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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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Trying to ssh into IPv6 address, getting "no route to host"

I have a home computer that uses Ubuntu 22.04, that I'd likely to remotely SSH into, from the internet. I'm trying to do this through its public IPv6 address. The address doesn't begin with fe80::, so ...
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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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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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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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Microsoft Remote Desktop - "Started Connecting, Giving Up"

My local machine is a Mac and I ran out of disk space on on my remote machine's "/dev/xvda1" filesystem. % sudo df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/xvda1 ...
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Ssh X11 forwarding messes up with default shell

I have a bash specific code in my bash profile: $ cat ~/.bash_profile #!/usr/bin/env bash echo "SHELL: $SHELL" function printfiles() { while IFS='' read -r _file || [[ -n "$_file" ]]; do echo ...
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What does it mean open mode in Virt-Manager?

Virt-Manager offers a network "open mode". Could you tell me what does it mean? For example: I use Fedora 26 with virt-manager 1.4.2
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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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GPG agent over SSH (with vagrant)

I'm using vagrant for building and signing my debian/ubuntu packages but I'd prefer to not have have to copy my GPG keys into the virtual machine just to sign packages. It just feels insecure. Is ...
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GPG Agent under Windows as SSH Agent for git bash

I'm trying to set up gpg-agent as the common authentication agent under Windows. It works fine for both Putty and regular gpg use, but now I'd like to use it as ssh-agent in git bash as well. From ...
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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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