Questions tagged [virtualbox]
VirtualBox is Oracle's virtualization software for Intel and AMD. It allows running of Linux and Windows on a Intel Mac under OS X. It does not work on a Apple Silicon Mac.
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Need to set up Time Machine for 2 MBP to a Windows server - need help
While I've researched and found some answers about similar setups, none have really touched on using a full-on Windows server (Dell PowerEdge R730xd attached to a Dell PowerVault M1200 that houses 9 (...
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Any free VM's for Apple Silicon MacBooks? [closed]
I hope to run Windows XP and similar versions of Windows that don’t support Apple Silicon, either virtually or through an emulator layer.
I tried VirtualBox, but it says "Intel Core needed". ...
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Cannot use Apple services after installing MacOS in Windows with Virtualbox
I wanted to delve a bit into developing apps in Swift and wanted to try to install MacOS in my Windows laptop. I got the image and managed to install it but the problem I am facing is that I cannot ...
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Mac M Series Host Only Network with VirtualBox
Has anyone been able to find a workaround to run a Host Only Network on Mac M Chips?
I am trying to run a OVA file on VirtualBox using a Host Only Network so I can set up a server for this class that ...
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Nested virtualization on a macOS host
I'm currently running a Linux VM on my Mac using VirtualBox. I'd like to set up another nested VM inside my Linux VM, also using VirtualBox. However, the option to Enable Nested VT-x /AMD-V is greyed ...
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Virtualbox on Intel Mac Mini does not detect VT-x
I am running VirtualBox VM 7.0.12 r159484 darwin.amd64 (Oct 12 2023 20:27:35) on Intel Mac Mini:
Model Name: Mac mini
Model Identifier: Macmini8,1
Processor Name: 6-Core Intel Core i5
Processor Speed: ...
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Run Windows 11 under Linux on an iMac 2012
I am booting in Linux on an iMac 27" from 2012. I wanted to install Windows 11 in VirtualBox, but that does not work.
I gave it 2 CPU's, 8 GB mem and 80 GB hdd space.
In VirtualBox I get the ...
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External DVD player not showing up in Finder
I have a MacBook Air running Ventura. If I plug in an external DVD player, the DVD player light blinks but the DVD doesn't show up in Finder. The DVD and player work on my other MacBook running ...
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How to install linux guest OS on Apple M2 silicon (Ventura OS)? [duplicate]
I have a 2023 Macbook Pro with Apple M2 silicon. I am trying to install Debian 11 as a guest OS, but keep getting the error that "No bootable medium is found." I am mounting the arm64 .iso ...
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Can't run Olarila Ventura on VirtualBox [closed]
I'm trying to run Olarila Ventura on VirtualBox but I get stuck on this.
I have done these commands on cmd as an admin
CD "C:\Program Files\Oracle\Virtualbox"
VBoxManage.exe modifyvm "...
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Is it possible spin-up an Ubuntu VM using Virtual Box with the new ARM-based CPU?
Is it possible to spin-up an Ubuntu-based VM on an Apple Silicon MacBook Pro?
I found a jammy-desktop-arm64.iso file on this link and tried it but I was unable to make it work (as per this post).
I've ...
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Seagate USB cannot connect to Ubuntu Server VirtualBox in Retina MBP 2015
Lately I've gotten inspired to practice some self-hosting, and my old Early 2015 MBP isn't doing anything while selling for practically no benefit to me. I want to grab a spare Seagate hard drive and ...
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Virtualbox more than twice as slow on Ventura
I have a virtualbox setup I was using on catalina. I finally got around to reinstalling the machine and updating to Ventura.
The test suite (running in an Ubuntu vm) has gone from 26 minutes to over ...
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How to implement a GUI based Linux (XUbuntu) linux on arm Mac M1 processor
I want to install a software which predominantly uses GUI, and is available across all the platforms.
Interestingly, this software does not function properly on the Mac M1 natively, even with Rosetta. ...
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Time Machine inside a virtual macOS installed through VirtualBox? I want to backup the virtual macOS, not the host macOS. Possible?
And then I want to do something even more voodoo. I want to take this Time Machine backup (from a virtual macOS) and install it on a real MacBook. Feels like it is going to explode, but maybe not.
My ...
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