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Multi Machine Vagrant Setup Only Creates One VM of Two
The below VagrantFile should create 2 VM's, however when running vagrant up only 1 VM goes up (this appears to be semi randomly selected between the 2). After whichever VM goes up first, I get a ...
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Accessing symbolic links in VirtualBox
How can you access files in folders that are links, on a shared folder in VirtualBox?
For instance, I've got a folder named
/home/mrlister/misc
on my host computer, which is shared as /media/...
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Not able to install Windows 10 on oracle virtual box
I have installed ORACLE virtual box in Windows 7 machine and created a VM for windows10 technical preview with the following settings:
Guest:
iso: Windows10_TechnicalPreview_x64_EN-US_9926
Machine ...
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VirtualBox Ubuntu webserver 404 error on one host but works fine on other hosts
I have prepared a VM webserver with Ubuntu server to allow a client to view his 2 retired websites on his PC.
The host is Windows, the VM is configured with port forwarding, and this all worked ...
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Taskhost Process has high CPU when using VirtualBox
I am running a Ubuntu VirtualBox-VM on my Windows 10 host machine.
After the VM is running for some time (not at the beginning), the process taskhostw.exe uses much of the CPU. I normaly use ssh to ...
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VBoxManage gives error importing appliance
I was following along in a RHCSA labs course and ran into the following error I can not seem to get past. I know someone else who successfully ran through the installation so I am curious what is ...
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Windows 10 install: 'Something went wrong'
I'm trying to install Windows 10 Home using VirtualBox on my Mac (although I shouldn't think the issue will be Mac related).
I think I've installed it anyway, but whenever I start up the machine it ...
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Virtual Box Windows 10 VM, Make VM undetectable
So I've made a Windows 10 virtual machine in Virtual Box. I'm trying to make it so that it can't be detected that I'm actually running a vm, mainly by just a person looking through the device manager. ...
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Is update to Windows 10 FCU frozen or just taking too long?
I have a VirtualBox VM with Windows 10 that I only use every few weeks. I checked for updates today, and among other things asked me to upgrade windows saying it would take a long time. I decided to ...
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How can I recover my Mac when I leave the focus within a VM?
I have had this happen a few times.
I am using a Windows VM on my Mac, I am working within my Windows Vm (via VirtualBox, fullscreen), leave it for a few hours, come back, and then my Mac is ...
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How to Mount Guest DOS OS with HOST OS.?
I am newbie to VM concept. actually i have installed DOS6.22 under virtualbox and using 32bit windows 7 OS as HOST Operating System, now i want to copy some folders/files from HOST OS to DOS6.22 Guest ...
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Swapping from Windows 7 to Ubuntu (host) and Windows 7 VM on same hardware
This may have been asked elsewhere, but it always seems to be unclear about whether they are staying on exactly the same physical hardware.
I have Windows 7 32bit with lots of programs installed (inc ...
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How to execute command on host machine in Virtualbox
My guest machine is Ubuntu 14.04 and my host machine is Windows 8.1.
I need to execute a command coming from Linuxmachine on Windows.
What is the best idea to do that? If my host was also Linux, I ...
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Error when starting VirtualBox (Unable to load R3 module)
I'm aware this question has already been asked, but the answer points to a website that is currently down and is relevant to a VirtualBox version that's old and irrelevant to my version/problem. I'm ...
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Exposing an USB device directly to a Virtualbox guest
I have an virtualBox VM with a windows guest system (Windows XP 32Bit). The Host is also a Windows (Windows 7 64Bit).
Normally I just want to use known usb devices (which are known by my host and ...
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