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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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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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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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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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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 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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Accessing gnome boxes image from outside?

On my Fedora 25 system I use gnome boxes for some testing with debian/dnscrypt/pi-hole. Here's my problem: The image is behind NAT. I can reach it with the host system but not with other computers in ...
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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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How to set network location for VirtualBox Host-Only Network adapter on Windows 8 between private/public?

I have configured a Windows Server 2008 guest on VirtualBox v5.0.10 on a Windows 8 host laptop. They work fine and ping each other on bridged mode, IP address are served by a wireless router. ...

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