?
I'm having problems getting Xfce systems on VirtualBox to run smoothly. What I mean by slow is that moving or resizing windows looks very "laggy" (basically just windows jumping from one ...
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Running Android Emulator with HAXM acceleration and VirtualBox in parallel on Windows
I am trying to understand if it is feasible to run the Android Emulator with HAXM-based acceleration and VirtualBox side by side on the same Windows host.
I have a Windows host running a 64 bit ...
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How to run a raw-disk Virtualbox VM when using UEFI?
I have a dual-boot setup on my computer with Windows 10 and Linux (Arch, if relevant). I'm trying to virtualize my on-disk Linux install in Windows (and plan on doing the opposite direction once I ...
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VBoxManage: error: Cannot read the partition information from '/dev/disk0'
I'm trying to make a partition .vmdk file for Virtual Box. Basically I want to boot my bootcamp partition box up in Virtual Box. But I get the following error when I try to make the .vmdk file
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Bad Block on Virtual Machine (Virtual or Physical Problem?)
I am dealing with a virtual machine that is receiving the following entry in the event log:
TIME OF EVENT: 7/30/2011 3:47:05 PM EVENT LOG: System EVENT
SOURCE: disk EVENT ID: 7 SEVERITY: Error ...
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Pass VirtualBox Guest connections through proxy
The computer is inside a company and only have internet access through proxy. I want the guest inside the VirtualBox to access the internet without changing anything in the guest. The host is Windows ...
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How to overcome VirtualBox 256MB limit of video memory
My host machine has a 2GB graphic card (GeForce GT740M) but VirtualBox allows me to use just 256MB of memory. Because I would use CAD applications on Win7 (Guest) I would like to have more memory to ...
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Make Genymotion use a host VPN
I'm using Cisco's AnyConnect to connect to a VPN using my Windows 8.1 PC. When using the Genymotion emulator, I would like it to use the VPN too. However, although having Internet access from the ...
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Using directory as initrd in QEMU
Is there a way to use a directory as initrd when booting QEMU?
I know how to use the -kernel and -initrd flags for QEMU to boot a kernel and initrd without needing to first create a bootable device ...
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rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks
I'm running many VMs using Virtualbox. These VMs use Debian 10.3 (the latest version). And I'm experiencing bugs / freezes as you can see below. It looks like this is happening on the VMs where I ...
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How to use Windows WSL to configure routing? Is this possible?
I noticed that IP forwarding appears to be enabled in WSL (Windows 10pro 1709), according to sysctl. I'm hoping I can use this to make a software router on WSL -- to play with Hyper-V VM traffic on ...
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Vagrant hangs on SSH auth method: password
I’m trying to load a VM via Vagrant. It’s my first time attempting anything like this.
I'm using Windows 10 64bit and trying to run my MS Server 2016 standard.
I created a new VM in VirtualBox and ...
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VBoxManage setextradata command does not add avx2 to /proc/cpuinfo
Linux & VirtualBox noob here, so please go easy.
I've been running into problems compiling code with scipy in a VirtualBox 5.2 VM running Fedora 26 on my host Windows 10. The cryptic error output ...
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comparing between two VM snapshots?
I already know some programs can compare between two snapshots but they only work on my real machine but I want to know how to know the difference between two virtual machine snapshots
Example :
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Virtualbox host io cache applying scenarios
Virtualbox docs says that using host io cache for sata controller may be a risk of system performance.
At the same time, on my case I see advantage of using host io cache - DisckCrystalMark reports ...
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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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Migrate Azure VM (domain joined) - another storage account
I have an Azure LAB with DC running on a VM on Azure, call it "DC1". There is a VM joined to the domain say "VM1".
I stumbled across the post to migrate Azure VMs between storage accounts -> Here
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Vagrant virtual machine automatically halting when laptop is put to sleep
I’m using a Vagrant box (running in VirtualBox) I got from a third party and it always automatically shuts down when I put my MacBook Pro to sleep. When I wake up my laptop I need to run vagrant up to ...
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virtualbox windows 10 guest stuck at low resolution on ubuntu host
I am running Ubuntu 14.04 as a host and Windows 10 as a guest in Virtual Box. I used Windows 8.1 as the operating system type when I set up the box. Windows 10 runs fine. I was able to install Guest ...
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Is it possible to run Corona SDK on ReactOS or Wine?
I dumped Windows, I'm now using Xubuntu. Is it possible to run Corona SDK on Wine? On Corona forums, they say no, but I wounder how this guy did it? Is ZeroBrane a solution?
What about ReactOS (or ...
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VirtualBox not allowing me to modify IPv4 Network Mask?
I use Oracle VM VirtualBox to run a web server on my machine. I had it set up and working perfectly for a while. For the past few months it's been prompting me to update, and I finally gave in and ran ...
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Why is virtualbox networking using virtio slow (bridged and host-only, Debian)
I'm currently installing a VirtualBox Server using Debian for Host and Client. I experience some trouble regarding network performance and CPU load especially using host-only networks and I've no idea ...
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How to launch multiple instances of VM image in VirtualBox?
I would like to configure a machine image with all the bells and whistles and then be able to launch multiple instances of it in VirtualBox. However, it allows me to launch only a single instance of ...
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Mac 10.8 Guest Multiple Monitors in Virtualbox
I've done a bit of searching and cannot seem to find an answer to my question.
I have Mac OS X Mountain Lion guest installed on a virtual machine using Virtual Box with a Windows 7 host. I've found ...
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How do I create a hardlink in guest user in virtualbox
Apparently, VirtualBox does allow to create hard and soft links inside guest os on shared folders . Now the thing is I need to install a package that is creating hard links
Hardlink("lib/abc", "/...
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Win7 VirtualBox Server with TeamCity keeps BSODing
I'm testing out TeamCity with a small project (one checkin per day or so, small code base) on a Windows 7 VM in VirtualBox. I've had many successful VMs on this host, some of which were also Windows ...
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Emacs hangs for seconds when writing file, to do with kjournald and VirtualBox
I run
GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
of 2010-12-12 on brahms, modified by Debian
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Linux version 2.6.32-5-amd64 (Debian 2.6.32-34squeeze1) ([email protected]) ...
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How do I make VirtualBox's vboxnet interface show up in the OS X network configuration GUI?
I'm willing to do any amount of frobbing of settings in .plist and .xml files to make this work.
The scenario is this:
I have a nice Android based phone. The phone can do USB tethering. OS X 10.6 ...
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Unable to install WSL on windows 10 running inside virtual box
I have followed the exact steps of installing WSL on windows 10 guest OS running on virtual Box.
I installed Ubuntu from Microsoft App store. But when I click on Launch I get the
following error -
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How tu run Android Generic System Image (GSI) on qemu-aarch64?
Android GSI contains a system.img and a vbmeta.img. I tried qemu-system-aarch64 system.img -machine virt but qemu simply hangs.
If we can directly run the offical pre-built android image, creating an ...
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How is WSL 2 different from a Virtual Machine?
According to the announcement:
WSL 2 uses the latest and greatest in virtualization technology to run its Linux kernel inside of a lightweight utility virtual machine (VM). However, WSL 2 will NOT ...
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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 ...
