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Vboxmanage resize HDD but not the real size? (CentOS Guest, Windows Host)

I have this situation. whereas the actual is 7.62 GB then i tried to execute the steps given from here Geekwebsite. to make it bigger to 14GB (which is 13.92GB) Everything smoothly working... until ...
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how do I ssh Linux VM over virtualbox from windows

I spin up a Centos7 virtual machine over Virtualbox and trying to access via ssh from putty over windows from another machine in a same network, below are the details of my VM: IP addresses: Windows ...
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CentOS 7 Virtualbox VM SSH Connection Suddenly Refused

I am new to linux and am working with a minimal CentOS 7 installation on a VM running on Virtualbox with a Win10 host. Up until today, I was able to use PuTTy and WinSCP to SSH into the VM from the ...
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How can I set a static IP address in CentOS 7?

I have a CentOS 7 Minimal VirtualBox VM that I would like to set a static IP address on. I want to assign the static IP address via a Bash script within the VM (so not using the VirtualBox network ...
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404 No input file specified. on VirtualBox, CentOS 6.5, Nginx

I have installed VirtualBox on my mac, and change the settings with VitualBox , Adapter 1 - Attached to: Host-only Adapter, Name: vboxnet0. and install guest addistions ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run ‘...
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converting .VDI to .VHD CentOS will not boot

I have a CentOS vm created in VirtualBox. I need to convert it to VHD to use on my hyper-V server. I used the vbox manage tool and the conversion went fine. When i try to boot it up with Hyper-V it ...
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CentOs stopped working after update in VirtualBox

I recently updated my OS to centOs 6.4 in virtual box. Before update I had guest additions installed and everything worked fine. The screen resolution all was fine. After update to 6.6, the OS stopped ...
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Can't login to CentOS desktop as root via GUI prompt

I have CentOS 6.5 running on a VM in VirtualBox (Windows host). I had no problems logging in as root from the GUI prompt (clicking on Other and typing root, then my root password and getting the ...
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Does a VirtualBox/CentOs need two adapters to work properly ?

I have a Windows 7, 32bit, HP Laptop. I have CentOs 6.5 running on VirtualBox 4.3.10. Here is my eth0 config. Code: #vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 HWADDR=08:00:27:81:0F:...
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DNSMasq Unable to Ping Remote Hosts

I have two virtual machines setup in VirtualBox. One is acting as a DNS server, and has two network adapters attached to it: Adapter 1: Internal Network (intnet) Adapter 2: Bridged adapter (wlan0) ...
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ifup, ifdown on centos 6.3 guest on virtualbox

On a Mac OSX I'm running virtualbox 4.2.16 with a centos 6.3 guest. On the centos guest when I issue ifdown eth0 or ifup eth0 I get: usage: ifdown <device name> Same thing with eth1. What am I ...
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My vbox shared mount will not auto mount and is only ready only?

My vbox shared mount will not auto mount and is only ready only? I am using scientific linux host and centOS guest and I am trying to share a folder I have in both accounts but the folder is only ...
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CentOS 6 does not show any desktop icons or anything in the panel

I was using CentOS 6 in VirtualBox fine for a couple of days. Now, when I login via the GUI user prompt, all I get is the background screen, no icons, no menubar, nothing. I am not terribly familiar ...
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Linux CentOS installation will not start in VirtualBox

I downloaded CentOS 8 ISO (That had dvd1 postfix). This is biggest image so I guess this has everything. I am installing this on VirtualBox 6.1, it boots up, I select install but all I get is this ...
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Cannot ssh and ping into my CentOS VirtualBox

I downloaded the virtualbox image from this website: https://www.osboxes.org/centos/#centos-782003-info I uses CentOS 7.8.2003 I am able to start the VirtualBox but I cannot ssh into it. Then, I ...
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